Prof. Dahiru Yahaya: A Renowned Teacher of Teachers
Prof. Dahiru Yahaya was a respected scholar, academic and distinguished Abusite who was the first person to be honored with a Festschrift in Bayero University, Kano.
Professor Dahiru Yahaya was born on 30th June 1947. He attended Dawakin Kudu Junior Primary School and Wudil Senior Primary School in 1960. He had School Certificate Education at Birnin Kudi Secondary School, Kano in 1965.
He received Bachelor of Arts degree in History (Special Hons) at Abdullahi Bayero College, ABU in 1970 and had his PhD at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.
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Professor Dahiru Yahaya was a true definition of what a scholar is. An academician who spent more than half of his life contributing to academia. He was a scholar, with many publications to his name and is the first person to be honored with a Festschrift in Bayero University, Kano.
Mallam Dahiru reads in more than ten languages. When he wanted to read German works he learnt Germain. To read french philosophers Prof. Dahiru went France and learnt French. He moved to Spain and learnt how to speak Spanish. He became curious of Turkey and Ottoman Empire so he learnt Turkish.
Prof. Dahiru is multilingual who speaks many local Nigerian languages and reads in many foreign ones. He cultivated Arabic, English, Hausa, French, Spanish and Turkish as research languages.
His record of employment started from working as Social Welfare Assistant under the Northern Region Government Kaduna, Administrative Officer, Kano State Government and the joined University system from 1970 up to date.
He attended many International conferences and contributed to Higher Education, National constitution development and government policy. He earned many awards both from within and outside the country.
He chaired Bala Usman’s position at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. Mallam Dahiru wrote many research papers, books, articles and pamphlets.
The Renowned scholar and distinguished Professor died in February 2021 at the age of 75 after a brief illness leaving behind three wives, twenty-two children, many Grandchildren, and relatives.
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