Sani Muhammad Uzairu is a Nigerian-Ghanaian enzymologist.

Sani was born to Alhaji Uzairu Abdullahi, a descent of old-day Kano State, Nigeria, and Tilka Garba, a Ghanaian. He is of a mixed lineage and calls himself a global citizen. Sani is the last child of his father.

In his memoir,*Call to Adventure,*The Prof (as he is fondly addressed) said he didn’t grow up to know his dad. He recalled albeit wistfully grapevine accounts of his father's demise whilst he was barely a year old. For this reason, Sani spent most of his childhood and teenage years in Ghana under the care of his mum.

He was left under the guidance of his maternal grandmother when his mother later re-married.

In May/June 2006, teenage Sani sat for the WAEC administered WASSCE at T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School, Kumasi, his alma mater, and excelled with enviable grades. However, exorbitant higher education fees besides his mum's limiting financial circumstance would separately and together conspire to deny him access to university education.

Consequently, in the following year, beleaguered Sani relocated to Lagos, Nigeria in search of greener pastures to make a life for himself. He relates that taking a flight from the bosom of his close relatives was a Gordian knot to crack, especially at such a tender age. Little wonder his decision to move on to pastures new came under fierce resistance from his mum who felt he had yet to attain the apposite mental and physical growth for such a gargantuan risk.

Fresh in Lagos, he joined Complete Confidence International School as a pupil teacher.

A year later, precisely in 2008, he sat for and aced the JAMB organized UME (UTME) and eventually enrolled for a degree program in Biochemistry at Bayero University, Kano where he graduated in 2012.

Whilst at Bayero University, Kano, he was adjudged the most outstanding Biochemistry student among his year-group in the 2008/2009 academic year, a feat that won him the university scholarship for that academic session. In 2009/2010, he was awarded the National Merit Scholarship by Total E&P Nigeria Ltd, a subsidiary of Total S.A., which he benefited from until 2011/2012 academic year.

In July 2013, he returned to the Department of Biochemistry, Bayero University, Kano as a Youth Corp member where he served as a Technologist until June 2014.

Afterward, he had a stint with Pragmatic College, Kano as a Chemistry / Physics tutor and later the senior master of the College.

In 2015, Sani was awarded yet another scholarship by the Kano State Government to read a Master’s program in Medical Biochemistry at Near East University in Cyprus. He graduated in June 2017 with distinction. He is a prolific writer and orator whose salutary adventure has brought him to the epiphany that for a person to succeed, the fellow needs a sense of self-efficacy and willpower to struggle with resilience to meet obstacles and inequities in life.