Ibrahim Adamu Kolo | |
Office2: | Vice-Chancellor of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University |
Term Start2: | January 2010 |
Term End2: | 2015 |
Successor2: | Muhammed Nasir Maiturare |
Office1: | Provost of College of Education Minna |
Term Start1: | 2001 |
Term End1: | 2010 |
Successor1: | Farouk Rasheed |
Birth Name: | Ibrahim Adamu Kolo |
Birth Date: | 29 October 1956 |
Birth Place: | Mokwa, Niger State, Nigeria |
Nationality: | Nigerian |
Children: | 4 |
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Ibrahim Adamu Kolo (29 October 1956 – 3 November 2018) was a Niger academic. He lived in Mokwa Local Government Area of Niger State.
He attended UMCA Primary School and St. Johns Anglican primary school. He went to high school in the Government College Bida and earned his advanced degrees from the College of Education in Sokoto, Bayero University, and University of Jos.[1]
He was a lecturer in Faculty of Education, Bayero University Kano. He served as Provost of Niger State College Of Education, from 2001 to 2010.[2]
He served as Vice Chancellor Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, from 2010 to 2015. Commissioner for Higher Education Peter Sarki announced Kolo's appointment as Vice Chancellor, emphasizing the need to sanitize the university and repair administrative decay.[3]
Kolo died in Minna at age 62 after a brief illness.[4] General Ibrahim Babangida described Kolo's death as "“a great loss to the Niger State education sector and Nigeria as a whole".[5]