Hadiza Bala Usman Is The New Managing Director NPA

H adiza Bala Usman has been appointed Managing Director of Nigerian

Ports Authority (NPA).
A statement by Yetunde Sonaike on behalf of the Minister of Trasport, Rotimi
Amaechi, said President Muhammadu Buhari made the appointment, which took
effect yesterday.
Other appointments, all of which also took effect yesterday, are Mohammed
Bello-Koko (Executive Director, Finance; Prof. Idris Abubakar (Executive Director,
Engineering); and Dr. Sekonte Davies (Executive Director, Marine Operations).
Mrs. Usman, 40 and an indigene of Kaduna State, was previously Chief of Staff
to Malam Nasir El-Rufai, the current governor of that state.
She holds a B.Sc. Degree in Business Administration from Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria and a Post Graduate in Development Studies from the
University of Leeds, the United Kingdom in 2009.
She started her Career in June 2000as a Research Assistant with the Centre for
Democratic Development and Research Training, Zaria, a non-governmental
organization. Between July 2000 and August 2004, she worked at the Bureau of
Public Enterprises as an Enterprise Officer.
She was hired by the UNDP for the Federal Capital Territory Administration from
October 2004 to January 2008 as a Special Assistant to the Minister on Project
Implementation. She worked as Director of Strategy of Good Governance Group,
another non-governmental organization, from 2011 to July 2015.