Hadiza Bala Usman
Hadiza Bala Usman (born 2 January 1976) is a Nigerian politician who served as managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority from 2016 to 2021. She previously served as the chief of staff to the governor of Kaduna State from 2015 to 2016. She was appointed special adviser on Policy and Coordination Central Delivery Coordination Unit (CDCU)to President Bola Tinubu in June 2023, together with Hannatu Musawa.
Since 2014, Usman is one of the co-founders of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign, and is also a founding member of the ruling All Progressives Congress.
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[edit]- We also encourage for citizen engagement. There is particular category of assessment deliverables; is about having citizens engagement, be it a town-hall, a meeting, civil society engagement, it could be a twitter space engagement virtually. But that citizen engagement is important because the president is keen for citizens to be aware of what his ministries are doing
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[edit]- Hello welcome to One-on-One. My name is Cyril Stobber. My guest today, is educated at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria and the University of Leeds at the United Kingdom. She holds a Barchelors Degree in Business Administration and Masters Degree in Development Studies. Her career actually started at the private sector, but over the years, she has stints in the public sector..
- I'll just go about and just give you a brief background of my guest today:
- She was at one time in the Bureau of Public Enterprises - from 2000 to 2004. At some point she was Special Assistant of Product Implementation to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory. And of course, she's being in politics being a member of the governing All Progressive Congress; the APC. She was in number of committees. A fewa of them are: The APC Strategy Committee, which we understand was largely responsible for development of the party's manifesto. She was also on the APC's National Election's Planning Committee. Some time in 2015, she was appointed Chief of Staff to the Governor of Kaduna State. That was the position she held until sometime in 2016 in Juny when she was appointed Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority. Let's welcome; Hadiza Bala Usman.