Prof Sebastian Maimako is a Nigerian

academic An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

and

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accounting Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entity, economic entities, such as businesses and corporations. Accounting measures the results of an organization's economic activit ...

and

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. He was the 9th substantive

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of the

University of Jos The University of Jos, abbreviated as Unijos, is a federal university in Jos, Plateau State, central Nigeria. History What became the University of Jos was established in November 1971 from the satellite campus of the University of Ibadan. T ...

. He was appointed by the Governing Council of the university to succeed Professor Hayward Mafuyai and was in office from 23 June 2016, until 23 June 2021, after finishing five years as a

. He was regarded as one of the best

the University Community will ever have.

Education

Maimako obtained a Bachelor of Science in

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in 1987 from the University of Jos, following the completion of a compulsory one year youth service program in 1988. He later earned a

master's degree in Business Administration A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration; elective courses may allow further study in a particular ar ...

(1992), and a doctorate in management (2006).

Career

Maimako began his academic career in January 1989 as a

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in the Faculty of Management Science at the University of Jos. He became a full professor of Accounting and Finance in 2010. Maimako contributed to the development of the

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for the teaching of Accounting and Finance in Nigerian universities. He has served as Head and Acting Head of the Department of Management Science, Dean and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Management Science, and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Jos. Maimako is also a member of the

Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) is a professional accountancy body in Nigeria. It is one of the two professional accountancy associations with regulatory authority in Nigeria, the other being the Association of National A ...

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