Iya Abubakar

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Iya Abubakar
Maitama Bello Yusuf
Succeeded byAli Baba
Federal Minister of Defence
In office
24 October 1979 – January 1981
PresidentShehu Shagari
Preceded byOlusegun Obasanjo
Succeeded byAkanbi Oniyangi
Director, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
In office
1972–1975
Personal details
Born
Iya Abubakar Belel

(1934-12-13) 13 December 1934 (age 89)
Belel, Northern Cameroons (now in Adamawa State, Nigeria)
Political partyPeoples Democratic Party (since 1999)
Other political
affiliations		National Party of Nigeria (1979–1983)
SpouseUratu Balla
Alma materUniversity of Ibadan
ProfessionMathematician, professor, politician

Iya Abubakar (born 14 December 1934) is a

Nigerian Second Republic, and Senator for Adamawa North from May 1999 to May 2007.[1]

Birth and academic career

Iya Abubakar was born in

Ph.D. in applied mathematics and theoretical physics from Cambridge University, becoming the first person from the Northern region of Nigeria to receive this degree.[3]

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.[4] 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. However, following the Ali Must Go student protests of 1978, the Supreme Military Council forced him to resign from his position.[5]

Abubakar was a director of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 1972 to 1975.[6]

Political career

After the military government relinquished power in 1979, kickstarting the Nigerian Second Republic, Abubakar joined the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in 1978, and was appointed National Vice Chairman representing Gongola State.[7]: 257 [8]

After

nuclear capability, Nigeria should, of necessity, endeavor to acquire it at any price."[9][10][11]

In January 1981, Akanbi Oniyangi succeeded him as Defence Minister.[12]: 251 [13] However, he was reinstated as Minister of Internal Affairs by Shagari.[12]: 301 

From 1993 to 2005, Abubakar was the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council of the University of Ibadan. In the late 1990s, he served as director of the National Mathematical Centre at Abuja and chaired both the National Manpower Commission of Nigeria and the non-governmental Africa International Foundation for Science and Technology.[6][14][15]

Abubakar was elected Senator for the Adamawa North constituency of

People's Democratic Party (PDP) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999.[16]
He was reelected in April 2003.[17] After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999 he was appointed to committees on Public Accounts, Banking & Currency (chairman), Commerce and Finance & Appropriation.[18] Abubakar has also chaired the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriation[19] and the Senate Committee on Science and Technology.[20][21][22]

Personal life

Abubakar is married to Uratu Balla, the first female doctor from Northern Nigeria.[23][24] She is the daughter of the 20th-century left-wing politician Yerima Balla.[25]

Bibliography

  • Abubakar, Iya (1961). "Disturbance due to a line source in a semi-infinite transversely isotropic elastic medium". Geophysical Journal. 6 (3): 337–359.
    doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.1962.tb00356.x
    .
  • Abubakar, Iya (1962). "Motion of the surface of a transversely isotropic half-space excited by a buried line source". Geophysical Journal. 7: 87–101.
    doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.1962.tb02254.x
    .
  • Abubakar, Iya (1962). "Free vibrations of a transversely isotropic plate". Q. J. Mech. Appl. Math. 15: 129–136.
    doi:10.1093/qjmam/15.1.129. Archived from the original
    on 2015-03-09.
  • Abubakar, Iya (1962). "Scattering of plane elastic waves at rough surfaces. I". Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 58: 136–157.
    S2CID 119683267
    .
  • Abubakar, Iya (1963). "Scattering of plane elastic waves at rough surfaces. II". Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 59: 231–248.
    S2CID 251097465
    .

References

  1. ^ Ibrahim, Abubakar Adam (2019-12-15). "Senator Iya Abubakar at 84". Daily Trust. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  2. ^ Great Britain. Colonial Office (1958). Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations on the administration of the Cameroons under United Kingdom trusteeship. Wellcome Library. London : H.M.S.O. p. 220.
  3. ^ a b "Northerner Awarded Ph.D." Federal Nigeria. V (6 & 7). Lagos: 14. June 1962.
  4. ^ "Iya Abubakar". Mathematicians of the African Diaspora. Retrieved 2010-06-23.
  5. ISSN 0026-4695
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    ISBN 1-59691-218-9
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    ISBN 978-978-175-006-9
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  8. ISBN 978-0-8419-0712-6
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  9. ISBN 978-0-300-02820-1
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  10. ISBN 978-0-86543-650-3
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  11. ISSN 0002-0397
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  12. ^ a b n/a (1982-01-01). Nigeria, A Country Study (Area Handbook Series). Headquarters, Dept. of the Army.
  13. JSTOR 40174640
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  14. ^ "NMC Abuja". www.nmcabuja.org. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  15. ^ "NMC Abuja". www.nmcabuja.org. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
  16. ^ "FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 20 FEBRUARY AND 7 MARCH 1999". Psephos. Retrieved 2010-06-23.
  17. ^ "Senators". Dawodu. Retrieved 2010-06-23.
  18. ^ "Congressional Committees". Nigeria Congress. Archived from the original on 2009-11-18. Retrieved 2010-06-23.
  19. ^ Hallah, Tashikalmah (April 16, 2003), "Nigeria: Iya Abubakar Predicts Boom for Adamawa", Daily Trust.
  20. ^ Idris, Hassan (September 10, 2003), "Nigeria: Senate to Sign IT Policy Bill Soon - Prof. Abubakar", Daily Trust.
  21. ^ Hassan, Idris (September 10, 2003). "Nigeria: Senate to Sign IT Policy Bill Soon - Prof. Abubakar". Daily Trust. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  22. ^ Admin (2018-02-26). "ABUBAKAR, Prof. Iya". Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
  23. ^ Admin (2016-12-01). "BALLA, Dr. Uratu Yerima". Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
  24. ^ Abubakar, Abdullahi Tasiu (2013-12-29). "A memorial for Yerima Balla - Daily Trust". Daily Trust. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
  25. ^ Giginyu, Ibrahim Musa (2017-12-09). "I was virtually smuggled to Germany to study Medicine - Dr. Urwatu Balla - Daily Trust". Daily Trust. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
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