Ibrahim Umar
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Ibrahim Khalil Umar is a Nigerian scientist and university administrator. He was Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria from 1979 to 1986.[1] He holds a B.Sc. in physics and mathematics from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, a M.Sc. in physics from Northern Illinois University, USA and a Ph.D. (1974) in physics at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.[2] In 1976 he became the first Nigerian academic in physics to teach at Bayero University.[3] In 1978 he served on the national constitutional assembly that drafted the Constitution of the 2nd Republic.[4]
Between 1994 and 1997, Umar served as Sole Administrator of the Federal University of Technology, Minna.[5]
He represented Nigeria at the Executive Assembly of the World Energy Council from 1990. He was a member of the Nigerian delegation to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference from 1989 and was appointed Director-General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria in 1989. He served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the IAEA for 2000–2001.[2] In 2004 he was the Director of the Centre for Energy Research and Training, where the first Nigerian research nuclear reactor is located.[6]
In 2007, he was on the international advisory committee for the international workshop on Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development in Africa, held at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in Nigeria.[7]
Honour[edit]
As one of the former Vice chancellor of Bayero University Kano state a lecture Twin theatre was name after him at the university old campus along Biochemistry department Road.
Death[edit]
On the 30th of January 2023 his son Faruk Ibrahim Umar announced his death.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ History of Bayero University Archived 2008-01-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b International Atomic Energy Authority Archived 2007-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Kano Elders Forum appoints Professor Ibrahim Umar as new chairman". Daily Post Nigeria. 2014-12-27. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
- ^ fnge; Dantiye, Halilu Ibrahim; mni (2014-12-27). "Kano Elders Forum Appoints Prof. Ibrahim Umar As New Chairman". PRNigeria News. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
- ^ "Our History". www.futminna.edu.ng. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
- ^ Nigeria launches 2 nuclear reactors Archived 2007-10-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Renewable Energy Conference Archived 2009-06-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Former BUK VC, Prof Umar, is dead". Daily Trust. 2023-01-30. Retrieved 2023-07-13.