Dr Mahmud Tukur: Tribute to distinguished accomplishment
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Tue Apr 13 2021
‘In the end, it is not the years in one’s life that count, but the life in one’s years—’ Abraham Lincoln
The limited space available here is certainly not enough to describe the late Dr Mahmud Muhammad Tukur, a Nigerian politician and former Minister for Commerce and Industry during the administration of General Muhammadu Buhari.
Tukur, who belonged to a small clique of policy advocates in Northern Nigeria, died on April 9, 2021, at the age of 82 years. He has since been buried in Yola, Adamawa State.
Dr Tukur was the 1st indigenous Director of the Institute of Administration, Kongo, Zaria. He took the mantle from Prof. S.S. Richardson in 1967 until 1975 when he became the first Vice-Chancellor of the Bayero University Kano.