Mahmud Modibbo Tukur (1944–1988) was a Nigerian historian, scholar and the 4th National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Tukur was the Head of the Department of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Ahmadu Bello University when he died on 15 November 1988 in Zaria.
[1] During his time at Ahmadu Bello University, he met and studied under some influential Historians like Professor Abdullahi Smith and Dr. Yusufu Bala Usman who jointly supervised his doctoral dissertation on “The Imposition of British Colonial Domination on the Sokoto Caliphate, Borno and Neighbouring States (1897-1914): A Reinterpretation of Colonial Sources”.
[4] Later that same year, he led the first ASUU nation-wide strike since the era of Yakubu Gowon's government regarding university autonomy and democracy.
Under his leadership, ASUU established close ties to the other major trade unions in the country like the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS).