In the cause of his education, he obtains General Certificate of Education (GCE) 1979, Ordinary National Diploma (Business Administration) 1984, Higher National Diploma (Business Administration) 1987 and Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Science 1997.

Employed by Federal Ministry of Agriculture in 1980, he was granted scholarship and proceeded on Study leave between 1983 – 1988. After his studies, he had worked in various departments of the Ministry of Agriculture between 1988 and 2001.

He was thereafter posted to Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, Abuja in 2001 before he eventually retired as the Head of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development in 2015.

Presently, Mr. Hassan is self-employed and working as Consultant on ICT.

A very active member of the Third-Estate Forum of Ilorin Emirate, his hobbies include Volley Ball, Reading, Table Tennis, Travelling and Farming.

A respected communication expert, Dr. Yahaya had a working experience as a journalist when he was appointed Editor IlorinWatch, Ilorin between January 1988 to December 1990. He was also a Senior Political Correspondent with Post Express Newspaper, Lagos between April 1995 – February 1997.

In January 1991 he was appointed Public Affairs Officer I at the National Population Commission, Abuja, Nigeria and rose to the position of Deputy Director, Information, Education November 2010.

Dr. Yahaya served as Part-time Lecturer – National Open University, Abuja Study Centre, from 2009 to 2016; National Expert Media Specialization, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Nigeria Democracy Governance for Development project from November 2010 to December 2012 and Assistant Political Analyst, European Union Election Observation Mission (EUEOM) in 2015.

He is currently Senior Electoral Administration Expert European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES) since September 2017 to Date. He has wide experience in sustainable capacity building, knowledge management, experience sharing and engagements and trainings for electoral stakeholders.

He belongs to various professional bodies including Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (Abuja Chapter), PRNigeria Network, an online interactive forum for PR Professionals; Nigeria Political Science Association and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).

He has been the Secretary-General of the Third-Estate Forum of Ilorin Emirate.

He attended Government High School, Ilorin, Kwara State where he obtained West African School Certificate (WASC) before proceeding to Ahmadu Bello University for Bachelor of Arts Degree in History in 1984. He also obtained Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in 1996 and Bachelor of Laws (LL.B Hons) in 2002 from the same university. He was at Nigeria Law School Bwari and was call to the bar in 2004.

He has worked in the public and private sector for 33 years rising to the position of Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Crittall-Hope Kaduna Ltd in 2013.

He has also served on the Boards of various companies as Company Secretary and Director acquiring extensive boardroom experience over time. Some of the positions he held included Commissioner, Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Co-operatives Kwara State 1998 – 1999; Chairman, Laekmind Investments Ltd, Kaduna; Director, Crittall-Hope Kaduna Ltd, Kaduna; Director, Woodkraft Industries Ltd, Kaduna; Chairman, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Kaduna South East Branch; Member, Governing Council, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria; Board Member, Kaduna State Water Corporation; Member, Tripartite Committee on the Review of the Minimum Wage.

He belongs to several professional bodies. He is Member, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), International Bar Association (IBA), Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) and a Fellow Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria and Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered).

For Postgraduate Programmes, he obtained Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria in 2003 and Master of Science Degree in Forensic Accounting and Criminal Investigation (Msc) from St. Monica University, Yaounde Cameroon in 2015. His Msc Project is title The Effects of Capital Structure on the Performance of Selected Nigerian Banks

He also obtained Certificate in Proficiency in International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria 2012

He belongs to relevant professional bodies. He is a Fellow, Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA); Associate, Chartered Institute of Taxation (ACTI) of Nigeria and Fellow, Certified Forensic Investigation Professionals (FCFIP) from the International Institute of Certified Forensic Investigation Professionals
He started his working experience with Olusola Adekanola & Co. Chartered Accountants Professional Accounting Firm as a Tax Consultant in Auditing, Tax and Management Consultancy between 1988 to 1991 . He was also at Merril Guaranty Trust Ltd, a Finance House for Management Information Service between 1991 and 1994.

He later moved to the public sector in 1994 as Internal Auditor at the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) where he is currently an Assistant Director.

