President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a 40 year old female activist, Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman as Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), with effect from July 11.
She takes over from Alhaji Habib Abdullahi, who was reinstated by Buhari in August 2015 as the managing director of NPA, after he was sacked by former President Goodluck Jonathan in April 2015.
Hadiza Bala Usman is the founder of Bring Back Our Girls Campaign, with hash tag: #BringBackOurGirls. She is coming in as the first female chief executive of a top tier federal government agency and of the NPA.
The new Managing Director had earlier, in July 2015, been appointed by Governor Nasiru Ahmed el-Rufai of Kaduna state as his Chief of Staff, a position she held until her new appointment.
Buhari also appointed Mohammed Bello-Koko as the Executive Director (Finance), Professor Idris Abubakar as Executive Director (Engineering) and Dr. Sekonte Davies as Executive Director (Marine Operations) in the same NPA. [myad]
