Buhari Considers Hadiza Bala Usman as Head of NPA

 
In an offer to infuse a crisp pair of hands to run the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, has submitted Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman's name to President Muhammadu Buhari to assume control as the new overseeing executive of NPA, THISDAY has learnt.

Should Buhari support the suggestion, Ms. Bala Usman, 40, will turn into the principal female CEO of a top level central government organization and of the NPA.

She should assume control from Alhaji Habib Abdullahi, who was reestablished by Buhari in August 2015 as the overseeing chief of NPA, after he had been demonstrated the way out by previous President Goodluck Jonathan in April 2015.

Sources in the administration, who affirmed that Ms. Bala Usman's name had been sent to the president, said Amaechi had chosen to roll out the improvements keeping in mind the end goal to update the NPA.

Amaechi, it was assembled, is not especially inspired with the way the NPA was being run and has chosen to impact a change of the official group at the earliest opportunity.

An administration source said that the moment Ms. Bala Usman's name was submitted to the president, Buhari was upbeat to consider the proposal, given the past relationship he had with her dad, the late Prof. Yusufu Bala Usman, who was an eminent Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) scholarly, student of history and dissident before his passing a few years back.

Amaechi was likewise accepted to have prescribed Ms. Bala Usman, in light of the fact that two CEOs of the chief parastatals under his service – Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) – are from the south, and he would rather have an evenhanded conveyance of arrangements into the offices under his service.

Ms. Bala Usman, who is right now the head of staff to the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, and an individual from the All Progressives Congress (APC), was conceived in Zaria, Kaduna State, on January 2, 1976.

She grew up near the ABU grounds where her dad worked and got her Bachelor's degree in 2000 from the same college and her Master's degree from the University of Leeds in 2009.

She worked for a non-administrative association, the Center for Democratic Development and Research Training (CEDDERT) in Zaria, as an exploration aide for a year beginning in 1999.

She additionally worked for the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) when el-Rufai was the chief general of the privatization office and moved with him to fill in as his Special Assistant on Project Implementation.

In 2011, she filled in as Director of Strategy for the Good Governance Group (3G). In 2015, she was selected Chief of Staff to the Kaduna State representative.

She shot to national noticeable quality in 2014 when Boko Haram guerillas seized 276 young ladies from their optional school in Chibok, Borno State.

Emulating her dad's example, Ms. Bala Usman, in conjunction with the previous Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, helped to establish the #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG), which conveyed worldwide regard for the predicament of the abducted schoolgirls.

She is hitched to Dr. Tanimu Yakubu, previous Chief Economic Adviser to the late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, and they have two children.
adiza Bala Usman as Head of NPA