Ishaya Audu, The First Professor of Medicine from Northern Nigeria

Ishaya Audu as young physician, 1957.

Ishaya Audu, Hausa-Christian, served as the first indigenous vice-chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria  for nine years (1966–1975) and was the first medical professor from Northern Nigeria.

President Shehu Shagari and Sir Ahmadu Bello both had Audu as personal doctor.

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