Biography
- Biography Of Iya Abubakar
Iya AbubakarIya Abubakar was born December 14, 1934. He is a Nigerian politician and mathematician who was Federal Minister of Defence during the Second Republic of Nigeria, and senator for Adamawa North from May 1999 to May 2007. Iya Abubakar...
- Biography Of Usman Bayero Nafada, Senator
Usman Bayero NafadaUsman Bayero Nafada, Senator representing Gombe North Senatorial District was born in January 1961. He is an indigene of Gombe State. Usman Bayero Nafada had his Primary Education at Nfada Central Primary School in 1978. He then proceeded...
- Biography Of Abel Guobadia
Abel Guobadia was born on June 28, 1932 in Benin City, Nigeria. Abel attended C.M.S. Primary School Benin City from the year 1939 to 1945. After his primary education, he attended Government College, Ibadan from 1946 to1951. He then got admission into...
- Biography Of Umaru Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman And Chief Executive Officer Of Ncc.
Umaru Garba DanbattaUmaru Garba Danbatta, was appointed the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission.(NCC) on August 4, 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari.He was born in Danbatta Local Governement Council...
- Biography Of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje;
Abdullahi Umar Ganduje was born on December 25, 1949 at Ganduje village, Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area of Kano State. Abdullahi Ganduje started his first school experience with in Qur?anic and Islamiyya school situate at Ganduje where acquired...
Biography
Biography of Attahiru Jega
Attahiru Muhammadu Jega was born on January 11, 1957 in Jega, Kebbi State of Nigeria. He is a former Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano who becameChairman of the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) on June 8, 2010 subject to Senate confirmation, as a replacement for Professor Maurice Iwu, who vacated the post on April 28, 2010.Attahiru Jega attended Sabon Gari Town Primary School, Jega between the years 1963 and 1969, from where he proceeded to Government Secondary School, Birnin Kebbi where he had his secondary education. He got admission into The Ahmadu Bello University Zaria's Bayero University College, Kano in 1974, where he graduated in the year 1979 with a Second Class Upper Division, bagging a BSc degree in Political Science.
Jega initially started his career as a teaching assistant at Bayero University, he later won a fellowship at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois in the United States (1981?1984) where he obtained a PhD in Political Sciences. When he came back, he returned as a lecturer in the Political Science Department of the Bayero University in the year 1984.
Jega was a visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos between March 1992 ? March 1993; visiting Research Fellow of the Department of Political Science, University of Stockholm, Sweden (1994), Deputy Vice-chancellor (Academic) at Bayero University (1995?1996) and director of the Centre for Democratic Research and Training, Bayero University (2000?2004). In the year 2005, Attahiru Jega was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University.
Attahiru Jega was an active unionist. In the 1990s, he was the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), and during his term of office, he strongly opposed Babangida military government. Jega is widely seen as an astute intellectual with a strong sense of ethics and morality.
In the year 2008, Jega was appointed a member of the Justice Mohammed Uwais Electoral Reform Committee, which came-up with a report on December 11, 2008 recommending among other things that commissions be established to deal with Electoral Offences, Constituency Delimitation and Political Parties Registration and Regulation. Also part of the report is a recommendation of proportional representation and that the INEC head should be appointed by the judiciary rather than the President.
On March 28, 2015, under Jega?s leadership as the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, a general elections were conducted, and both Nigerians and the entire World saw that as free, fair and credible declaring the APC Presidential candidate General Muhammadu Buhari as winner who defeated the Incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan.
- Biography Of Iya Abubakar
Iya AbubakarIya Abubakar was born December 14, 1934. He is a Nigerian politician and mathematician who was Federal Minister of Defence during the Second Republic of Nigeria, and senator for Adamawa North from May 1999 to May 2007. Iya Abubakar...
- Biography Of Usman Bayero Nafada, Senator
Usman Bayero NafadaUsman Bayero Nafada, Senator representing Gombe North Senatorial District was born in January 1961. He is an indigene of Gombe State. Usman Bayero Nafada had his Primary Education at Nfada Central Primary School in 1978. He then proceeded...
- Biography Of Abel Guobadia
Abel Guobadia was born on June 28, 1932 in Benin City, Nigeria. Abel attended C.M.S. Primary School Benin City from the year 1939 to 1945. After his primary education, he attended Government College, Ibadan from 1946 to1951. He then got admission into...
- Biography Of Umaru Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman And Chief Executive Officer Of Ncc.
Umaru Garba DanbattaUmaru Garba Danbatta, was appointed the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission.(NCC) on August 4, 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari.He was born in Danbatta Local Governement Council...
- Biography Of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje;
Abdullahi Umar Ganduje was born on December 25, 1949 at Ganduje village, Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area of Kano State. Abdullahi Ganduje started his first school experience with in Qur?anic and Islamiyya school situate at Ganduje where acquired...