birth_place citizenship awards nationality name birth_date article_title birth_name occupation
kogi state nigeria nigerian nnom and ofr nigerian francis idachaba december 4 , 1943 francis idachaba
 francis sulemanu idachaba economist educationist researcher
francis idachaba

francis idachaba , nnom , ofr -lrb- december 4 , 1943 - august 15 , 2014 -rrb- is a nigerian professor of agricultural economics , former chairman of the governing board of the nigerian national merit award and former vice chancellor of kogi state university .
he was the 1st vice chancellor of the university of agriculture , makurdi , a position he held for 8 years , from 1988 to 1995 .
