Eskor Toyo (born Asuquo Ita;[1] 1929 – 7 December 2015) was a Nigerian Marxist scholar, writer and academic.
[2] Until his death, he was a professor of economics at the University of Calabar.
[3] Born in 1929 in Oron, Akwa Ibom State, Eskor completed his education in Calabar and Lagos.
Eskor furthered his education by obtaining a postgraduate diploma in National Economic Planning, an MSc and a PhD in economics.
[4] As an academic, Eskor taught economics in some universities in Europe and Nigeria before he became head of Department of Economics in the Universities of Maiduguri and Calabar.