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Professor Bello Bako Dambatta Biography

Professor Bello Bako Dambatta is a distinguished Nigerian academic and administrator, born on December 15, 1950, in Kano, Kano State. He is married to Sakinah Hassan Gwarzo and has two sons and four daughters.

Dambatta’s educational journey includes attending several institutions, such as Dandago Junior Primary School, Gwale Senior Primary School, and Government Secondary School (Rumfa College) in Kano, before continuing his higher studies at various UK universities, including the University of Huddersfield, University of Bradford, and Lancaster University.

He began his career in 1972 as a Dyeing Technologist at United Nigeria Textiles Limited, eventually progressing to roles in education at Bayero University, Kano, starting as a Lecturer II in 1978. He held numerous academic and administrative positions, including Head of the Chemistry Department, Dean of the Faculty of Science, and Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University from 1995.

Dambatta is also a fellow of the Chemical Society of Nigeria and has held multiple national and international academic roles, including as an external examiner and member of various university and governmental committees.

Dambatta received several accolades, including the British Council Visitorship to Britain (1988), a British Council Research Fellowship (1989-90), and the Fellowship of the Chemical Society of Nigeria (1996).