Meet 37-year-old Ahmed Doko, ABU’s youngest professor

The ideology that bagging a PhD comes with age is not really applicable nowadays.

If you are super intelligent, dedicated and determined, then you can be a professor at an early age, at least that is the case of Ahmad Ibrahim Doko.

The senate of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, approved the promotion of a 37- year old academic, Doko to the rank of Professor of Quantity Surveying, during its 472nd meeting.

Not only was he promoted as a professor, he was also appointed as the managing director of the institution’s consultancy services (ABUCONS).

    Vice Chancellor of the university, Ibrahim Garba, who announced the promotion recently has also renewed the appointment of the newly- promoted professor as the managing director of the institution’s consultancy services(ABUCONS).

Doko, who hails from Niger State and he attended North Primary School, Doko between 1979 and 1985, and from where he proceeded to Government Secondary School, Doko and Ahmadu Bello University Demonstration Secondary School between 1985 to 1991.

He attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1991, where he obtained his B.Sc degree in Quantity Surveying in 1998, after which he joined the quantity surveying department of the university as assistant lecturer in 2000.

Doko also attended King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, in 2001, where he obtained his M.Sc degree in construction engineering and management in 2003, from where he proceeded to Loughborough University, United Kingdom in 2004, where he obtained his Ph.D degree in 2007.

Professor Doko served as head of quantity surveying department of the university between 2008 to 2012.

He was first appointed as the managing director of the main consultancy firm of the university (ABUCONS) in 2010.