Sagir Adamu Abbas is a professor, Nigerian academician, administrator, and 11th substantive

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Bayero University Kano 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 ...

Early life and education

Sagir was born on April 22,1962, at Yan Katifa, Kantudu Madabo quarters of

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Kano State Kano State (Hausa: ''Jihar Kano''جىِهَر كَنوُ) (Fula: Leydi Kano 𞤤𞤫𞤴𞤣𞤭 𞤳𞤢𞤲𞤮𞥅 ) is one of the 36 states of Nigeria, located in the northern region of the country. According to the national census done in ...

Career

Abbas started his career as a lecturer at Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education

Kumbotso Kumbotso is a Local Government Area in Kano State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Kumbotso. It has an area of 158 km and a population of 409,500 based on the 2016 population projection. The postal code A postal code (also ...

, in the Department of Mathematics. Sagir Joined

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in 1991. Sagir held some positions from Head of Department of Education, Sub-Dean, Deputy Dean, to acting Dean, Faculty of Education. Sagir was appointed Director of Development Office where he served between 2004 and 2007, Sagir Abbas was appointed Senior Special Assistant to the former Minister of Education, Professor

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between April 2010 to September 2013. Sagir was the Director, Directorate of Research, Innovation, and Partnerships. The Governing Council of

appointed Sagir on Thursday, 26 March 2015 as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academics where he succeeded Professor

Hafiz Abubakar Hafiz Abubakar (born 25 November 1954) is a Nigerian politician, academic and a professor of nutrition science at Bayero University, Kano and he was the deputy governor of Kano State between 2015 and 2018. Hafiz was sworn-in as the deputy govern ...

, who was the running mate of Governor

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in the

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. Sagir Become the 11th Vice Chancellor of

in 2020

Achievement as Vice chancellor

Under the leader of Sagir Abbas the 11th vice chancellor Bayero university Kano state, BUK have made a lot of achievements one and has been ranked higher in international standard with various Awards.And under the leadership and the

vice chancellor A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system. In most Commonwealth and former Commonwealth nations, the chancellor is ...

of the great citadel of knowledge, BUK student were Hired to work part time as students in the school community. part of the part time job is to monitoring the school facilities, cleaning of the school environment and they are getting paid for this at the end of the month. under is watch as a vice chancellor of the university, Bayero University was rank among the best universities in the sub Saharan northern university in Africa. On the 22 of July which is the 56th university congregation meeting, Sagir Abbas the vice chancellor announced to the entire staff both teaching and non teaching, about the millions of naira that has been allocated as

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in other to ease the current situation that is faced by many,due to the increments in petroleum and the registration. He also affirm that there will be non interest loan available to the staffs.

References

1962 births Living people Alumni of the University of Bristol Academic staff of Bayero University Kano Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian universities {{Nigeria-academic-bio-stub