By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri –
Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has approved the appointments of three special advisers and a senior technical assistant.
Zulum’s spokesperson, Malam Isa Gusau, who announced this on Friday morning in a statement, said the governor appointed Alhaji Umaru Bako, Alhaji Hassan Zanna Boguma and Jibrin Yunus as special advisers whose portfolios will be allocated after their swearing-in.
Gusau noted that Governor Zulum also appointed Mohammed Abba as Senior Technical Assistant on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
The statement gave brief profiles of the four appointees in the following paragraphs:
- Alhaji Umaru Bako (Adviser):
53 years old Umaru Bako hails from Maiduguri Metropolitan Council. He holds two masters degrees: M.Sc in Environmental Management as well as Disaster Management and Development Studies both from University of Maiduguri. He holds a B.Sc in Geography also from the University of Maiduguri.
Bako started his working career with Maiduguri Capital School as Principal back 1994 before he joined Kashim Ibrahim College of Education, Maiduguri in 1998 as Assistant Lecturer I from where he rose to his present position of Senior Lecturer.
Umaru Bako, in addition to lecturing, has since 2015 served as a consultant on Community Development, Entrepreneurship and Youth Development, Environmental Management & Disaster Management.
- Alhaji Hassan Zanna Boguma (Adviser):
59 years old Hassan Zanna Boguma hails from Maiduguri Metropolitan Council. He holds two masters degrees: M.Sc in Public Administration and Masters in Public Administration both from the University of Maiduguri. He holds B.Sc in Public Administration also from the University of Maiduguri.
Boguma began his working career at the Local Government Service Commission in 1983, as Assistant Executive Officer, Administration.
He rose through the ranks to become Director of Emirate Affairs at the Borno State’s Ministry for Local Government and Emirate Affairs, where he retired in 2021.
Hassan Zanna Boguma is currently Borno State’s Project Coordinator for Youth Employment & Social Support Operations Project (BOSOCU), a World Bank assisted programme in about 15 states (or more) in Nigeria, aimed at fighting poverty through increasing access of poor and vulnerable youths to (self) employment opportunities.
- Jibrin Yunus (Adviser):
58 years old Jibrin Yunus hails from Jere Local Government Area. He holds a National Diploma in Animal Health and Husbandry from Borno State College of Agriculture in Maiduguri.
Yunus began working in 1990 as Assistant Livestock Superintendent at Borno State’s Ministry of Animal and Forest Resources.
In 1991, he joined the Nigeria Immigration Service as Senior Immigration Assistant and rose through the ranks to the position of Inspector of Immigration before his retirement in 2002.
A grassroots politician, Jibrin Yunus aspired for Vice Chairmanship position in Jere Local Government back in 2004 before he was appointed Supervisory Councilor which he served from 2004 to 2006.
Yunus had served as Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of Borno State on Housing and Rural Electrification from 2012 to 2014, and also from 2017 to 2019.
- Mohammed Abba (STA):
46 years old Mohammed Abba hails from Dikwa local government area. Appointed as Senior Technical Assistant on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), Abba holds M.Sc in Marketing and Business Management from University of Bedfordshire in the United Kingdom (UK). He holds two Bachelors Degrees: B.Sc in Business Administration (Marketing) from the University of Maiduguri and BA in Business Management from Edinburgh Napier University in the UK.
Abba began working in 2005 at the Ramat Polytechnic, Maiduguri as Assistant Lecturer. He rose to the position of Principal Lecturer in 2015.
From 2017 to date, Mohammed Abba has been working with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) as Field Coordinator in Maiduguri. The GIZ is the German Government’s development agency which operates in Nigeria and more than 100 other countries.
The GIZ provides services on international development cooperation, interventions on education and other fields that include security, reconstruction, peace-building and civil conflict transformation, food security, health, economic development and employment promotion, governance and democracy, environmental protection, resource conservation, and climate change mitigation.
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