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Iya Abubakar

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According to Wikipedia, Iya Abubakar is a Nigerian politician and mathematician who held multiple cabinet level appointments during the Nigerian Second Republic, and Senator for Adamawa North from May 1999 to May 2007. Birth and academic career Abubakar was born on 14 December 1934. He was educated at Barewa College, University College Ibadan and earned a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. He worked as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan in 1965–66, before being appointed as professor of mathematics at Ahmadu Bello University at the age of 28, in 1967. He held this position until 1975, as well as a visiting professorship at the City University of New York from 1971 to 1972. In 1975, he was appointed the vice-chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, a position he held until 1978. Abubakar was a director of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 1972 to 1975.

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