Abdullahi Musa Ashafa is a

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and The Acting

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Kaduna State University Kaduna State University is located in Kaduna (city), Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeria. It was established in 2004. It has sixteen faculties with over 50 Academic department, departments. The School has two main campuses: Kafanchan and Kaduna (city), ...

Career

Ashafa served as the Dean of Postgraduate Studies at

(KASU) and held the position of Deputy

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(Academic) in 2018. He was previously a lecturer at the

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and worked as Chief Administrative Officer under the Special Adviser to the

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on Inter-Party Relations. On 23 June 2022, he was appointed Acting Vice-Chancellor of KASU by the university's 5th Governing Council, following the end of the tenure of his predecessor, Yohanna Tella. Ashafa's appointment is for a five-year term.

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