Dr. Adamu A. Yakubu was born in 1973 at Chonoko, Danko Wasagu Local Government Area in Kebbi State. He started primary education in 1979 and completed in 1984. He proceeded to High school and completed it in 1989. Dr. Yakubu obtained BAgric and MSc Soil Science in 1997 and 2004 respectively, from The Usmanu danfoyo University. He went to the Ahmadu Bello Univesity Zaria in 2007 and obtained a PhD Soil science in 2016. He started his career as an academic at the Kebbi State Collage of Agriculture Zuru in 1999. He moved to the University of Abuja in 1998. later joined the Services of the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria in 2011. Dr Yakubu is currently an Associate Professor of Soil Extension/Principal Agricultural Extension Specialist at NAERLS in the Ahmadu Bello University (a university-based research Institute with the national mandate on agricultural extension). He is Happily Married with one wife and five children. He attended a lot of training, conferences, and capacity building forums both within and outside Nigeria and Africa. He has also supervised both undergraduate and postgraduate students in Soil Science and has published a lot of papers in reputable journals in Nigeria, Africa, and outside the African Continent.
