Professor Mahmoud Yakubu the new INEC Chairman  was born in Bauchi in 1962. he graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in History from Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto. He is the first person from the whole of Northern Nigeria to have obtained a first class Honours Degree in History. Yakubu later gained admission to the prestigious University of Oxford where he bagged a Doctor of Philosophy Degree.
He was a recipient of the Bauchi State
Govt Scholarship to study at both the
Cambridge & Oxford Universities in England
and his outstanding intellectual artistry at
Cambridge further earned him the scholarship of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust.
Prof Mahmood was a three time-time winner
of the over Overseas Research Student (ORS)
Award by the London-based Committee of Vice- Chancellors of UK. www.weeklypostng.com/2015/10/buhari-appoints-prof-mahmud-yakubu-as.html?m=1

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He was also a proud recipient of the competitive Commonwealth Scholarship by the Association of Commonwealth Universities tenable at the University of Oxford. In 2007, Professor Mahmood was appointed the Executive Secretary of the Education Trust Fund (ETF) now known as Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). Professor Mahmoud is an expert in guerrilla warfare, terrorism and counter-terrorism.