Eskor Toyo

Eskor Toyo (born Asuquo Ita; 1929 – 7 December 2015) was a Nigerian Marxist scholar, writer and academic. Until his death, he was a professor of economics at the University of Calabar.

Biography Born in 1929 in Oron, Akwa Ibom State, Eskor completed his education in Calabar and Lagos. While in Grade One in 1945, he obtained the Cambridge School Certificate and the Cambridge Higher School Certificate which he passed.

As an academic, Eskor taught economics in some universities in Europe and Nigeria before he became head of Department of Economics in the Universities of Maiduguri and Calabar. After suffering from series of strokes, he died on 7 December 2015 at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital in Calabar.