Professor Sunusi Mamman was the Vice Chancellor of Umaru Musa Yar'adua University from 2017 to December 15, 2022. His appointment as the university's substantive vice chancellor came after the tenure of Professor Idris Isa Funtua expired. Professor Sunusi Mamman was once the acting vice chancellor of the university from February to June 2015 and the deputy vice chancellor (administration) of the university from 2014 to 2016. A Professor of Special Needs Education with special interest in Cognitive Exceptionalities. His reign as acting vice chancellor was characterised by massive structural development which gave rise to the utilisation of the 2013 Needs Assessment funds of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (tetfund) that financed for the constructions of additional male and female hostels, Post Graduate Students Hostel and other developmental structures. He also introduced several constructions in all the five faculties of the university. He sponsored academic and non-teaching staff to pursue higher degrees in many universities at home and abroad thereby boosting the workforce in the university. Teaching career After obtaining his NCE, Mamman became a classroom teacher and served in many Government Secondary Schools within Kaduna and later Katsina State. He served in the Government School for the Deaf, Malumfashi for several years. He was later posted to Malumfashi Zonal Office to serve as Chief Examination Officer (Guidance and Counselling). He served as a part-time lecturer with the Department of Special Education, Bayero University, Kano from 2014 to 2015 and Federal College of Education, Kano (Directorate of Continuing Education from 2008 to 2011. When Katsina State Government established the Katsina State University, he was one of the pioneer staff of the department of education. In September, 2008, he was sponsored to attend a workshop on University Governance at Centre for Management Development Ikeja Lagos titled: Workshop on Leadership for Good Governance of Nigerian Universities. Upon his return in October 2008, he became the pioneer Dean of Student Affairs – a position he held until July, 2014 when he was elected by the Senate of Umaru Musa Yar'adua University, Katsina to serve as the deputy vice chancellor (administration). In his tenure as the dean, he was the first to enroll the first set of graduates from Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Katsina for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC in 2009). He was the first to hold student union election across the then three faculties in which the first student union president emerged in