In a bid to inject a fresh 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 take over as the new managing director of NPA, THISDAY has learnt.

Should Buhari approve the recommendation, Ms. Bala Usman, 40, will become the first female chief executive of a top tier federal government agency and of the NPA.

She shall take 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.

Sources in the presidency, who confirmed that Ms. Bala Usman’s name had been sent to the president, said Amaechi had decided to make the changes in order to overhaul the NPA.

Amaechi, it was gathered, is not particularly impressed with the way the NPA was being run and has decided to effect a change of the executive team as soon as possible.

A presidency source said that the minute Ms. Bala Usman’s name was submitted to the president, Buhari was happy to consider the recommendation, given the past relationship he had with her father, the late Prof. Yusufu Bala Usman, who was a renowned Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) academic, historian and activist before his death some years ago.

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 is currently 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 grew up close to the ABU campus where her father worked and obtained her Bachelor’s degree in 2000 from the same 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.

She shot to national prominence in 2014 when Boko Haram insurgents kidnapped 276 girls from their secondary school in Chibok, Borno State.

Following in her father’s footsteps, Ms. Bala Usman, in conjunction with the former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, co-founded the #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG), which brought global attention to the plight of the kidnapped schoolgirls.

She is married to Dr. Tanimu Yakubu, former Chief Economic Adviser to the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and they have two sons.

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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


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COMPETENCY SHOULD BE FIRST

I KNOW THERE WILL BE MUCH QUERY ON BALA USMAN's HEAD CONSIDERING WHO IS RECCOMENDING HER. ROTIMI AMAECHI

Bring Back Our Girls.

So after playing politics of terrorism with chibok girls, she is about to be rewarded.

No wonder Buhari said " Attack on BH is an attack on the North. "


Jonathan your God will vindicate you by the end of Buhari's evil government


Firefire temitemi1 onatisi

Epitome of Beauty!!!! .... on her possible appointment, I have nothing to say! Nothing!! Amechi is working his ass out to remain in PMB's government. So he can like to Recommend all his Northern Allies to PMB!

The NPA is one agency that's full of complexities. Without a prior experience, she may spend the next 1-2 years mastering the tenets of the organization.


We wish her all the best in her new role.

Another Norther again

The death of bring back our girls in nigh

Very good.
Now he should remove fashola,Adewole,and the cbn governor and replace them with northerners. Well done buhari ,kudos

That is one thing I hate about nigeria media....too much sensitization...the headline says buhari recommends someone...when you read through you see it was amaechi that recommended her...when will Nigerian media outlet have sense?!!!!!!!

At this point Oby ezekwesili has 2 options.

Accept a plum position in goverbment and get off buhari's back with the bring back our girls mantra

Or

Have a few curve balls thrown at her

ConqueredWest:
Bring Back Our Girls.

So after playing politics of terrorism with chibok girls, she is about to be rewarded.

No wonder Buhari said " Attack on BH is an attack on the North. "


Jonathan your God will vindicate you by the end of Buhari's evil government


Firefire temitemi1 onatisi

PAY BACK TIME as the continuous defense of the 250 MISSING girls turn sour.

Ms. Bala Usman, who is currently the chief of staff to the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, and a member of the All Progressives Congress .

APC una do well oooo.

Meanwhile, General Buhary has ordered several FRESH PROBE of the missing Chibok schoolgirls.

The First FRESH Probe was in 14th January 2016 , the second FRESH PROBE date was 8th July 2016.

Looking at the several cases of 'FRESH PROBING', it has now turned to PROBIT.

PROBIT => 'A unit of probability based on deviation from the mean of a standard distribution'.

She is being rewarded for her role in bringing down Jonathan's government. What's her qualifications?
Meanwhile, another Northerner.

Grundig:
The death of bring back our girls in nigh

Which BringBackOurGirls are you referring to? If you don't know, BBOG simply means Bring Back Our Government. Mission accomplished.

OLADD:


Which BringBackOurGirls are you referring to? If you don't know, BBOG simply means Bring Back Our Government. Mission accomplished.

You are in the spirit.

You have decoded what we failed to decode

ConqueredWest:
Bring Back Our Girls.

So after playing politics of terrorism with chibok girls, she is about to be rewarded.

No wonder Buhari said " Attack on BH is an attack on the North. "


Jonathan your God will vindicate you by the end of Buhari's evil government


Firefire temitemi1 onatisi

What is this one saying. God will rather strike the dunce with an untreatable illness than reward a corrupt clueless ineffectual buffoon!

OLADD:


Which BringBackOurGirls are you referring to? If you don't know, BBOG simply means Bring Back Our Government. Mission accomplished.

BRING BACK OUR GIRLS NOT APPOINTMENT.

Sealeddeal:
She is being rewarded for her role in bringing down Jonathan's government. What's her qualifications?
Meanwhile, another Northerner.

Go back and read her qualifications before u nag unnecessarily. Must u always sow hate Jeloxy

blackpanda:



What is this one saying. God will rather strike the dunce with an untreatable illness than reward a corrupt clueless ineffectual buffoon!

A typical AFONJA south west of Nigeria defending the undefendable

blackpanda:



What is this one saying. God will rather strike the dunce with an untreatable illness than reward a corrupt clueless ineffectual buffoon!

God is the ultimate judge of the Universe.

BRING BACK OUR GIRLS.


Where are the Northern Elders, PLEASE we NEED your ultimatum.

ConqueredWest:


A typical AFONJA south west of Nigeria defending the undefendable

Hateful tribalists. Thats all u guys know how to do. Just to spread hate on social media. Rubbish

blackpanda:


Hateful tribalists. Thats all u guys know how to do. Just to spread hate on social media. Rubbish

See the person calling someone else a tribalist. You're worse, your hypocrisy is top notch.

SeverusSnape:

See the person calling someone else a tribalist. You're worse, your hypocrisy is top notch.

Every morning u wake the first thing u do is to spew bile. You better go and check yourself. Anyway, I dont have ur time this morning

Amaechi did the right thing.
He has 3 ministries under him. 2 is headed by south. Is Giving 1 to North. Amechi is a Just Man.

Buhari should follow amaechi foot step in appointment.

I'm not surprised

ConqueredWest:
Bring Back Our Girls.

So after playing politics of terrorism with chibok girls, she is about to be rewarded.

No wonder Buhari said " Attack on BH is an attack on the North. "


Jonathan your God will vindicate you by the end of Buhari's evil government


Firefire temitemi1 onatisi

blackpanda:




Every morning u wake the first thing u do is to spew bile. You better go and check yourself. Anyway, I dont have ur time this morning

Can you even have my time?... Who wants to get roasted?

ConqueredWest:

A typical AFONJA south west of Nigeria defending the undefendable

who are the undefendable, just misyarning, if u dont know what to say, why not keep quiet,

AGBOKI ti take over