Born on August 10 1962, Ahmed Bolaji Nagode the current President of Third-Estate Ilorin Emirate Forum, attended United Primary School, Ilorin, 1969 – 1974; Government Secondary School, Ilorin 1974- 1979 and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1979 – 1984 and University of Ilorin 1989- 1991. Some of his academic qualifications includes Diploma in Management, Bachelor of Science (B.SC) Political Science, Master of Public Administration (MPA) and University of Lagos.

After the completion of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Benue State, he was employed by Kwara State Education Management Board in 1986 and became Personal Assistant to Hon. Commissioner of Education in the state.

He later had a brief stint as a Lecturer, Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin 1992. It was in 1993 that he got federal appointment as Manager (Personnel and Administration). It was at the electricity company that he got rapid promotion up to the position of Assistant General Manager (Learning & Performance Management) 2009.

Mr. Nagode was later appointed Deputy Director (Training Programme) National Power Training Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN) in February 2013 and became Director (Business Services) in February 2014- 2016. He is currently the Acting Director General NAPTIN since 2016.

Apart from speaking on Human Resources Management as Seminars and Workshop, Ahmed Nagode is a full Member, Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (IPM) and Chartered Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM).

He joined the services of the Board as an Administration Officer I, in the then Department of Matriculation and Examination between 1989 – 1991 from the Federal Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, between 1991-1994 he was an Assistant Registrar in the Office of the Registrar; he became Senior Assistant Registrar between 1994-1996; Principal Administrative Officer between 1996-1997, Assistant Chief Administrative Officer between 1997-2000 and Chief Administrative Officer between 200-2004 all in the Office of the Registrar.

He became a Deputy Director in 2004 still in the Registrar’s Office until he was transferred to Test Administration Department in 2013 as an Acting Director before his recent elevation to the post of the Director of Test Administration Department.

Dr. Lawal, as the Director of Test Administration Department has brought new zeal to the Department and transformed its operations. He is a witty goal-getter, who has demonstrated good leadership and his presence on the Board’s Management team is a great asset to the Board. He is a Member, Institutes of Management Consultant and Member, Institutes of Management.

He has attended Trainings, Workshops and Conferences both locally and internationally.

When Bilikis Rafiu was with her parents as a young lady, she thought life would be bed of roses for her, unknowingly to her, she would end up as a vulcanizer.

Even though, her uncle whose name was not disclosed is also into the job, but as a woman, her thought was to be an hairdresser, and petty trading to survive.

Like a destiny which follow all human being irrespective of challenges, Bilkis Rafiu later got married to her uncle’s apprenticeship Aremu Olaitan Rafiu few years ago. Bilkis Rafiu, a 35-year-old from Oke Oyi, Ilorin East Local Government, Kwara State happened to be the only female vulcanizer in Kwara State.

She was sighted by our correspondent along Oke-Adini, Kulende area in Ilorin where she was displaying her skills which people generally believed is being done by men on a daily basis.

The mother of four children revealed that her parent could not send her for formal education because she was raised up in a polygamous family in which she was compelled to start selling sachet water, snacks, soft drinks on the streets in other to raise money to assist her mother as the trend in many Nigerian States.

Recalling how she started her adventurous life before delving into vulcanizing work, Bilkis Rafiu revealed that she was an apprehentice in Lokoja, Kogi State under her elder sister who had a saloon in which she served for almost ten years.

“I never believed that I would go into vulcanizing work as a woman, but when I came back from Lokoja where I had served under my sister, I met a man who is my current husband and he introduced the work to me,” She said
Bilkis Rafiu after she had developed interest for vulcanizing, she accepted to learn the work which only took her six months for her to be perfect.

Throughout the period in which Bilkis Rafiu was learning this trade, she did not pay any money to Aremu Rafiu Olaitan who she eventually got married to.

“Then, I used to observe how my husband do his work, and I used to see how many motorists used to patronise him in which I later developed interest for the job.

