This is a short list of some important details about the new image maker of the ruling APC replacing Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
Bolaji Abdullahi
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced Bolaji Abdullahi, former minister of youth and sports, as its spokesman.
Abdullahi was unveiled at a mini convention at Chelsea Hotel in
Abuja on Thursday to succeed Lai Mohammed who is now the Minister of
Information and Culture.
Here are seven things we know about the new publicity secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress
1. Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi was born in 1969. He
attended University of Lagos, Akoka-Lagos where he graduated with a
B.Sc. Second Class Upper degree, in Mass Communication.
2. He started his working career as a volunteer
and part-time worker in civil society organizations and international
agencies before joining ThisDay newspapers as a reporter in 1997.
In his first year as a journalist, he won a nomination for the
Nigerian Media Merit Award for the Best Newspaper Feature of the Year.
In 1998, he joined the Africa Leadership Forum, a civil society
organization based in Ota, Ogun State as a Publications Officer, and
later a Programme Officer. He returned to ThisDay in 2000 as the Deputy
Editor of ThisDay on Sunday, and become the Deputy Editor of ThisDay a
year later. However, it was for his weekly column, Grains of Wit that he
made his mark.
3. In 2001, he won the British Council Chevening
Scholarship to study for a postgraduate programme in Governance and
Development at the prestigious Institute of Development Studies (IDS),
University of Sussex, in the United Kingdom where in 2002; he bagged a
Masters Degree with Distinction.
4. In 2003, he was appointed as the Special
Assistant, Communication and Strategy to the Executive Governor of Kwara
State, Dr Bukola Saraki, and in 2005, he was appointed Special Adviser
on Policy and Strategy to the Governor. As an Assistant to the Governor,
he convened the first Kwara Education Summit in 2003, and also served
in various committees, including the State Economic Team, which
co-ordinated the production of the State Economic Empowerment and
Development Strategy (SEEDS); and the State Budget Implementation
Committee in which he served as its Chairperson.
5. Mallam Abdullahi has written over 1000
newspaper articles. He authored the Nigeria country report for the
Transparency International’s Global Corruption Report, 2003.
6. In April 2007, he was appointed as Kwara State
Commissioner of Education, Science and Technology, a position he held
until May 2011.
7. He was appointed the Minister of Youth Development by former President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, in July 2011.
He was later assigned to the Sports ministry where under his watch
Nigeria won the African Nations Cup after a nineteen year drought as
well as winning the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
Nigeria also climbed to the number one position in all three
categories of athletics under Abdullahi’s tenure as Sports minister.
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