Tanko Ishaya is a Nigerian Professor of Computer Science and the vice chancellor of the University of Jos. He was appointed into office in December 2021.

Early life and career

Ishaya obtained a bachelor of science in Mathematics Education from 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 ...

in 1992 and began to teach Mathematics at the College of Agriculture, Zuru, Kebbi State. He completed a Masters Degree in Computation at the

University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The University of Manchester is c ...

in 1997. and completed a Ph.D. in Computing Studies in 2001. After a period of years lecturing at the

University of Hull The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hu ...

(Scarborough Campus), he returned to Jos, where he was later promoted to a Professor of Computer Science in 2012.

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