“I approached him if I could be under him, and I even thought that he would scold me, but he accepted me and encouraged me not knowing that he would later become the father of my children,” she said.
Even though, Bilkis’ parents were unable to send her to school, her father was been nonchalant, but her mother kicked against what she chose to do as a means of livelihood.

“My father has many wives, so he does not care about anyone, but my mother was against this job when I started as she claimed that the work is meant for men.
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“The third day when I started learning this work, I had a serious cut in my left hand when I was trying to remove a tyre from the rim, and it took me three weeks before the wound healed up.

“After recuperating, I told my mother that I would go back to vulcanizing work, and to my surprise, she agreed since that was what I wanted,” she explained.

After a while, Bilkis Rafiu decided to start the vulcanizing work at the front of the house where she and her husband lives and she revealed that she never regretted learning the work.

“When I started this work on my own on full time basis, a lot of people were asking me the reason why I decided to be a vulcanizer, and what I told them was I wanted something different as a woman.

“There are so many ladies who are into tailoring, hair dressing and so on, but I thought this work would bring a lot of sales for me considering my status as a woman and I am happy up till now because I make up to Five thousand naira everyday from this job.

“Even my husband who also has his own shop does not make the sales I use to make here and for the past five years that I have started this work, I have never had any cause to regret doing this job,” she stressed.
When asked whether she would love any of her children to also go into vulcanizing, she said: “Me and my husband are using the money we are making to send our children to school since we never had the chance to go, but all our children will also know how to do this but it is not necessary that they practice it.
Challenges

Bilkis Rafiu said some male customers do assault her sexually claiming that some men would seek for her phone numbers after she might have done the job brought to her. Sometimes, she said she would receive strange calls to come over to hotel.

“There was a man who collected my phone number after I had repaired his car tyres and he later called me to come over to meet him in an hotel, I realised he was into another thing, and I told him not to call me for such illegitimate act again.

“So, that are some of the challenges I do receive on this job, but I am not bothered because life itself is a challenge,” she said to NAIJ.com.

Bilkis Rafiu stressed that she earns a minimum sum of N5,000 on daily basis, some part of the realised funds were normally used to take care of her children, savings, and to also attend to all other needs.

“I am happy doing this job because I use to make at least 5,000 naira daily which is alright for me rather than going into labouring work that could attract assault.
Husband’s Reaction

Mr Aremu Rafiu Olaitan, a 40-year-old who is from Ilorin said that his wife has being a fortress for him adding that he had never regretted marrying her.
“Some people do abuse me that she was doing the job so that I can’t marry second wife, but I thank God that we are able to cater for our children, planning ahead for our family.
“Today, I have two motorcycles and I don’t care what people are saying again, after all, I am able to discharge my responsibilities as husband in my extended family and I have never owed anyone.

“Every morning, I use to go to my own stand, and my wife would be at home to do her work and also to cater for the children and prepare our home needs, I support her chosen career, and I am happy she is doing well for herself and the family,” he explained.
Customer’s Remarks

A motorist Rasak Akinola who came to repair his tyre as at the time when NAIJ.com was speaking with Bilkis Rafiu, he said he was surprised to discovered a woman of her nature can remove car tyres, repaired it and re-fix it without much stress.

“This show that what a man can do, a woman can do better and I believe that there are many people that would share the same views with me on this,”.

Another customer named Wuraola Ajao, said she felt challenged when she saw Bilkis for the first time doing the work supposedly reserved for men.

“Since the first day I saw her, I have been patronising her anytime I have trouble with my tyres so as to appreciate her for what she does. Even sometimes, I do tell people about her.

A legal Practitioner, Barrister Lawal Akanbi while speaking with NAIJ.com disclosed that there was nothing wrong for any woman doing what people perceived to be men’s work adding that Bilkis’ trade is unusual as a woman.

“What matter most is that the job she is doing must be legitimate in which people can associate with in our community. We have seen women who assist their husbands in robbery, crimes, selling helms and at the end of the day, they endanger lives of their children. So, I believe she is not doing what is wrong.”

