Leadership
The American University of Nigeria - Atiku Institute for Development (AUN-AID) is headed by Dr. Abubakar Sadiq Hussaini (ASH), who serves as the Administrator of Grants & Contracts, and the Deputy Chief of Party. Dr. ASH reports and works directly with the President/Chief of Party, Dr. DeWayne P. Frazier, to ensure all projects meet the defined objectives, outcomes and benchmarks.
DeWayne Frazier, PhDPresident/Chief of Party
DeWayne P. Frazier, PhD
President/Chief of Party
Email: dewayne.frazier@aun.edu.ng
Dr. Frazier is a President of the American University of Nigeria/Chief of Party of the Atiku Institute for Development.
As President, he serves as the Chief Executive Officer for the university operations and leads the institution, which was founded in 2003. AUN is Africa’s first “Development University” and currently has around 100 faculty members, with undergraduate and graduate enrollment of approximately 1,200 students. AUN is the first American-style University south of the Sahara.
Dr. Frazier came to AUN from Iowa Wesleyan University where he served as the Provost for eight years. There he oversaw diverse areas across campus, including student success, student development, academic affairs, international education, online programs, academic divisions and the graduate school.
Prior to joining Iowa Wesleyan, Dr. Frazier was the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School at Campbellsville University in Kentucky, where he oversaw 17 different graduate programs in various disciplines.
Much earlier in his career, he worked at Iowa Wesleyan, where he served as the Senior Vice President for International Programs at Upper Iowa University (UIU). There, Dr. Frazier oversaw campus internationalization efforts, including the implementation of an international student recruitment plan and the growth of UIU’s academic extension centers abroad.
Dr. Frazier has brought in wide range of expertise and vast knowledge and experience both to the American university of Nigeria and Atiku Institute of Development.
President/Chief of Party
Email: dewayne.frazier@aun.edu.ng
Dr. Frazier is a President of the American University of Nigeria/Chief of Party of the Atiku Institute for Development.
As President, he serves as the Chief Executive Officer for the university operations and leads the institution, which was founded in 2003. AUN is Africa’s first “Development University” and currently has around 100 faculty members, with undergraduate and graduate enrollment of approximately 1,200 students. AUN is the first American-style University south of the Sahara.
Dr. Frazier came to AUN from Iowa Wesleyan University where he served as the Provost for eight years. There he oversaw diverse areas across campus, including student success, student development, academic affairs, international education, online programs, academic divisions and the graduate school.
Prior to joining Iowa Wesleyan, Dr. Frazier was the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School at Campbellsville University in Kentucky, where he oversaw 17 different graduate programs in various disciplines.
Much earlier in his career, he worked at Iowa Wesleyan, where he served as the Senior Vice President for International Programs at Upper Iowa University (UIU). There, Dr. Frazier oversaw campus internationalization efforts, including the implementation of an international student recruitment plan and the growth of UIU’s academic extension centers abroad.
Dr. Frazier has brought in wide range of expertise and vast knowledge and experience both to the American university of Nigeria and Atiku Institute of Development.
Abubakar Sadiq Hussaini, PhDAdministrator of Grants & Contracts / Deputy Chief of Party
Abubakar Sadiq Hussaini, PhD
Administrator of Grants & Contracts/Deputy Chief of Party
Email: ash.hussaini@aun.edu.ng
Dr Hussaini is the Administrator of Grants & Contracts/Deputy Chief of Party of the Atiku Institute for Development; Dean & Founding Chairman, School of Engineering; Reader In Telecommunications Engineering, American University of Nigeria (AUN); A-YUNIAMS Project Manager; Former Chairman, Telecoms & Wireless Technologies, School of IT & Computing, AUN; Former Coordinator SDP Projects, School of IT & Computing, AUN; Former Chairman, Administrative Affairs Committee, AUN Senate; Principal Advisor, AUN Honor Society; Founding Principal Advisor, Engineering Students' Society; Member, Board of Trustees/Lead-STI (Science, Technology, Innovation), IYA PATU Foundation. Head of Programmes/Director at Commonwealth ITU Group (CIG), UK; actively participating in the ITU activities of the Radiocommunication, Telecommunication Standardization and the Telecommunication Development Sections.
Dr Hussaini is a Senior Researcher and project development manager with the 4TELL research group at Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal; Visiting Researcher at University of Bradford, UK; He also served as a visiting Assistant Professor/Senior Lecturer at Modibbo Adama University, Yola, Nigeria; He was Microwave Radio Transmission Operations & Maintenance Senior Engineer with Nigerian Telecommunication Limited (NITEL), Abuja, Nigeria, for 10years. And was nominated by the Nigerian Government to Vie for the Post of Secretary-General of the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) in August, 2018 – as Nigeria’s Candidate for the position of “Secretary General, African Telecommunications Union (ATU)” - 2018).
Dr Hussaini was inspired by a desire to create a system that can prevent kidnapping and abduction in schools in Nigeria. Led the team that designed and developed ‘’Yawo Anti-Abduction Emergency Response System (YA-AERS)’’. YA-AERS is an innovative, state-of-the-art design that uses Radio Frequency Spectrum to broadcast alert messages freely without using mobile phone services, signal, internet, over a long-distance range. YA-AERS is the brainchild of six AUN ICT faculty and students and two external telecom engineering experts.
