ABU ❖Notable Alumni❖ Nigeria can be proud of them!

Ahmadu Bello University notable alumni! Who are they? Their names are widely known. ABU and Nigeria can be proud of them!

Every tertiary education institution should be proud of its graduates, especially if they have reached a certain success in life. These alumni can be prosperous businessmen, political and public figures. After all, the success of Alma Mater graduates is an achievement of the educational institution. So, the knowledge, skills, and abilities given by such university or college during the educational process are of a high level. That’s why the graduate can achieve a high career results. Ahmadu Bello University is not an exception on the list of the universities with a high number of notable alumni.

Ahmadu Bello University

The University was founded in 1962 with the help of the Northern Region of Nigeria at that time. Nowadays it is one of the largest and the most authoritative Universities in Nigeria and even in Africa.

It has twelve Faculties, eighty-two Departments, twelve Research Institutes, and Centres. ABU gives undergraduate and postgraduate education in a plenty of specialties. Among them are technical, humanitarian, and medical faculties

More than 800 thousand alumni have graduated from this institution since it existed

ABU notable alumni

Among the graduates of ABU, there is former President, Umaru Musa Yar'adua. Three Vice Presidents graduated from this University: Oladipo Diya, Atiku Abubakar, and Namadi Sambo. One speaker was also a student of ABU Zaria.

Also two first ladies: Turai Yar'adua and Aisha Buhari studied in ABU. The following famous alumni are Chief Justices of Nigeria: Alouysius Katsina-Alu, san, Idris Legbo Kutigi, san, Dahiru Musdapher, san. In the list, we can mention three Secretaries of the Federation Government: Gidado Idris, Mahmud Yayele Ahmed, Babachir David Lawal. Moreover the Service Federation Head, Doctor Danladi Irmiya Kifasiwas was a student of ABU too.

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A lot of the current and former Governors were also ABU alumni:

• Nasir Ahmad El-rufai

• Abdullahi U. Ganduje

• Samuel I. Ortom

• Umaru T. Al-makura

• Ibrahim H. Dankwambo

• Ibrahim Geidam

• Badaru Abubakar

• Darius Ishaku

• Muh'd A. Abubakar

• Simon Lalong

• Ahmad M. Makarfi

• Ibarhim S. Shema

• Donald Duke

• Patrick I. Yakowa

• Isa Yuguda

• Danbaba D. Suntai

• Mukhtar R. Yero

• Bukar A. Ibrahim

• Ibrahim N. D. Gari

• Mohammed Bawa

• Adamu A. Muazu

• Ibrahim Shekarau

• Umaru Yar'adua

• Barnabas Gemade

• James B. Ngillari

A range of Ministers are the graduates of ABU:

★ Aisha Jummai Alhassan;

★ Muh'd Bello Adoke;

★ Jerry Gana;

★ Shamsudeen Usman;

★ Rilwanu Lukman;

★ Nenadi Esther;

★ Maryam Ciroma;

★ Umaru Dembo;

★ Nasir el-Rufai;

★ Samuel Ioraer Ortom;

★ Darius Ishaku;

★ Ruqayya A. Rufai;

★ Ibrahim Shekarau;

★ Hadiza Mai-Lafiya.

At the same time there are plenty of professors with their Academic degree from ABU:

★ Professor Ayodele Awojobi, (UNILAG);

★ Professor Ibrahim H. Umar, former VC BUK and VC FUTMinna;

★ Ussif Rashid Sumaila, an economist;

★ Professor Isa Marte Hussaini, Pharmacology;

★ Doctor Aminu Safana, a neuro-surgeon;

★ Professor Abdullahi Mustapha, a pharmacist;

★ Professor Andrew J. Nok, a biochemist;

★ Professor Ibrahim Garba, a geologist;

★ Professor Ango Abdullahi, Chairman ACF, an agronomist and former VC;

★ Professor Lawal Khalid, CMD ABUTH.

This list is not complete. Many more respected people in Nigeria are the graduates of Ahmadu Bello University. If you choose the this institution you have all the chances to be one of the people whose names are familiar to everybody.

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