The Bayero University Kano (BUK) is a university situated in Kano,Kano State,Nigeria. It was founded in 1975,when it was renamed from Bayero University College and upgraded from University College to University. It is the first university in Kano State,North-western Nigeria.
Mahmud Tukur was a Nigerian politician and former Minister for Commerce and Industry during the military administration of General Muhammadu Buhari. He was the first indigenous Director of the Institute of Administration,Congo,Zaria. He took the mantle from Professor Professor Sam Scruton Richardson in 1967,until 1975 when he became the first Vice Chancellor of Bayero University,Kano. Tukur's enviable position and competence displayed as the Vice Chancellor of Bayero University increased his public profile in Northern Nigeria. He became friends with contemporaries such as Mamman Daura,Adamu Ciroma,Hamza Rafindadi Zayyad to form a small clique of policy advocates in Northern Nigeria. He died on April 9,2021,at the age of 82 years.
Ibrahim Khalil Umar was a Nigerian scientist and university administrator. He was Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University,Kano,Nigeria from 1979 to 1986. He holds a B.Sc. in physics and mathematics from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria,Nigeria,a M.Sc. in physics from Northern Illinois University,USA and a Ph.D. (1974) in physics at the University of East Anglia,United Kingdom. In 1976 he became the first Nigerian academic in physics to teach at Bayero University. In 1978 he served on the national constitutional assembly that drafted the Constitution of the 2nd Republic.
Abubakar Sani Sambo is a Nigerian Mechanical engineer,former Director-General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN),Chair of the Nigerian Member Committee of the World Energy Council (WEC),Africa Region and former Vice-Chancellor of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University,Nigeria.
Muhammad Yahuza Bello is a Nigerian mathematician who served as the 10th vice chancellor of Bayero University Kano.
Fatima Batul Mukhtar is a Nigerian academic,a professor of botany and the current Vice Chancellor of Azman University Kano. Her research interest are centered on "growth regulation,biostatistics,biotechnology and plant conservation". she was appointed Vice Chancellor of Federal University Dutse by President Muhammadu Buhari. she served between 2016 and 2021.
Abubakar Adamu Rasheed,MFR is a Nigerian academic,administrator,Professor of English and the 9th vice-chancellor of Bayero University,Kano.
Mohammed Sanni Abdulkadir is an academic and is the 4th Vice Chancellor of Kogi State University. Mohammed was appointed by the Governor of Kogi State,Capt. Idris Ichalla Wada to take over from Prof. Hassan S. Isah.
Mustapha Ahmad Isa is an Academician and is the 2nd substantive Vice chancellor of Yusuf Maitama Sule University,Kano. Mustapha served for good five year 2015 to 2020 who was succeeded by Professor Mukhtar Atiku Kurawa.
Sunusi Mamman was the vice chancellor of Umaru Musa Yar'adua University from 2017 to December 15,2022. His appointment as the university's substantive vice chancellor came after the tenure of Professor Idris Isa Funtua expired. Professor Sunusi Mamman was once the acting vice chancellor of the university from February to June 2015 and the deputy vice chancellor (administration) of the university from 2014 to 2016. A professor of special needs education with special interest in cognitive exceptionalities. His reign as acting vice chancellor was characterised by massive structural development which gave rise to the utilisation of the 2013 Needs Assessment funds of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (tetfund) that financed for the constructions of additional male and female hostels,Post Graduate Students Hostel and other developmental structures. He also introduced several constructions in all the five faculties of the university. He sponsored academic and non-teaching staff to pursue higher degrees in many universities at home and abroad thereby boosting the workforce in the university.
Dahiru Yahaya was a Nigerian academic,educator and historian,who was professor of History,and head of the History Department of Bayero University,Kano.
Mukhtar Atiku Kurawa is a professor of Inorganic Chemistry,Nigerian academic,administrator,and the former Rector of Kano State Polytechnic,the 3rd substantive Vice Chancellor of Yusuf Maitama Sule University,Kano.
Jibril Isa Diso was a Nigerian academic from Kano State. The country's first blind professor,he served as an adviser to Governor of Kano State Ibrahim Shekarau.
Kabiru Bello Dungurawa is a Nigerian academic,administrator,and the Rector of Kano State Polytechnic.
The 2015 Kano State gubernatorial election occurred on April 11,2015,to determine the governor of Kano State,Nigeria. APC candidate Abdullahi Umar Ganduje won the election,defeating PDP Salihu Sagir Takai and other candidates.
The Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) is a public research university located in Zaria,Kaduna State,Nigeria. It was opened in 1962 as the University of Northern Nigeria. The university has four colleges,three schools,18 faculties,110 academic departments,17 centres,and seven institutes with over 600 professors,about 3000 academic staff and over 7000 non-teaching staff. The university has over 400 postgraduate programmes reflecting its strife to become a postgraduate studies-centred university. The university operates from two campuses in the ancient cosmopolitan city of Zaria,the Samaru Campus where the Senate Building and most of the faculties are located and the Kongo Campus,hosting the faculties of Law and Administration. It has been adjudged to be the largest university in Sub-Saharan Africa,in terms of land occupied,owing to the numerous buildings it has.
Bello Bako Dambatta is a Nigerian chemist and university administrator. He served as the vice-chancellor of Bayero University,Kano from 1995 until 1999.
Abdullahi Baffa Bichi is a Nigerian academician and politician who served as the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund TETFund from 2016 to 2019. He was also appointed as the Secretary to the State Government of Kano State in 2023 by Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf.