Source: NAIJ

AT the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, twenty years ago, in 1995, Hon. Justice Ibrahim Gambari, was officially instituted as the eleventh Fulani Emir of Ilorin. His Royal Highness came to the throne eminently qualified and prepared for the position. He was already a highly educated achiever who had a very modernising perspective and a cosmopolitan world outlook, because of an education, which took him to the best schools at home and abroad. He was an accomplished jurist who presided at the Ibadan Division of the Court of Appeal and had become a very influential member of the Nigerian elite.

Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu Gambari A man of many levels of friendship and interests, then Justice Gambari had been a member of the board of the Nigerian football federation and a lover of sports who played lawn tennis with a great deal of passion. He was for many years Ciroman Ilorin, and was clearly prepared for the next step to become Emir, which eventually came to him with the death of his Uncle, the tenth Emir.

HRH Ibrahim Gambari ascended the throne at a point of very fast-paced changes in the world, in Nigeria and inside Ilorin town. The political situation in the country was very tense, against the backdrop of the annulment of the June 12, 1993 elections; the national resentment in the aftermath; return of military dictatorship and the years of the struggle for democracy with a rejection of the entire authoritarian baggage of military dictatorship.

Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari had to combine a modernising vision with a deft ability to preserve the very best elements of the fast eroding traditional values in a community that was similarly undergoing remarkable changes. And in the past twenty years, Ilorin has undergone tremendous changes: there is the incredible demographic revolution, as in all of Nigeria, where the community’s population has become very, very young.
The educational campaigns of the past couple of decades have collectively led to an explosion in schools attendance in the Ilorin Emirate. This is an Emirate that combines an increasingly populated urban complexity with a rapidly decaying, often restive rural component, where there is also a growing consciousness of self.
The return to civil rule in 1999, led to the reopening of old fissures within the subsoil of Ilorin history, which tested very severely, the relationship between the new civilian government of the late Governor Muhammed Lawal, and the Emirate structure in the city. Two of the more resilient elements of the Ilorin identity won out in the long run; these were acceptance of the Emirate structure and fidelity to Islam, both of which were always interwoven in the Ilorin consciousness, and which have kept a community of multi-ethnic identities together, for over two hundred years.

The community, including and especially its elites, rallied around the Emir and on a note of near finality, the long-standing Saraki political machinery was finally able to ride on the back of the aspirations of the Ilorin people, to impose a stranglehold on the political, economic and even the cultural affairs of the Ilorin community, since 2003.

The past twelve years, since 2003, have been under the almost-total control of a family’s hegemony that has had a far more negative effect on the communal ethos of the Ilorin community, than at any other period in the past fifty-five years of Nigerian independence. At its heart, has been the institution of the Saraki personality cult, which reached even greater heights of absurdity, when the younger Saraki, Bukola, became the ultimate controller of politics; dispenser of fortune; the one that offers placements and sharply administers demotions within politics and the bureaucracy; and the ‘infallible godfather’ determining administration and application of state financial resources; and maybe, as people are now beginning to discover, the richest individual ever, in the community!

The majority of the people in the community,are the young who have grown into adulthood over the past twelve years; they only know the arrested development; governance-as-a-lie; deceit; hypocrisy; sycophancy; groveling surrender; abuse and violence associated with the dictatorial hegemony in the state today. Within this ambience, it has not often been easy even for our highly revered Emir, His Royal Highness (HRH), Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari,to operate with effectiveness, as the father of all.

Long before 2003, such outstanding sons of the community like the late General Abdulkareem Adisa, for example, gave a lot to the community, including the modern Eid praying ground; yet, even his name won’t be remembered in prayers in that praying ground today. The suffocating agendas of the hegemony have taken centre stage of community life, almost as if there was no community before the controlling political family came to Ilorin; and the hegemon’s pursuit of a personal political ambition today, suborns practically every institution of the Ilorin community, including even the values of the Emirate system. The overriding ambition of an individual portends great danger for future continuing cohesiveness in our community.

