PMB Appoints Hadiza Bala Usman As NPA Head

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, July 12,

appointed Mrs Hadiza Bala-Usman as the managing

director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA).

In a statement signed by the director of press, federal

ministry of transportation, Yetunde Sonaike in Abuja, she

named three other appointments which are Mohammed

Bello-Koko as Executive Director, Finance; Prof. Idris

Abubakar, Executive Director Engineering; Dr Sekonte

Davies as Executive Director, Marine Operations.

Usman was born on January 2, 1976 in Zaria, Kaduna state

and has a B.Sc. Business Administration from Ahmadu

Bello University (ABU), Zaria and a post graduate in

Development Studies from University of Leeds, UK in

2009.

She worked at Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) from

July 2000 to August 2004 as Enterprise Officer.

Ms Usman worked for the UNDP for the Federal Capital

Territory Administration (FCTA) from October 2004 to

January 2008 as Special Assistant to the Minister on

Project Implementation.

The new NPA boss worked as director of strategy of Good

Governance Group, a non-governmental organisation

from 2011 to July 2015 before her appointment as chief of

staff to Governor El-Rufai of Kaduna State, a position she

held until the present appointment.

She is a co-founder of the #BringBackOurGirls movement

that has been at the forefront of demanding the release of

more than 200 Chibok girls that were abducted by Boko

Haram.