TPP Associate appointed Education Minister in Nigeria
We are delighted to announce that our longstanding Associate Dr Suwaiba Ahmad who has been appointed by Nigeria's President as the new Federal Minister of State Education.
Suwaiba has been working in the field of education for nearly two decades. She is a gender advocate and the Director of Bayero University's Centre for Gender Studies in Kano, Northern Nigeria, where she was recently promoted to Professor. Her consultancy portfolio centres on governance and development, in the areas of political economy and institutional analysis, policy planning, development and strategy, capacity building and training.
Suwaiba has been working with TPP to provide advice to the UK's Partnership for Learning for All in Nigeria education programme. She also contributed to TPP's flagship report on 20 years of UK governance programming in Nigeria, in particular the case study of Jigawa state, where she was born.
We wish her all possible success. From our experience of working closely with her, we know that she will bring a combination of hard work, personal integrity, passion for education and political realism to her new role.
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TPP supports innovative apiculture initiative in the Republic of Congo
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