Here is the full details of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees:
General Dambazau
Abdurahman Bello Dambazzau
Abdulrahman Dambazau, 61 years old is a retired Nigerian Army Lieutenant General who under the late Yar’adua administration served as Chief of Army Staff between 2008 and 2010. He was the head of the security committee of the All Progressives Congress during the 2015 elections.
Educational Qualification
Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau, a retired Lieutenant General of the Nigeria Army, was born in 1954 in Zaria, Kaduna State. After his primary school education in Zaria, he gained admission into Barewa College in the same town in 1970.
On graduation in June 1974, he went into the Nigerian Defence Academy Kaduna as a member of the 17 Regular Combatant Course. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Infantry Corps of the Nigerian Army in June 1977. On becoming an officer, Dambazau attended several Young Officers’ and Surveillance Platoon Commanders’ Courses before attending the then Nigerian Army School of Infantry (NASI) in 1978,
In 1979, Dambazau attended the US Army Military Police School, Fort McClellan where he earned a Diploma in Military Police Basic Training
Dambazau later obtained a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Kent State University in 1982. He equally holds a MA in International Relationsand a PhD in Criminology from University of Keele in 1989. He also attended Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College for his Senior Division course from 1991 to 1999. The ministerial nominee was also at the Infantry Centre and School, Jaji for the Commanding Officers’ Course before proceeding to India’s National Defence College, New Delhi in 2003 for his Higher Strategic Military Course.
Past Work Experience
During the course of Dambazau’s military career, he held numerous command, instructional and staff appointments. He was a Staff Officer at the Headquarters of the Nigerian Army Corps of Military Police (NACMP) in 1979 before he became an Aide-de-Camp to the then Chief of Army Staff. He was also a Special Investigator at the Special Investigation Bureau of the NACMP from 1984 to 1985. Subsequently, he was appointed Military Assistant to the Director Army Training and Operations at the Army Headquarters.
In 1993, He became the Registrar/Instructor, Nigerian Defence Academy, a position he held till 1999. He later became the Chief Instructor at the Support Weapon Wing of the Infantry Centre and School from 1999 to 2001, before becoming a Directing Staff at the then National War College between 2004 and 2006. Subsequently, he became the Director, Higher Military Organization and Operations at the same Institution in 2006.
The ministerial nominee also served as the Principal General Staff Officer to the Honourable Minister of Defence (PGSO-HMOD) in 2006. In January 2007, he was appointed the Chief of Army Standard and Evaluation (CASE).
Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau was the General Officer Commanding, 2nd Division of the Nigerian Army in Ibada before his appointment as the 17th Chief of Army Staff of the Nigerian Army during the Yar’adua administration until his disengagement in September 2010 by fomer President Goodluck Jonathan.
Achievements
Dambazau is the founder and Chairman Board of Trustees, Nigerian Society of Victomology, the Foundation for the Victims of Child Abuse. He is honoured by the Nigerian Government with Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR) and Fellow, Institute of Public Relations.
He earned the appellation of the Fellow of the War College Dagger (FWCD) during his stint as the Director of Higher Military Organization and Operations at the National War College in 2006.
He was also the Registrar, Academic Branch NDA and a Part Time Lecturer (gratis) of Criminology at Faculty of Law, Ahmadu Bello University.
In addition to his doctorate thesis he has authored five books and several journal articles. He has also written over eleven published papers on the United Nations, the Media, Human and Drug Trafficking, as well as on Democracy and the Rule of Law among other topics.
Additionally, he is a member of several international professional organizations, including World Society of Criminology, World Society of Victimology, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, American Society of Criminology, British Society of Criminology, and International Police Executive Symposium.
Abubakar Malami, SAN
Abubakar Malami (SAN)
Abubakar Malami is a legal practitioner and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) who was the Lead Counsel of the Legal Team of the defunct CPC right from the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court. He is being tipped by political analysts as the next Attorney-general of the Federation.
Educational Qualifications
Abubakar Malami attended Nassarawa Primary School Birnin Kebbi from 1973 to 1979, before proceeding to College of Arts and Arabic Studies, Kebbi between 1979 and 1984. In 1984. Malami got admision into the College of Legal and Islamic Studies, Sokoto where he was until 1987. Thereafter, He proceeded to the Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto until 1991 before going to the Nigerian Law School, Lagos in 1992.
