First president of NANS Prof Obumselu dies at 86

 The first president of the Association of Nigerian University Students (now NANS), died at the age of 86, Prof Ben Obumselu is died, He graduated from the then University College, now University of Ibadan alongside late Bola Ige, Chief Emeka Anyaoku and late Gamaliel Onosode

Obumselu, born on September 22, 1930, was a formidable academic and a fine scholar through his long and distinguished life.

He got a doctorate from Oxford University before returning to Ibadan in the 1960s to lecture.

Ben Obumselu was one of Emeka Ojukwu’s closest advisers, playing a key role in the 1968 Ahiara Declaration.

After the Civil War, he lectured at the Sorbonne and held the Cadbury Fellowship at the University of Birmingham.

He retired from academia in 1988, becoming a prominent leader of the Ohaneze Ndigbo.

Prof Ben Obumselu is survived by his widow, Mrs Fidelia Obumselu, his first wife, Mrs Christine Clinton-Obumselu, eight children and several grandchildren.