Ibrahim Shekarau (born 5 November 1955) is a former Nigerian minister of education[1] and two-term Governor of Kano State in Nigeria.
He was educated at Gidan Makama Primary School (1961–1967), then at Kano Commercial College (1967–1973) and finally at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (1973–1977) where he received a Degree in Mathematics/Education.
By February 2000, he was on the move again to Civil Service Commission, where he stayed for only four months before the civil service commission under Ado Gwaram Government sent him to the State College of Arts, Science and Remedial Studies (CASRS) as Chief Lecturer (Mathematics) at the Department of Physical Sciences, in May 2000.
[4] As Governor, Shekarau opposed polio vaccination campaigns on the grounds that they are actually attempts to make Muslim women infertile.
Governor Ibrahim Shekarau was one of the unsuccessful candidates for the Nigerian presidential elections of 2011 won by Goodluck Jonathan.