James Nwoye Adichie, first Nigerian Professor of Statistics and father of renowned novelist, Chimamanda is dead.
The academic who celebrated his 88th birthday on March 1 reportedly died last night.
The Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) hailed from Abba, Njikoka local government area of Anambra State.
Adichie was a member of International Statistical Institute (ISI) since 1978 and member, Governing Council of (ISI) 1985-1987.
He became a Professor of Statistics in 1976 and had lived in Nsukka since he retired.
An Awka-based media consultant, Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, wrote on the demise of this illustrious son of Anambra State: “It’s so hard to take that Chimamanda’s beloved father, Professor James Nwoye Adichie, Nigeria’s first professor of statistics, has joined the ancestors at 88.”