Tsohon shugaban jami’ar Ahmadu Bello Zaria, ABU, Farfesa Abdullahi Mahadi ya rasu, ya na da shekaru 77.

Shahararren masanin tarihi da samun nasararori a fannin ilimi, marigayin ya taba rike mukamin shugaban jami’ar jihar Gombe, da jami’ar kimiyya da fasaha ta jihar Gombe.

Ya fara aikin koyarwa a shekarar 1984 a matsayin babban malami a fannin tarihi a ABU inda likkafarsa ta ci gaba zuwa mataimakin shugaban jami’a tsakanin 1998 zuwa 2004.

Marigayi farfesa ya kasance wanda ya samu lambar yabo ta kasa ta CON.

A cewar jaridar The Abusite, marigayin ya samu lambar yabo ne a Cibiyar Ilimi, Kimiyya da Al’adu ta Islama, hedkwatar ISESCO, Rabat, Maroko a cikin 2017 da ga Masarautar Saudi Arabiya a kan “Kula da da Muhalli da Kariya a Duniyar Musulunci”.

Ya wallafa da kuma wallafawar haɗin gwiwa na littattafai da dama, daga cikinsu akwai Tarihin Najeriya don Makarantu da Kwalejoji, Littattafai I-II, (Longman, 1988).