OBITUARY: Akin Mabogunje, geographer of many firsts who was instrumental to mapping of FCT

On Thursday, it visited Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje, Nigeria’s foremost professor of geography, leaving his admirers in grief. He was an icon whose intellectual contributions have shaped the development of geography not just in Nigeria, but also around the world.

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