محمد يوس سكر(المدير المؤسس لجامعة النيل)
Professor of Physiology Borne in Wadi Halfa 1935, of a father who is of Nubian extraction who was born in Dammar and a mother, although she was born in Wadi Halfa, her family originated in Aswan . Elementary education: ‘Kuttab’ Abdul Rahim then Wadi Halfa Elementary School in Tawfiquia which is the ‘Town Centre’, the village where my father originated from is Adendan and later settled in Sheikh Ali just north of Dabarousa, Wadi Halfa. Life in Wadi Halfa had a great impact on the gift of a happy childhood with great variety shuttling between town and village life on the bank of the Nile; rich with agricultural activity and extremely colourful and stimulating to the imagination. Intermediate education: Kosti Al Ahlia Al Wusta. I lived in Kosti from 1946 to 1951. During this period my father worked for Sudan Railways as the Kosti District Civil Engineer; which afforded me opportunities to travel frequently by rail from El Obeid to Sennar-Hag Abdalla. This section is the Kos...