Profiling Some of The Men and Women Who Will Be Buhari’s Ministers

imageAisha AlHassan
She attempted to become the first female governor but failed to defeat Governor Darius Ishaku.

She was Taraba State Commissioner for Justice and Attorney general before her election into the senate in 2011.

Hajiya Al-Hassan is a Mumuye who 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

Sen. Hadi Sirika
Sen. Sirika is a former pilot and a senator (Katsina North) between 2011 and 2015. He was the Vice-Chairman of the Millennium Development Goals (MGDs) Committee of the Senate.

The CPC senator was also a member of the Senate Committee on Aviation.

imageMrs Amina Mohammed
Mrs Amina Mohammed, born 1961, was appointed to her role with the UN secretary general in June 2012.

The mother of six previously worked for six years with former President Olusegun Obasanjo as Special Adviser on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

She has been working in the field of development for more than 30 years both in the public sector and the private sector. Prior to her current appointment, she was the CEO and founder of the think tank Centre for Development Policy Solutions.

Previously, she worked as senior adviser to the President of Nigeria on Millennium Development Goals for six years. In this position, she was in charge of designing and developing government projects to reduce poverty around the country.[2] Between 2002 and 2005, she worked in the United Nations Millennium Project as a coordinator of the Task Force on Gender and Education.

imageAdebayo Shittu
Adebayo Shittu, a lawyer, was the Oyo State governorship candidate of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change (CPC) in 2007 and 2011 elections. At 26, he was the youngest member of the Oyo State House of Assembly between 1979 and 1983. He was commissioner for home affairs, tourism and culture under the short-lived Omololu Olunloyo administration in 1983.

Towards the tail-end of Rashidi Ladoja’s regime, he was appointed Attorney- General and Commissioner for Justice.

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