Niger State Government Executive Council
The Chief Servant of Niger State, Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu, OON, (Talban Minna), was born on November 12, 1955 in Chanchaga Local Government Area of Niger State to late Alhaji Aliyu Mu'azu, the first Magajin Gari and later Sarkin TYakin Minna, and Hajiya Jamila, a princess in the Mallawa ruling house of Zazzau Emirate.
He received his primary education at Central Primary School (now IBB Primary School, Minna) and other primary schools in Kuta and Sokoto between 1963 and 1969. Later, he proceeded to Sokoto College of Arts and Arabic Legal Studies (now, Sheikh Mahmoud Gumi College) from 1970 to 1974, where he obtained Grade II Teachers' Certificate. He then proceeded to the College of Education, Sokoto, between 1974 and 1977 and obtained the Nigerian Certificate in Education (NCE).
Between 1977 and 1978, Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu served the mandatory NYSC programme where he taught at Jubril Martins Memorial Grammar School, Iponri, Lagos. On completion of the NYSC programme, he returned home and joined the Niger State Ministry of Education as Master III and later Master II between 1977 and 1983.
Between that period, Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu resumed his educational pursuit by enrolling into Bayero University Kano between 1980 and 1983, where he graduated with BA (Bachelor of Arts) Education in 1983. In the same year, he withdrew his service with the Niger State Government and contested and won the election into the Federal House of Representatives, representing Minna South Federal Constituency. After the sack of the National Assembly by the Military takeover of December 1983, Dr. Babangida Aliyu joined the College of Education, Sokoto as a lecturer in 1984.
In 1985, Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu proceeded to the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, to pursue a Masters' Degree in Public and International Affairs which he successfully completed in August 1986.In September 1986, he immediately enrolled for a Ph.D. in Strategic Studies and Political Economy, a course he completed in 1989.
On his return to Nigeria, Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu took up appointment as the Chief Political Affairs Officer where he rose to the position of Assistant Director and Head of Unit of the International Affairs and Political Analysis in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. By 1992, he was promoted and deployed as Director of Administration and Finance, National Council of Inter-Governmental Relations, where he served as pioneering Director in charge of setting administrative
and financial structures for the new organization. In August 1993, he was posted as Director in the Cabinet Secretariat of the Presidency where he was concurrently assigned to serve the Constitutional Conference Commission from 1994 to 1995.
He also served as Acting Director General in the Cabinet Secretariat of the Presidency between 1994 and May 1995. Between October 1995 and April 1996, Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu was deployed as Director/ Special Assistant to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. He was later posted to the Ministry of Transport as Director Maritime Services between August 1996 and April 1999. From March 18 to June 16, 1999, Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu was appointed and deployed to the Ministry of Youths and Sports as Permanent Secretary, after which he was once again redeployed to the Cabinet Secretariat of the Presidency.
In February 2001, he was posted on a rescue mission to the Ministry of Federal Capital Territory. As a scholarly and articulate Permanent Secretary, he was there till December 2003. Between 2004 and 2005, he was at the National Planning Commission and later got deployed to the Federal Ministry of Transport in May 2005 to December 2006, and made his mark until he was redeployed in January 2007 to Establishment and Pensions Office in the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation as the Permanent Secretary/Chief Operating and Accounting Officer, thereby reaching the peak of his public career. It was at this particular point that he obeyed the clarion and divine call, at precisely 1.15am, to come home and salvage Niger State when he was nominated as the PDP Gubernatorial Candidate for the April 14 Elections, of which he won a historic landslide victory.
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Between 1977 and 1978, Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu served the mandatory NYSC programme where he taught at Jubril Martins Memorial Grammar School, Iponri, Lagos. On completion of the NYSC programme, he returned home and joined the Niger State Ministry of Education as Master III and later Master II between 1977 and 1983.
Between that period, Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu resumed his educational pursuit by enrolling into Bayero University Kano between 1980 and 1983, where he graduated with BA (Bachelor of Arts) Education in 1983. In the same year, he withdrew his service with the Niger State Government and contested and won the election into the Federal House of Representatives, representing Minna South Federal Constituency. After the sack of the National Assembly by the Military takeover of December 1983, Dr. Babangida Aliyu joined the College of Education, Sokoto as a lecturer in 1984.
In 1985, Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu proceeded to the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, to pursue a Masters' Degree in Public and International Affairs which he successfully completed in August 1986.In September 1986, he immediately enrolled for a Ph.D. in Strategic Studies and Political Economy, a course he completed in 1989.
On his return to Nigeria, Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu took up appointment as the Chief Political Affairs Officer where he rose to the position of Assistant Director and Head of Unit of the International Affairs and Political Analysis in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. By 1992, he was promoted and deployed as Director of Administration and Finance, National Council of Inter-Governmental Relations, where he served as pioneering Director in charge of setting administrative
and financial structures for the new organization. In August 1993, he was posted as Director in the Cabinet Secretariat of the Presidency where he was concurrently assigned to serve the Constitutional Conference Commission from 1994 to 1995.
He also served as Acting Director General in the Cabinet Secretariat of the Presidency between 1994 and May 1995. Between October 1995 and April 1996, Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu was deployed as Director/ Special Assistant to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. He was later posted to the Ministry of Transport as Director Maritime Services between August 1996 and April 1999. From March 18 to June 16, 1999, Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu was appointed and deployed to the Ministry of Youths and Sports as Permanent Secretary, after which he was once again redeployed to the Cabinet Secretariat of the Presidency.
In February 2001, he was posted on a rescue mission to the Ministry of Federal Capital Territory. As a scholarly and articulate Permanent Secretary, he was there till December 2003. Between 2004 and 2005, he was at the National Planning Commission and later got deployed to the Federal Ministry of Transport in May 2005 to December 2006, and made his mark until he was redeployed in January 2007 to Establishment and Pensions Office in the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation as the Permanent Secretary/Chief Operating and Accounting Officer, thereby reaching the peak of his public career. It was at this particular point that he obeyed the clarion and divine call, at precisely 1.15am, to come home and salvage Niger State when he was nominated as the PDP Gubernatorial Candidate for the April 14 Elections, of which he won a historic landslide victory.
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