Malami is also a holder of a Masters Degree in Public Administration (MPA) which he got in 1994 from the University of Maiduguri.
Past Work Experience
Abubakar Malami was a Magistrate II in the Kebbi State Judiciary between 1995 and 1996. He was equally a member of the Local Government Election Tribunal for the 2003 Election and National Publicity Secretary of the Muslim Lawyers Forum of Nigeria between 2002 and 2004.
Malami was indespensable in the Manifesto Drafting Sub-Committee of Inter Joint Party Merger Committees between the CPC, ACN & ANPP towards the formation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2013. In his capacity as the CPC National Adviser, Malami was a member of the defunct CPC Merger Committee that negotiated the formation of the All Progressives Congress together with the defunct ACN, ANPP and factions of APGA and DPP.
He was also a member of the transition committee that helped President Muhammadu Buhari to study and work on the handover notes of the previous administation alongside some other nominees on the ministerial list.
Achievements
Abubakar Malami (SAN), reputed to be an astute and studious lawyer, was conferred with the rank of the Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2008. He was a member of the PDP Legal Team for the 2003 Election Petition, as well as a member of the Kano State Local Government Election Tribunal in 2004.
He was also the national Legal Adviser of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), for whom he was also the chairman of the Legal Team for the 2011 Presidential Campaign Organization.
Politically, he was an aspirant for the position of Governor of Kebbi State in 2015 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, but lost to Atiku Bagudu in the primaries.
He was a resource person to the Manifesto Drafting Sub-Committee of Inter Joint Party Merger Committees between the CPC, CAN & ANPP that resuted in the formation of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in 2013.
Malami was a member to the APC National Convention and Congress Committee 2013, member of APC Electoral Committee for Anambra State Gubernatorial Election, 2013, and member of Kebbi State Committee on National Conference Convened by the Federal Government in 2013.
He was the also the chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Kano State Congress Appeals Committee, of 15th May, 2014, as well as a member of the Constitution Sub – Committee for All Progressives Congress (APC) on 6th June, 2014.
Adebayo Shittu
Barrister Abdul-Raheem Adebayo Shittu
Barrister Abdul-Raheem Adebayo Shittu is an indegene of Saki in the Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State who at 26 years old, was the youngest member of the old Oyo State House of Assembly in 1979.
Educational Qualifications
He went to public primary and middle schools in Ghana, where according to him,”I had the first 10 years of my educational experience”. He thereafter returned to Nigeria and attended Baptist High School in Saki before proceeding between 1974 and 1978 to the bafemi Awolowo University (then University of Ife) for his first degree in Law.
He subsequently attended the Nigerian Law School at the end of which he was called to the Nigerian Bar in July 1979 as a Barrister-at-Law and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. It was while he was in the Nigerian Law School, he contested and got elected on the platform of the Obafemi Awolowo-led United Party of Nigeria (UPN) into the Oyo State House of Assembly which he won and thus, at the age of 26, became the youngest Member of the Oyo State House of Assembly in the Second Republic and was there between 1979 and 1983.
Past Work Experience
Apart from being a legislator in the Oyo state House of Assembly in the second republic, Shittu was also the Oyo State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Home Affair during the Olunloyo administration, as well as Commissioner for Justice in the Ladoja government.
In his days in the University of Ife, Shittu attended several meetings with the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo and participated in the writing of policy papers, which became the guiding light for UPN governments in the various states of the South West.
After the sack of the civilian government following the 1983 coup, Shittu went back into legal practice and socio-religious activisim. He was a member of the National Political Reforms Conference in 2005. He was also an active member of the Oyo State Judicial Service Commission where he introduced important reforms in the judicial system in the state before eventually becoming the state’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice.
Achievements
Adebayo Shittu, was a Lawyer who though contested the 2011 governoship elections on the platform of CPC against Ajimobi of the then ACN , refused to decamp even after losing again in the APC gubernatorial primaries to the same Governor Ajimobia as against Lanlehin, another Lawyer who came from the ACN wing of APC and decided to decamp when he saw that Ajimobi was still pushing for re-election.
Ahmed Musa Ibeto
Ahmed Musa Ibeto
A former Deputy Governor of Niger State, Hon. Ahmed Musa Ibeto is seen by many as a grassroots politician, a virtue which has stood him in good stead paving the way for him to make it into the president’s ministerial list.
