A Professor of Communications and Dean Postgraduate School Bayero University Kano, Professor Umaru Pate has been appointed Vice-Chancellor Federal Univerity Kashere, Gombe State.
Professor Pate before his appointment as the Vice-Chancellor, was the Dean, School of Postgraduate, Bayero University, Kano and President Association of communications scholars and practitioners of Nigeria.
Currently, he is managing a US$ 700,000 (N236 Million) grant he successfully competed and won for his Faculty from the MacArthur Foundation of Chicago last year. He is the only scholar in Nigeria, among many others that competed and won the grant for his Faculty in the country.
Professor Pate has over sixty-six national and international publications consisting of journal articles, book chapters, monographs and books published in different parts of the world.