Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has appointed Dr. Suraj Sulaiman as the new Statistician-General and Director-General of the Kano State Bureau of Statistics.
The announcement was made in a statement issued by the Governor’s spokesperson, Sunusi Bature in Kano.
Dr. Sulaiman succeeds Associate Professor Aliyu Isa Aliyu, whose tenure ended following his elevation to Commissioner for Livestock Development.
Governor Yusuf has directed that the handover process be completed between this week.
A seasoned academic and mathematician, Dr. Sulaiman brings extensive experience in research, teaching, and statistical analysis to his new role.
He earned his PhD in Mathematics from University Technology Malaysia (UTM) between 2015 and 2018, focusing his doctoral research on “New Method of Computing the Projective Polynomial Resultant Based on Dixon, Jouanolou and Jacobian Matrices.”
He also holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics from Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey (2012–2014), where he specialized in “T-noncosingular Abelian Group,” and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil (2006–2010), with a research project on “A Review of Self-Adjoint Operators Over a Hilbert Space.”
Dr. Sulaiman’s academic journey began at the College of Arts, Science and Remedial Studies, Kano, where he obtained a Diploma in Mathematics Education between 2004 and 2006.
Governor Yusuf congratulated the newly appointed Statistician-General, expressing confidence that his academic and professional expertise will enhance the Bureau’s capacity to provide reliable data for policy and decision-making.
The governor reiterated his administration’s commitment to promoting data.