Hardworking Final-year Medical Student Who Turned Street Food Vendor During ASUU Strike Dies

CURSORY: The death of Usman Rimi, a Medicine and Surgery final-year student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, UDUS, who turned into a street food vendor due to the prolonged ASUU strike, has been confirmed.

Usman Rimi, a Medicine and Surgery final-year student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, UDUS, who turned entrepreneur during the strike is dead.

During a recent NAN interview, the young food vendor revealed that the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) afforded him the opportunity to begin the endeavour, adding that he utilized the period of the COVID-19 lockdown to start an egg and chicken distribution business, from which he created a food vending business.

After a successful food-selling business that he opened in the Diplomat area in Sokoto, Rimi died on Wednesday, October 12 after a brief sickness, Daily Nigerian reports.

Rimi’s death was confirmed on Saturday, October 15, by the chairman of 21st Century Entrepreneur Hub, Umar Idris, one of the deceased’s associates.

Having actively coordinated Global Entrepreneurship activities in 2019 and 2020, Rimi was in charge of the Young CEOs Meetup in Katsina, the largest CEOs gathering in the state from 2019 to 2020.

As Idris recalled, during Rimi’s leadership, the 21st Century Entrepreneurs Hub in Katsina empowered about 1,000 women and youths with various business skills.

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