BY EDMOND ODOK – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Abdurrazaq Abubakar Nakore as the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of Yusuf Maitama Sule Federal University of Education in Kano.
A statement on Wednesday by the Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, said also named as the Vice Chancellor of the university is Abdullahi Tukur Kodage.
A Professor of engineering and a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Nakore was the former the Secretary of the Rural Electricity Board in Jigawa state.
On his part, Kodage is an academic whose discipline is focused on curriculum and teaching.
He has conducted study on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Educational development through the utilisation of mobile phones in distance education in Nigeria.
Tinubu also named Professor Yahaya Isa Bunkure as the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Education, Zaria, Kaduna State.
Bunkure, a renowned academic specialising in science education is currently the Vice Chancellor of Saadatu Rimi University of Education in Kano.
He holds a Master’s degree in Science of Education from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria and bagged his PhD from the same university in 2012.
The statement conveying the appointments further stated thus, “The Federal University of Education, Zaria, and the Yusuf Maitama Sule Federal University of Education, Kano, were among the four Colleges of Education upgraded into full-fledged universities between 2022 and 2023.
“In accordance with the institution’s governing laws, the pro-chancellor will serve a term of four years, while the Vice-Chancellors will serve for five years.”