The huge population of young people in the community is unable to get meaningfully engaged in an economy that is barely functional. An entrepreneurial spirit has not flowered as much as could, because of the close control of finance within a narrow circle in the city and state. Politics is everything, since it seems to be the most ready way to find some amount of success, but not all can become commissioners; special advisers or assistants; there has therefore grown a huge reservoir of lumpen youth, employed as thugs and toughies, and are in the entourage of the political hegemony in the state. It is amongst these that come those used to snatch or stuff ballot boxes during elections or to administer violence against political opponents of the hegemony; and it is from amongst them that came those who went on a rampage of killings and destruction of property in Ilorin, a few months back.

There is also a structure of deepening religious fundamentalism within a section of the youth in the community. And the fact that there is generalised deepening of poverty in the community, which is the direct result of the hegemony’s mismanagement of state resources, has also played into the manipulative, divisive and often violent politics of the period since 2003.

The strongest current here has overwhelmingly been negative, yet those within the circles of the hegemony have built personal houses, petrol stations, hotels and guesthouses and event centres, as expressions of the crumbs they earned from groveling servitude to the hegemon. But the Emirate structure has over the past two hundred years provided an ambience of peace and general respect for diversity. Ilorin has therefore gained a lot of investments and an inflow of people fleeing more volatile areas of Nigeria.

The Emir of Ilorin consistently speaks for the maintenance of that unique aspect of communal existence and even the bleak picture associated with hegemonic politics has, thankfully, been unable to destroy the welcoming and generally peaceful nature of the Ilorin community. And as a state capital, Ilorin has grown as a seat of administration, centre of culture and learning with universities, colleges of education, polytechnic, Islamiyyas and Madrasas; shopping complexes, even vehicular gridlock on roads and other associated examples of the modernity, that Emir Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari has always wanted in the community.

Successes of sons and daughters: And the successes that many sons and daughters of the community have made in professions in many parts of the world are also a hallmark of the developments witnessed in the past twenty years in Ilorin. His Highness Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari has a lot to be happy about in his twenty years on our forefathers’ throne.

Going forwards, balancing the dialectic of Ilorin’s traditional ethos and the complexities of modernity, will continue to engage Emir Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari’s leadership acumen. He will also have to return to the starting point of being the father of all in the community. His Highness should re-invigorate the structures of leadership to ensure that he re-connects firmly with all of our people and the aspirations of all our elites, not just the interests and political ambition of the leading politician in the community today. The people need him as a rallying point as much as he needs the people’s love and loyalty.

That is our history! Happy Twentieth Anniversary! Allah ya ja zaminin Mai Martaba, Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari! Amin.

Since he took over as Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor AbdulGaniyu Ambali has been pre-occupied by two things: sustaining the high academic standards and maintaining a smooth calendar through concerted efforts and collaboration with every segment of the university community including lecturers, non-academic staff and students as well as the host community, Ilorin.

Prof. Ambali who made the remark when members of the Third Estate Forum paid him a courtesy call, said his priority was to sustain peaceful coexistence in the university and improve on the facilities and standards of the 38 year old institution.

Chairman of Third Estate Forum, Dr. Yusuf Lawal told the Economic Confidential that since his assumption of office as the Vice Chancellor Unilorin, Professor Abdul-Ganiyu Ambali has displayed exemplary qualities of a leader who is compassionate and responsive to the yearnings of the members of his constituency with impressive initiatives being undertaken to reposition the university to greatness.

A member of the academic staff also told the Economic Confidential that while Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) attempted to go on a strike, the University of Ilorin refuses to join, after a wide consultation between the Vice Chancellor, management, academics, students and the immediate community who believe that such actions could disrupt academic calendar, jeopardize the standard of education and the favourable rating of the university.

Born on November 29, 1957 in Ilorin Emirate of Kwara State, Abdul-Ganiyu Ambali has been a Professor of Veterinary Medicine since October 1995 after joining the academia as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Maiduguri in September 1982.

A former student of Government Secondary School, Jalingo, Taraba State, he attended Ahmadu Bello University, (ABU) Zaria where he obtained Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree in 1981. He later went to the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom where he obtained Master of Veterinary Science (M.V.Sc) in 1984 and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Veterinary Medicine in 1989.

