.The senate of the Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria, has, in its 472nd
meeting approved the promotion of a 39-
year old academic, Ahmad Ibrahim Doko,
to the rank of Professor of Quantity
Surveying. Vice Chancellor of the university,
Professor Ibrahim Garba, who announced
the promotion recently has also renewed
the appointment of the newly- promoted
professor as the managing director of the
institution’s consultancy services (ABUCONS). Professor Doko, who hails from Niger
State was born in 1974 at Doko town,
where he attended North Primary School,
Doko between 1979 and 1985, and from
where he proceeded to Government
Secondary School, Doko and Ahmadu Bello University Demonstration
Secondary School between 1985 to
1991. He proceeded to Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria in 1991, where he
obtained his B.Sc degree in Quantity
Surveying in 1998, after which he joined
the quantity surveying department of the
university as assistant lecturer in 2000. Doko proceeded to King Fahd University
of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia,
in 2001, where he obtained his M.Sc
degree in construction engineering and
management in 2003, from where he
proceeded to Loughborough University, United Kingdom in 2004, where he
obtained his Ph.D degree in 2007. Professor Doko served as head of
quantity surveying department of the
university between 2008 to 2012. He was
first appointed as the managing director
of the main consultancy firm of the
university (ABUCONS) in 2010.

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