Abdalla Uba Adamu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Abdalla Uba Adamu

Nigerian academic

Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1956

Place of Birth: Kano, Kano State, Nigeria

Profession: academic

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Abdalla Uba Adamu (born 25 April 1956) is a Nigerian academic, educator, publisher and media scholar.
He taught media and science education courses in many Nigerian universities and around the world, including serving as a European Union Visiting Professor at University of Warsaw, Poland, in 2012, visiting professor, Rutgers University, New Jersey, and visiting professor, University of Florida in 2010.
Adamu holds double professorships in Science Education and Media and Cultural Communication, both from Bayero University, Kano, in 1997 and 2012 respectively.
Adamu was Fulbright African Senior Research Scholar in 1991, he is also the developer of ‘hooked’ Hausa language character font sets (? ? ? ? ? ?), which were not present at the advent of the Internet.
He is the current Vice-Chancellor of National Open University of Nigeria since 2016.