NJODI, Prof Ibrahim Abubakar

Services) in 2010 and ultimately Vice-Chancellor from June 2014 to date, therefore becoming the first and second alumnus to serve in these capacities respectively. As a refined administrator par excellence, his outstanding qualities have not gone un-noticed. He has been awarded several professional fellowships and awards; even from his home front, he is seen as a remarkable achiever in his native Kaltungo chiefdom. He was deservedly decorated with the traditional title of “Dan Rimin Kaltungo”, because his dexterous works have had a great impact from all and sundry. Ultimately, the highly revered Shehu of Borno has also awarded him with the traditional title of Shettimallmube of Borno. He has accomplished a wide varieties of achievement in just few years at the saddle in the university of Maiduguri, he has ensured smooth academic programmes on campus, he embarked on building new structures and rehabilitated old buildings to improve infrastructures, even in the face of dwindling financial budget accruable to the university. He explored viable investment mechanisms which has yielded great result in other to achieve set goals in projecting the citadel of learning into a first-class university not only in northern nigeria, but africa at large. He also scored highly in the area of staff refresher courses and re-training programmes to maintain and sustain academic prosperity amongst the staff in continuation of their quality impactation on students in the university. Ibrahim-Njodi has become a reference point for other university administrators that have allowed challenges battling their universities to over-whelm them to see the pictures clearer that there is light at the end of the tunnel after all. If only they could imbibe and formulate top-notch policies that could bring their projections and blue-prints for success to the fore. Little wonder, accolades keeps pouring from far and near for this sagacious administrator, a scholarly icon