A Nigerian final year medical student at the Zaporizhzhia State Medical University, Ukraine, identified as Uzaifa Halilu Modachi, has died a few weeks after arriving in Nigeria.

Modachi who was said to have been preparing for his final-year medical examination at the university was one of the 40 students recently evacuated from Ukraine to Nigeria due to the ongoing war between the country and Russia.

The family of the deceased said Modachi arrived Nigeria two weeks ago after living in Ukraine for three years without returning home for vacation. He has since been buried in Sokoto state.

The father of the deceased, Habibu Modachi, who is a serving member of the Sokoto State House of Assembly wrote:

“Alhamdu Lilah, God gives and take away life, and that’s how he wanted it to happen, there is no doubt about it.

Had it been he died in Ukraine so many things would be said about him, that he was either killed by the Russian bombardment or had an accident or even accidentally shot and killed by the Ukrainian Army.

We are grateful to God for having him die before us, we also thank the Nigerian government particularly Sokoto state for taking a hasty decision to evacuate them before the full escalation of the War in Ukraine.”the distraught father said