Yakubu Dogara
Honourable
Yakubu Dogara

Image of Honourable Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of Nigerian House of Representatives
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria
In office
2015 – till date
Personal details
Born December 26, 1967 (age 47)
Nationality Nigerian
Political party All Progressives Congress (APC)
Relations Married
Children Two
Occupation Legislator
Profession Legal Practitioner
Religion Christianity
Yakubu Dogara (born 26 December 1967) is The Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives of Nigeria, representing Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa-Balewa federal constituency of Bauchi State. He is a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC).


Early Life and Education
Hon. Yakubu Dogara was born to Yakubu Ganawuri and Saratu Yakubu on 26 December 1967. He began his education in 1976 at Gwarangah Primary School in Bauchi. Upon graduation in 1982, he proceeded to the Bauchi Teachers’ College for his secondary education, and obtained a Grade II Teachers’ Certificate in 1987. In 1988, he went on to the University of Jos, Plateau State, from where he obtained a Bachelor of Law (LLB Hons.) degree in 1992.

From 1992 – 1993, Dogara was a student at the Lagos campus of the Nigerian Law School and was called to the bar in 1993. He later obtained a Masters (LLM) in International Commercial Law at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland.[1]

Dogara also attended a course on Managing and Leading Strategic Change in 2006, the Oxford University Course on Negotiation in 2013, and a course on Leadership in Crisis at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2014.

Professional career
He first took up employment in April 1988 as a teacher at the ATBU Staff School in Bauchi. In 1993, during the mandatory National Youth Service Corps, he served at NCCF, Akwa Ibom state. Upon completion of the NYSC programme in 1994, he went into private legal practice until 2005 when he was appointed Special Assistant to the Minister of State for Transport.

He held this position until 2006, when he decided to contest to represent the Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa-Balewa constituency at the Federal House of Representatives. His bid proved successful and he has been a member of the House since 2007.

House of Representatives – Committee Memberships, Assignments, Bills and Motions
Dogara has been a member of the Federal House of Representatives since 2007. His legislative interests include tenancy, regulating monopolies, company law, and intellectual property.[2] He has sponsored many bills and undertaken several assignments, some of which are mentioned below;

Committee MembershipsEdit
Between 2007 to 2011, Dogara chaired two House committees, namely the House Committee on Customs and Excise, and the House Services Committee. During this period, he was also a member of the House committees on Judiciary, Capital Markets and Institutions, Foreign Affairs, Rural Development and Power, among others.

During the current 2011-2015 dispensation, he has served as Chairman of the committee on House Services and Welfare, and as a member of others including Judiciary, Land Transport, Labour, Employment and Productivity, Steel Development, and Legislative Budget and Research.[3]

House Activities And AssignmentsEdit
Dogara has also served on panels and adhoc committees such as;[4]

Chairman, Nigerian Customs Service Probe Panel
Chairman, Adhoc Committee on Composition and Pigmentation of Cement in Nigeria
Chairman, House Adhoc Committee on Disbursement of Public Funds by the Bank of Industry
Member, House Contract Scam Probe Panel
Member, Hijack of fishing vessels and Maritime Security Probe Panel
Member, House Adhoc Committee on Crude Oil Theft
Member, House Adhoc Committee on Constitutional Review
Bills SponsoredEdit
In 2010, Dogara sponsored the Corporate Manslaughter[5] and the Data Protection Bill. These were followed by Federal Competition Commission Bill in 2011. In 2013, he sponsored a bill for an act to amend section 143 of the Nigerian Constitution in order to make the process of removal of the President and the Vice President (on charges of misconduct) less ambiguous.[6] In the same year, he also sponsored bills on Public Interest Disclosure,[7] and Hire Purchase.[8]

Motions SponsoredEdit
Dogara has sponsored many motions throughout the duration of his legislative career, some of which bordered on;

An alleged concession agreement between the Ministry of Finance and a technology firm which was signed in secrecy during the government transition period[9]
The indiscriminate granting of waivers, exemptions and concessions by the Federal Government[10]
The need for the Central Bank of Nigeria to implement the cashless policy in phases based on the availability of the requisite infrastructure.[11]
Urgent need for both Houses of the National Assembly to activate their constitutional powers under section 58 (1) (5) of the 1999 Constitution in relation to bills over which the President has failed to exercise constitutional responsibilities and powers under section 58 (1) and (4) of the Constitution.[12]
Hon. Dogara is currently in the race for the Speakership of the House of Representatives.[13]

Professional Affiliations
Dogara is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the Nigerian Institute of Management, the Chartered Institute of Mediators and Conciliators, the Cyber Bar Association and the Social Policy Association. He is also an associate member of the Institute of Environment Management and Assessment, and the World Jurist Association, among others.

He also serves as the Secretary of the Board of Trustees and Legal Adviser to FAcE-PAM, an NGO operating in Bauchi State.

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Good one.

Course on managing and leading strategic "CHANGE".
Hope we will see and feel the strategic change.