Professor Muhammad Gidado Tahir, the pioneer Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), is dead. He died Wednesday night, according to family sources. Until his death, Tahir was the Chairman, Board of National Commission for Nomadic Education (NCNE). He was also a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration), University of Abuja. Gidado Tahir was born on December, 29th, 1949, in Toungo, Adamawa State. He attended the Church of the Brethren Mission Secondary School in Waka, Biu, in the old Borno Province, between 1956 and 1967 and later admitted to Government Secondary,…
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