Dr Hussaini has high interest in Agricultural Trade: he carried out a research into the challenges and opportunities within Nigeria and Africa's agricultural export sectors to address critical issues of market access, quality standards, and value addition to enhance competitiveness and sustainability. The research attained an AFREXIM Bank grant project called (A-YUNIAMS). Agricultural Yawo Uniform Information and Access to Market (A-YUNIAMS), is a state of the art Agricultural Value Addition Service application, targeted to record and deliver vital agricultural information to farmers within Adamawa and beyond.
Dr Hussaini is a key player in the processes/activities leading to the National Universities Commission (NUC's) Resource Visitation and Subsequent Approval for the New Engineering Programs at American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola – July, 2019. Coordinated and led the successful National Universities Commission (NUC's) re-accreditation of all Programs of School of IT & Computing (SITC), at the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola – November, 2018. Built a large ecosystem around FD-SOI in Europe – 2018. Developed architecture and technologies for implementing agile radio frequency (RF) transceiver capacities for future radio communication products. He was Senate Committee of the University of Bradford, UK; received his Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from Bayero University, Kano in 2005; received his MSc in Radio Frequency Communication Engineering from the University of Bradford (UK) in 2007; and his PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from University of Bradford, UK in 2012. He is a member of IEEE, IET, ENF, and Optical Society of America; has contributed to numerous publications and is involved in European and CELTIC research projects. His research interests include Radio Frequency System Design and High-Performance RF-MEMS Tunable Filters with specific emphasis on energy efficiency and linearity; Renewable Energy (wind, solar, hydropower, ocean energy, and geothermal), Smart Grid, Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Power Plants & Equipment; Robotics, Nanotechnology, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Embedded Systems, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Software Defined Radio, Cognitive Radio (CR), Radio Resource Management (RRM), Mobile for Development (mHealth or Mobile Health, mAgric or AgriTech, Mobile Money, and Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation) and Optical Communications. His achievements include the design of energy efficient Power Amplifier at 3.5GHz (Mobile WiMAX Frequency); design of High-Performance RF-MEMS Tunable Filters with tuning range from GSM 1.8GHZ to LTE 2.6GHz; design of Millimeter Wave Antenna for 5G Applications; design and development of a “Radio over Fiber” optical transceivers (1550nm Wavelength) in which the frequency limitations of quantum well lasers in direct RF to Light transponding was investigated. Successfully attained several European projects, amongst the projects are MOBILIA (2009-2011), ARTEMOS (2011-2014), CORTIF (2014-2016), THINGS2DO (2014-2018), and 5GWAR (2019-2021). Have participated actively in events, conferences and seminars organized by the Information Society Technology (IST) research program, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), and European Nano Electronics Forum. He participated in several annual European project reviews. His collective role is to defend the project objectives, and results to a panel of examiners that are considered European experts in their respective technical field. He served as a workshop organizer and a workshop chair. He is a TPC member and reviewer for many international conferences and journals. He is first chair of the 1st American University of Nigeria international conference 2023 (AUNIC2023). He is editor of AUN Journal of Engineering & Technology. He is a guest editor for an IET Science, Measurement & Technology special issue, a guest editor for MDPI Electronics Engineering Journal -"Microwave and Wireless Communications" special issue, a guest editor for Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Hindawi Journal, special issue, and also a guest editor for Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences (CMES) Journal, special issue.
Administrator of Grants & Contracts/Deputy Chief of Party
Email: ash.hussaini@aun.edu.ng
Dr Hussaini is the Administrator of Grants & Contracts/Deputy Chief of Party of the Atiku Institute for Development; Dean & Founding Chairman, School of Engineering; Reader In Telecommunications Engineering, American University of Nigeria (AUN); A-YUNIAMS Project Manager; Former Chairman, Telecoms & Wireless Technologies, School of IT & Computing, AUN; Former Coordinator SDP Projects, School of IT & Computing, AUN; Former Chairman, Administrative Affairs Committee, AUN Senate; Principal Advisor, AUN Honor Society; Founding Principal Advisor, Engineering Students' Society; Member, Board of Trustees/Lead-STI (Science, Technology, Innovation), IYA PATU Foundation. Head of Programmes/Director at Commonwealth ITU Group (CIG), UK; actively participating in the ITU activities of the Radiocommunication, Telecommunication Standardization and the Telecommunication Development Sections.
Dr Hussaini is a Senior Researcher and project development manager with the 4TELL research group at Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal; Visiting Researcher at University of Bradford, UK; He also served as a visiting Assistant Professor/Senior Lecturer at Modibbo Adama University, Yola, Nigeria; He was Microwave Radio Transmission Operations & Maintenance Senior Engineer with Nigerian Telecommunication Limited (NITEL), Abuja, Nigeria, for 10years. And was nominated by the Nigerian Government to Vie for the Post of Secretary-General of the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) in August, 2018 – as Nigeria’s Candidate for the position of “Secretary General, African Telecommunications Union (ATU)” - 2018).
