Iya Abubakar

Iya Abubakar
Maitama Bello Yusuf
Succeeded by	Ali Baba
Federal Minister of Defence
In office 1979–1981
Preceded by	Olusegun Obasanjo
Succeeded by	Akanbi Oniyangi
Director, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
In office 1972–1975
Personal details
Born	(1934-12-13) 13 December 1934 (age 89) Adamawa State, Nigeria
Alma mater	University of Ibadan
Profession	Mathematician (professor)/statesman

Iya Abubakar (born 14 December 1934) is a

Birth and academic career

Abubakar was born on 14 December 1934. He was educated at

. He worked as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan in 1965–66, before being appointed as professor of mathematics at Ahmadu Bello University at the age of 28, in 1967.^[2] He held this position until 1975, as well as a visiting professorship at the City University of New York from 1971 to 1972. In 1975, he was appointed the vice-chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, a position he held until 1978. Abubakar was a director of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 1972 to 1975.^[3]

Later career

After the regime of Lt-Gen.

, holding this office until 1982. From 1993 to 2005, he was the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council of the University of Ibadan. In the late 1990s, he served as director of the National Mathematical Centre at Abuja and chaired both the National Manpower Commission of Nigeria and the non-governmental Africa International Foundation for Science and Technology.^[3][4][5]

Abubakar Iya was elected Senator for the Adamawa North constituency of

He was reelected in April 2003.[7] After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999 he was appointed to committees on Public Accounts, Banking & Currency (chairman), Commerce and Finance & Approprition.^[8] Abubakar has also chaired the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriation^[9] and the Senate Committee on Science and Technology.^[10][11][12]

Bibliography

• Abubakar, Iya (1961). "Disturbance due to a line source in a semi-infinite transversely isotropic elastic medium". Geophysical Journal. 6 (3): 337–359.
  doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.1962.tb00356.x
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• Abubakar, Iya (1962). "Motion of the surface of a transversely isotropic half-space excited by a buried line source". Geophysical Journal. 7: 87–101.
  doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.1962.tb02254.x
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• Abubakar, Iya (1962). "Free vibrations of a transversely isotropic plate". Q. J. Mech. Appl. Math. 15: 129–136.
  doi:10.1093/qjmam/15.1.129. Archived from the original
  on 2015-03-09.
• Abubakar, Iya (1962). "Scattering of plane elastic waves at rough surfaces. I". Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 58: 136–157.
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• Abubakar, Iya (1963). "Scattering of plane elastic waves at rough surfaces. II". Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 59: 231–248.
  S2CID 251097465
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