A final-year Medicine and Surgery student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS), Usman Abubakar-Rimi who ventured into food vending business due to ASUU’s protracted has died.
The death was confirmed to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday by the Chairman of 21st Century Enterprenuer Hub, Umar Idris, a close friend of the deceased. Abubakar-Rimi was said to have died after a brief illness.
He described the medical student as a modest person, a hardworking student, and a gifted entrepreneur. According to him, the deceased was Katsina State Coordinator of the 21st Century Entrepreneurs Hub, and actively participated in coordinating Global Entrepreneurship activities in 2019 and 2020.
He coordinated the Young CEOs Meetup in Katsina, the largest CEOs gathering in Katsina from 2019 and 2020, as well as several other workshops on skills acquisition.
He noted that during Abubakar-Rimi’s leadership, the 21st Century Entrepreneurs Hub in Katsina empowered about 1,000 women and youths with various business skills.
In an exclusive interview with the deceased on September 9, 2022, he said the prolonged industrial action embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) offered him the opportunity to start his food business.
He added that in spite of being a medical student, he had utilised the period of the COVID-19 lockdown to start a poultry, a chicken and egg distribution business.
Abubakar-Rimi had advised students to utilise their free time to engage in businesses, stressing that online services provided a lot of opportunities to leverage. Abubakar-Rimi had been buried according to Islamic rites.