Dr Hussaini was inspired by a desire to create a system that can prevent kidnapping and abduction in schools in Nigeria. Led the team that designed and developed ‘’Yawo Anti-Abduction Emergency Response System (YA-AERS)’’. YA-AERS is an innovative, state-of-the-art design that uses Radio Frequency Spectrum to broadcast alert messages freely without using mobile phone services, signal, internet, over a long-distance range. YA-AERS is the brainchild of six AUN ICT faculty and students and two external telecom engineering experts.
Dr Hussaini has high interest in Agricultural Trade: he carried out a research into the challenges and opportunities within Nigeria and Africa's agricultural export sectors to address critical issues of market access, quality standards, and value addition to enhance competitiveness and sustainability. The research attained an AFREXIM Bank grant project called (A-YUNIAMS). Agricultural Yawo Uniform Information and Access to Market (A-YUNIAMS), is a state of the art Agricultural Value Addition Service application, targeted to record and deliver vital agricultural information to farmers within Adamawa and beyond.
Dr Hussaini is a key player in the processes/activities leading to the National Universities Commission (NUC's) Resource Visitation and Subsequent Approval for the New Engineering Programs at American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola – July, 2019. Coordinated and led the successful National Universities Commission (NUC's) re-accreditation of all Programs of School of IT & Computing (SITC), at the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola – November, 2018. Built a large ecosystem around FD-SOI in Europe – 2018. Developed architecture and technologies for implementing agile radio frequency (RF) transceiver capacities for future radio communication products. He was Senate Committee of the University of Bradford, UK; received his Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from Bayero University, Kano in 2005; received his MSc in Radio Frequency Communication Engineering from the University of Bradford (UK) in 2007; and his PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from University of Bradford, UK in 2012. He is a member of IEEE, IET, ENF, and Optical Society of America; has contributed to numerous publications and is involved in European and CELTIC research projects. His research interests include Radio Frequency System Design and High-Performance RF-MEMS Tunable Filters with specific emphasis on energy efficiency and linearity; Renewable Energy (wind, solar, hydropower, ocean energy, and geothermal), Smart Grid, Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Power Plants & Equipment; Robotics, Nanotechnology, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Embedded Systems, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Software Defined Radio, Cognitive Radio (CR), Radio Resource Management (RRM), Mobile for Development (mHealth or Mobile Health, mAgric or AgriTech, Mobile Money, and Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation) and Optical Communications. His achievements include the design of energy efficient Power Amplifier at 3.5GHz (Mobile WiMAX Frequency); design of High-Performance RF-MEMS Tunable Filters with tuning range from GSM 1.8GHZ to LTE 2.6GHz; design of Millimeter Wave Antenna for 5G Applications; design and development of a “Radio over Fiber” optical transceivers (1550nm Wavelength) in which the frequency limitations of quantum well lasers in direct RF to Light transponding was investigated. Successfully attained several European projects, amongst the projects are MOBILIA (2009-2011), ARTEMOS (2011-2014), CORTIF (2014-2016), THINGS2DO (2014-2018), and 5GWAR (2019-2021). Have participated actively in events, conferences and seminars organized by the Information Society Technology (IST) research program, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), and European Nano Electronics Forum. He participated in several annual European project reviews. His collective role is to defend the project objectives, and results to a panel of examiners that are considered European experts in their respective technical field. He served as a workshop organizer and a workshop chair. He is a TPC member and reviewer for many international conferences and journals. He is first chair of the 1st American University of Nigeria international conference 2023 (AUNIC2023). He is editor of AUN Journal of Engineering & Technology. He is a guest editor for an IET Science, Measurement & Technology special issue, a guest editor for MDPI Electronics Engineering Journal -"Microwave and Wireless Communications" special issue, a guest editor for Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Hindawi Journal, special issue, and also a guest editor for Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences (CMES) Journal, special issue.
Dr. Salisu MohammedDirector Centre for Inclusive and Accountable Governance
- Salisu Mohammed Lawal, PhD (Governance & Development), MA (Dev. Studies), BA (Conflict Management with General Studies)
An accomplished Nigerian Development Practitioner; expert in Governance, peacebuilding/Conflict Management, Capacity Development, Livelihoods and Humanitarian program: Has served as Country Director Pact Nigeria; and at various times over the past 17 years in various capacities leading the implementation of some very complex project funded by USAID, BMGF, DFID (Now FCDO), GIZ, British Council, UNDP, and UNHCR in Nigeria: Has business development and fund-raising experience. Salisu is PMD-Pro I and II certified, is a fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants; and a Certified Management Consultant. in the earlier part of his career was a Technical Aid Corps Volunteer for the Nigerian Government technical assistance to the republic of The Gambia.
Fatima BashirOffice Manager
Has a BSc. Communications and Multimedia Design from AUN; graduated with university honours. Has collaborated with Facebook to create an award-winning campaign to empower women and girls in North East Nigeria to counter extremism both online and offline. Fatimah has previously published news reports for Premium Times. Currently, as office manager of AUN-AID, she coordinates daily activities/operations, manages internal communications, and supports all projects to deliver timely outputs at the institute.