Apart from attending various courses at home and abroad, Professor Ambali is a Fellow of the College of Veterinary Surgeons of Nigeria, Member, Veterinary Council of Nigeria, and obtained Animal License Certificates of Royal Veterinary College, London and Certificate on Fish Vaccination from Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences Cell Biology, The Netherlands.

As an academic, Ambali has received scholarships and fellowships in his field of study from government, World Bank, Wellcome Trust and Fellowship among others. He also received National Merit Award of Federal Ministry of Education, Nigeria.

He is a member of learned societies, which include Veterinary Council of Nigeria, Nigerian Society for Animal Production, the New York Academy of Science, the American Society for the Advancement of Science, European Association of Fish Pathologists, World Poultry Science Association, International Society for Food, Agriculture and Environment and Nigerian Society for Microbiology.

He had also held other academic positions including Head, Small Animal Clinic, University of Maiduguri Veterinary Teaching Hospital; Wellcome Trust Visiting Research Fellow, Royal Veterinary College, University of London and as External Examiner at various Departments of Veterinary Medicine in Nigeria’s universities. He was also Director, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Maiduguri;

Foundation Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ilorin; Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maiduguri; Chairman, Biological Garden Management Board, University of Ilorin; Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maiduguri, Chairman,

As a scholar he has written and published several articles in refereed Journals and is happily married with children.

SOURCE: Economic Confidential

By her appointment, Medinat Salman who teaches Mathematics Education at the university thus became the first female professor from Ilorin Emirate.

It was therefore not surprising when the Emir of Ilorin, Alh. Ibrahim Sulu Gambari, deemed it fit to organise a special prayer in his palace to mark Salman’s appointment.

The new professor of Mathematics was honoured by the Emir alongside the new Vice-Chancellor of UNILORIN, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali; and three other newly appointed professors who all hail from Ilorin Emirate; Professors Badmas Lanre Yusuf, Muhammed Mustapha Akanbi and Yusuf Adebayo AbdulKareem.

Speaking with LEADERSHIP SUNDAY shortly after the prayer session at the Emir’s palace, Professor Medinat Salman said that she has always prayed and worked hard to be part of the emirate’s success story. This determination she said spurred her to achieve the feat of emerging as the first female professor from the emirate.

She, however, disclosed that the achievement she has recorded and now being celebrated by friends and associates was not without encountering various challenges both at the home front and at her work place.

Salman added that her good intention to impart positively on the lives of others as well as being a good example to the womenfolk in the emirate has always been her drive right from her youthful age.

The female professor, who bemoaned the low rate of women acquiring education in the emirate, however, pointed out that though it is not easy combining career with the demands of duties at the home front but with hard work and commitment, one would scale through.

According to her, biologically both male and female are the same, even though man is the head of the family “but if you are determined whatever the men can achieve, as a woman you can also do it”.

“Even if it requires waking up in the midnight, one would have to do it so. I don’t believe that there is anything the female cannot do, we are only different structurally”.

In his remarks, the emir of Ilorin, Alh. Ibrahim Sulu Gambari said the recent elevation of five of his subjects at once was a rare feat in the history of Ilorin and therefore, it called for prayer.

Gambari, who expressed his joy at the achievements recorded by his subjects, sought Allah’s guidance and protection for them.

The chief Imam of Ilorin, Alhaji Mohammad Bashir Imam Solihu, who led the prayer asked Allah to endow the new professors all it takes to be successful in their new positions.

Before her elevation Salman, Medinat Folorunso was a senior lecturer in the department of Science Education and she is the Coordinator of Educational Technology Centre at the university of Ilorin.

She baged her B.Ed. Mathematics, Second Class Upper, from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1985; M.Ed. Mathematics Education, University of Ilorin, 1990; and PhD Mathematics Education, University of Ilorin, 1998.

Her research interests include Mathematics Education, Gender Issue in Mathematics and Science Education; Innovation in Mathematics Education in the Developing World.

Source: Leadership