BUK promotes former ASUU president, 33 others to professors

The Governing Council of Bayero University, Kano (BUK) has approved the promotion of the former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Nasir Isah Fagge, alongside 33 other academic staff of the institution to the rank of professors, while 56 others are now associate professors.

The approval came at the end of the fifth meeting of the 14th Governing Council of the university held on Thursday, for the 2020/2021 academic session, the university’s official bulletin reported on Friday.

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The names of those who got promotions are contained in a  statement by the acting Director Establishment of the institution, Binta Yahaya Kofar Na’isa.

According to the statement, “Those promoted to the rank of Professors include the former President, Fagge who has is now a Professor of Nuclear Physics, Dr, Usman Ibrahim Abubakar (Professor of Media Studies), Dr. Ahmad Magaji (Professor of Hausa Culture) and Dr. Salihu Lawal, Dean School of Continuing Education as Professor of Islamic Studies.

“Others promoted for the 2021 session are Dr. Sani Malami (Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics); Dr Musa Njidda (Professor of Sports Management); Dr. Bello Ibrahim (Professor of Criminology and Security Studies); Dr Kabir Bello (Professor of Sociology) Dr Ya’u Musa Dantata (Professor of Special Needs Education Visual Impairment) as well as Dr. Aliyu Salisu Barau (Professor of Urban Development and Management) and Dr Ibrahim Tajo Siraj (Professor of Inorganic Chemistry).

“As for the 2021 promotion exercise for the rank of Associate Professors include Dr Bashir Aliyu Umar (Islamic Studies); Dr Hafsat Umar Abdullahi (Education); Nura Ibrahim (Information &Media Studies); Hadiza Jummai Ibrahim (Mass Comm); Maryam Umar Moukhtar (Mass Comm); Bala Boyi Bukata (Electrical Engineering); Mohammed Mamodu Maina (Agric and Environmental Engineering) and Abdullahi Yahuza Zainawa (Political st Science).

“All the appointments are with effect from 1 October, 2021.

“Other academics that got promoted to the rank of Associate Professors are, Dr Suwaiba Sa’id Ahmad, Director, Centre for Gender Studies (Science and Tech. Education); Dr. Kabir Bello Dungurawa, Rector, Kano State Polytechnic and Dr. Aliyu Dahiru Mohammed (Economics) among others.

“However, the following have their promotion to the rank of Associate Professors with effect from October 2020 and they are; Dr Ali Abdullahi (Agric Econs &Extension); Dr Auwal Sani Salihu (Psychiatry); Dr Zaharaddeen Garba Habib (Psychiatry) and Dr Musa Usman Umar (Psychiatry),” the statement explained.