Educational Qualifications
Ahmed Musa Ibeto was born on January 15, 1959 at Ibeto headquarters of Ibeto District of Magama Local Government Area in Kontagora Emirate, Niger State. He was at the Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History.
Past Working Experience
From 1987 to 1989, he was the chairman of the then Magama Local Government under the zero party system at the age of 28. Additionally, he was the State Chairman of the National Republican Convention (NRC) party in 1990 and was later elected as the State Secretary of the NRC from 1990 to 1992. He was equally the Niger state Secretary of the defunct United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP), as well as that of the ANPP from 1995 to 1996 and from 1998 to 1999 respectively.
Ibeto was appointed Senior Special Assistant on Protocol Matters to Governor Abdulkadir Kure between 1999 and 2003. He contested and won election into the House of Representatives in 2003 on PDP platform representing Rijau/ Magama Federal Constituency and served as the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Power and later Chairman, House Committee on States and Local Governments.
He become the Deputy Governor of Niger State in 2007 under the administration of former governor Governor Babangida Aliyu.
Achievements
Before becomig a deputy governor, Ahmed Musa Ibeto was a Senior Special Assist. to the Governor of Niger State. He is also a former council chair as well as a former governor of Niger state in acting capacity.
Aisha Jumai Al Hassan
One of the women to make the president’s nomination list, Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan is a former senator who almost became the first democtratically elected female governor in Nigeria save for her deafeat in the Taraba re-run election held on 25th of April 2015.
Educational Qualifications
She was born on 16th September 1959 in Jalingi, Taraba State. She attended Muhammed Nya Primary School, Jalingo and also L.E.A Primary School, Tundun Wada, Kaduna before proceeding to Saint Faith College (now GGSS) Kawo, Kaduna in 1973. From 1977 to 1979, Jumai attended School of Basic Studies (SBS) A.B.U. Samaru Zaria.
She later enrolled for Law at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, Kaduna State between 1980 and 1985, and later Law School from between 1985 and 1986.
Past Work Experience
While in the university, Aisha Jumai Al Hassan joined student politics and contested for the post of Vice President of the Student Union Government agaist two other candidates and won. She later became the Acting Presesident as a result of a crisis that happened in the school that year.
She was a Magistrate Grade II in the Kaduna State Judiciary in 1988 and later went for the Technical Corps programme of the Federeal Ministry Of Foreign Affairs in the Republic of Fiji from 1990 – 1992. She was admitted to the Fijian Bar and enrolledas a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Figi in 1991.
When she returned to Nigeria, she became the first female Chief Magistrate in the FCT in 1996. She was moved to Judicial Administration as the first female Deputy Chief Registrar and Director Litigation, High court of the FCT Abuja in 1997. She was appointed as the first Attorney General of Taraba in 1997. And in February 2002, she became the First female Secretary of the FCT Judicial Service Commission. She became the Chief Regstrar of the High Court of the FCT in December 2003 before retiring in 2009.
She won her first election to become the Senator for her zone in 2010.
Achievements
A lawyer by training, Jummai became Taraba State Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice. She was appointed the Chief Registrar of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on 17 December 2003. After she retired from service she went into business.
In the January 2011 PDP primaries, Jummai defeated the incumbent Senator, former Ambassador Manzo Anthony to emerge the party’s candiate. In the 9 April 2011 elections, Jummai won 114,131 votes, followed by Jolly Nyame of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) with 92,004 votes.
Amina Mohammed
Amina Mohammed
Born of a Nigerian father from Gombe and a British mother from Wales, Amina Mohammed has background and a network of contacts in civil society, government and the grassroots which should serve her well in scaling the hurdle that is the ministerial screening of the senate.
Educational Qualifications
Amina Mohammed had her education in Nigeria from the age of 2 in Birnin Kebbi, Kaduna and Maiduguri before finishing in the Isle of Man.
Past Work Experience
For 11 years, Amina Mohammed worked for a Multi engineering practice in Kaduna before setting up a Firm called Afri-projects Consortium a multidisciplinary firm of engineers and quantity surveyors, which handled many jobs when President Buhari was the chairman of the defunct Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) established by late Head of State, General Sani Abacha to manage oil windfall. She also served as the organisation’s Executive Director from 1991 to 2001.
