President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman as Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA),with effect from July 11, 2016. Also appointed to NPA are: Mohammed Bello-Koko ED (Finance), Prof. Idris Abubakar ED (Engineering), Dr. Sekonte Davies ED (Marine OperatioIn July 2015, Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman was appointed Chief of Staff to Kaduna State Governor, a position she held until her present appointment.
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Ms. Bala Usman, 40, will become the first female chief executive of a top tier federal government agency and of the NPA.
She takes over from Alhaji Habib Abdullahi, who was reinstated by Buhari in August 2015 as the managing director of NPA, after he had been shown the exit by former President Goodluck Jonathan in April 2015.
According to reports the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, did submit Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman’s name to President Muhammadu Buhari to take over as the new managing director of NPA.
Upon confirmation today by Buhari, Ms. Bala Usman has become the first female chief executive of a top tier federal government agency and of the NPA.
Sources privy to this in the presidency confirmed that Ms. Bala Usman’s name had been sent to the president last week. It is learnt that Amaechi had decided to make the changes in order to overhaul the NPA as he wasn’t impressed with the way the NPA was being run and has decided to effect a change of the executive team as soon as possible.
Amaechi was also believed to have recommended Ms. Bala Usman, on the grounds that two chief executives of the foremost parastatals under his ministry – Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) – are from the south, and he would rather have an equitable distribution of appointments into the agencies under his ministry.
Ms. Bala Usman, who until Tuesday, was the chief of staff to the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, and a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was born in Zaria, Kaduna State, on January 2, 1976.
She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in 2000 from the Ahmadu Bello university and her Master’s degree from the University of Leeds in 2009.
She worked for a non-governmental organisation, the Centre for Democratic Development and Research Training (CEDDERT) in Zaria, as a research assistant for a year starting in 1999.
She also worked for the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) when el-Rufai was the director-general of the privatisation agency and moved with him to work as his Special Assistant on Project Implementation.
In 2011, she worked as Director of Strategy for the Good Governance Group (3G). In 2015, she was appointed Chief of Staff to the Kaduna State governor.
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