{"id":22447,"date":"2018-03-23T00:21:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T23:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=22447"},"modified":"2018-03-25T23:01:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T22:01:25","slug":"dr-cecelia-kato-prominent-uniabuja-lecturer-dies-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/dr-cecelia-kato-prominent-uniabuja-lecturer-dies-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Cecelia Kato , Prominent UNIABUJA Lecturer Dies At 59"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Abuja (UNIABUJA) community in Gwagwalada, FCT was on Monday thrown into mourning by the sudden death of one of its longest serving lecturers, Dr. (Mrs). Cecilia Kato.<\/p>\n

Dr. Kato, 59, was a lecturer in the English and African Literature and Gender Studies departments.<\/p>\n

According to a statement from her family, the late Kato was a well-known writer and gender advocate, Christian leader and respected mentor to generations of her students past and present.<\/p>\n

Notably, Kato published collections of poems, including Desires, <\/i>and Victims of Love <\/i>in which she lamented the state of Nigerian,nay African women.<\/p>\n

She was equally renown as an impassioned and outspoken speaker in her various public appearances at religious and circular gatherings.<\/p>\n

Kato obtained degrees in English and Literary Studies from the University of Calabar and started her lecturing job at UNIABUJA (from where she also obtained her PhD) until her death.<\/p>\n

Dr. (Mrs.) Kato died on the morning of March 19 after \u00a0a brief asthmatic attack.<\/p>

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Reacting to Mrs. Kato’s sudden passing, one of her children, Miss Ndi Kato, a social activist, founder of the Dinidari Foundation and an upcoming politician, said “My mother was my heartbeat, my pillar, my rock. She taught me everything I knew and she was my role model.”<\/p>\n

“It’s a colossal loss,” said journalist and activist, Betty Abah, a younger friend of the deceased.<\/p>\n

“Mrs. Kato was the liveliest, the friendliest and most generous person you can find in any gathering. Her laughter and enthusiasm were quite infectious. And she was quite brilliant. As a fellow mentee of Prof. Ebele Eko, our former lecturer at UNICAL, I formed an enriching friendship with her which lasted more than 15 years. I will certainly miss her. Our world is certainly diminished with the sudden and untimely passing of this wonderful soul,” she added.<\/p>\n

Kagoro, Kaduna State-born Mrs. Kato will be buried on\u00a0March 28<\/span>.<\/p>\n

She was survived by four children and nine grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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