In 2005, under President OBJ as Senior Special Assistant on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for six years. She was later reappointed by the YarAdua Administration in August 2007.
Achievement
Amina Mohammed is the National Coordinator for Education for All (EFA) at the Federal Ministry of Education in Nigeria. In this capacity Mohammed coordinates the development of a fully participatory National Action Plan, which includes cross-cutting areas such as HIV/AIDS and macroeconomic strategies as proposed in the World Bank Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP). A particular focus of her work lies on the development of strategies to empower community participation at government level.
Mrs. Mohammed was also founding member and moderator of the facilitating committee at the Civil Society Action Coalition on EFA (CSACEFA), a national coalition of 124 Civil Society organizations working on education in Nigeria.
She was appointed Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning to the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, on June 7, 2012. Amina Mohammed is also a Program Advisory Panelists for the Global Development Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She is equally an adjunct professor at Columbia University, New York.
Chief Audu Ogbeh
Audu Ogbeh
Chief Audu Ogbeh, a former PDP National Chairman, is one of the few politicians that kept faith with the opposition since dumping the PDP. Those in the know describe him as a political philosopher and one of those that made APC presidential victory possible.
Educational Qualification
Born on July 28, 1947, in Otukpo, Benue State, Ogbeh attended King’s College, Lagos from 196 to 1968, then studied at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (1969 – 1972) and the University of Toulouse, France (1973 – 1974). He lectured at the Institute of Education, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (1972 – 1976) and headed the Department of Humanities, Murtala College of Arts, Science and Technology (1977 – 1979).
Past Work Experience
In 1979 he ran for office in the Benue State House of Assembly on the Platform of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), becoming deputy speaker of the house. In 1982 he was appointed Federal Minister of Communications, and later became Minister of Steel Development. His term of office ended in December 1983 when a military coup brought Major-General Muhammadu Buhari to power.
In 2001 he was appointed National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), replacing Chief Barnabas Gemade. He held this position until January 2005.
Achievements
Chief Audu Ogbe is the chairman and managing director, Efugo Farms and a member of Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated, based in Philadelphia, United States of America.
He was once a honorary Special Adviser on Agriculture to former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
In 1979, beacme he a member of the the Benue State House of Assembly on the platform of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN). He was thereafter elected deputy speaker of the House. In 1982, he was appointed Federal Minister of Communications by Alhaji Shehu Shagari and later became Minister of Steel Development.
Babatunde Fashola
Babatunde Raji Fashola
The charismatic former governor of Lagos State was most analysts’ favourite to make the ministerial list.
Educational Qualifications
He obtained his First School Leaving Certificate [FSLC] from the Sunny Fields Primary School, Adelabu Surulere, Lagos, after which he proceeded to Birch Freeman High School, Surulere, Lagos and later Igbobi College, Yaba from where he acquired the West African School Certificate [WASC]. He, thereafter, went to the University of Benin, Benin City and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws [LLB Hons] degree in 1987. He was called to the Nigeria Bar in November 1988 after undertaking the statutory training for Barristers and Solicitors.
Past Work Experience
As Managing Partner, Lead Counsel at Sofunde, Osakwe, Ogundipe and Belgore; the law firm of K.O.Tinubu & Company, Babatunde Raji Fashola successfully pleaded many cases at High Courts, various divisions of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, before being conferred with the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria [SAN].
Prior to becoming the governor of the most popular state in Nigeria, Fashola was the Chief of Staff to former Governor Bola Tinubu from 2002 to 2006 during which time he served as Member, State Tenders Board; Member, State Executive Council, Member, State Treasury Board, and Member, State Security Council amongst several other Ad-Hoc Committees/Panels.
In 2007, Fashola was elected governor of Lagos State and was re-elected in 2011.
Achievements
Fashola is Patron, Institute of Arbitrators [CIA], Grand Patron, Association of Nigerian Theatre Practitioners [ANTP] Lagos State Chapter, Member, Nigeria Bar Association [NBA], Member, International Bar Association [IBA], Fellow, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria [CITN], Notary Public of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Recipient of several awards and Certificates of Merit, Legal Practitioner, Administrator, Management Consultant.
See Also: Lai Muhammed, Ameachi, Fashola , Ngige, Others Make Buhari’s Ministerial List
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