Meet Iya Abubakar, the first Northern-Nigerian to earn a PhD in any field.

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A First Class graduate of Mathematics at the University of Ibadan in 1957, Iya Abubakar is the first Northern-Nigerian to earn a PhD in any field when he earned it at the University of Cambridge at the age of 28.

At 33, he became the only Nigerian appointed as a Professor in the department of Mathematics at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

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At 37, Abubakar became the Head of Department, Mathematics/Computer Science of the University.
At age 40, the Adamawa-born egghead became the second indigenous Vice Chancellor of ABU, Zaria until he retired from academics at the age of 44 in 1978.

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