Abubakar Balarabe Mahmoud

AB Mahmoud was born in Kano State and started his primary education in Kano, he attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws in 1979 and a Master of Laws in 1984. He attended the Nigerian Law School and was called to the bar in May 1979.^[2]

Mahmoud began his career in 1979 as a state counsel with the Kano State Ministry of Justice. He later rose to Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Kano State. He resigned and founded the law firm Dikko & Mahmoud in 1993.^[3] That same year, he was elected chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Kano Branch. He became a Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2001 and served as president of the Nigerian Bar Association from 2016 to 2018.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]} He has also served as the first vice president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange^[11][12] He is counsel to former Central Bank of Nigeria governor and 14th and 16th Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.^{[13][14][15][16][17][18]}