The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has appointed the immediate former vice chancellor of the Bayero University Kano (BUK), Professor Muhammad Yahuza Bello, as the pro-chancellor and chairman of the governing council of Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano.

This was contained in a statement by the Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba. According to him, the appointment takes immediate effect.

Professor Yahuza Bello is an alumnus of the University of Arkansas, where he earned his doctorate in Mathematics in 1988.

He held several academic leadership positions in the university, including Head of Department of Mathematical Sciences, 1991 to 1999; dean, Faculty of Science, 1995-1999; and director, Centre for Information Technology, 2003-2007; dean, School of Postgraduate Studies, 2009-2010; and two term deputy vice chancellor (academics), which makes him the first and longest deputy vice chancellor in the history of BUK.

Governor Ganduje also approved the renaming of the constructed/dualised Maiduguri Road (Opposite Mobile Police Quarters)-CBN Quarters-Zaria Road after the pioneer pro-chancellor and chairman of the Council of Northwest University (now Yusuf Maitama Sule University), Mallam Sule Yahaya Hamma.