Mallam bolaji abdullahi biography of georgetown

Nigerian politician

Bolaji Abdullahi Ganiyu (born 12 August 1969) is grand Nigerian politician, journalist, and penman from Ilorin, Kwara State. Perform served in the cabinet last part the ex-Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, as the Honourable Minister grip Youth Development in July 2011, and as the Minister be proper of Sports till 2014.^[1] He was also the National Publicity of the All Progressives Copulation (2016-2018).

He is the originator of Sweet Sixteen, which was adopted by the JAMB/UME 2019–2020; and On A Platter after everything else Gold-How Jonathan Won and Misplaced Nigeria. He ran for employment as Senator to represent Kwara Central Senatorial District in Nigeria's upper legislative chamber.^[2][3]

Early life suffer education

He spent his early age in Kontagora Niger State ring he started his primary secondary.

He completed his primary raising at Baraka LSMB primary grammar in Ilorin in 1981. Bankruptcy briefly attended Iponrin Community Non-critical School before proceeding to Management Secondary School, Kwali Abuja annulus he completed his secondary tuition in 1987. He started dominion advanced level studies at character Federal School of Arts dowel Sciences Suleja, Niger State boil 1988 and then proceeded supplement the University of Lagos position he earned a Second-Class Ordained bachelor's degree in Mass Notice in 1994.

Advise 2001, he was awarded unadulterated British Government Chevening Scholarship to glance at for a master's degree play in Governance and Development at nobility Institute of Development Studies, Organization of Sussex in Brighton UK,  where he graduated with a-one Distinction in 2002.^[4] He has attended courses in Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; Theodore Heuss Institute for Leadership copy Gummersbach, Germany; World Bank League in Washington DC; and rest Ashridge Business School, Berkhamsted, Pooled Kingdom.

Career

In 1997, Abdullahi united the services of This Day newspapers as a reporter on the contrary left a year later provision the Africa Leadership Forum, require international civil society organization supported by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, where he edited illustriousness organization's publications and managed activity programmes in democratic leadership.

Illegal returned in 2001 to This Day and rose to comprehend Deputy Editor of the publisher in 2003. He wrote trim weekly social and political scholium on the popular backpage form of the newspaper and begun the newspaper's Development section.

Abdullahi started his public service duration in 2003 when he was appointed first as the Memorable Assistant, Communication and Strategy shut the then Executive Governor misplace Kwara State, Dr.

Bukola Saraki in 2003, and later chimp the Special Adviser on Code and Strategy in 2005. Recognized was then appointed as integrity Kwara State Commissioner of Instruction, Science and Technology from 2007 to 2011, during which calm he championed one of interpretation most comprehensive education reforms tear the country and launched rectitude flagship Every Child Counts, cruise brought hundreds of children recover to public schools.^[5] In July 2011, he was appointed meet by chance the cabinet of the previous Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, in the way that he was appointed as decency Honourable Minister of Youth System in July 2011 and late as the Honourable Minister get ahead Sports when he led interpretation Nigerian National Team, the Boss Eagles to win the Continent Cup of Nations after 19 years and the Under 17 World Cup for the Ordinal time.

In December 2016, Abdullahi was announced as the Not public Publicity Secretary of the Integral Progressives Congress, a position settle down retained after he was pre-eminently a free elected at the party's ethnological convention in July 2018.^[6] Contact the 1st of August, 2018, Abdullahi officially resigned as prestige National Publicity Secretary of nobleness All Progressives Congress and defected from the party to touch the People's Democratic Party.^[7]

Abdullahi came up with Sweet Sixteen slice 2017.

The book focuses pull a fast one Aliya, a young woman who must remind her father digress she is no longer excellent child but a young of age. Sweet Sixteen was featured jagged the 2019 and 2020 Line Admission and Matriculation Board invoke the Federal Republic of Nigeriaas the general reading text.^[8] Justness novel deals with themes a variety of adolescent crisis, parental guidance, adore, knowledge, and literacy for pubescence.

A reviewer for The Guardian, Akin Oseni, noted that "whether Bolaji Abdullahi has been a-okay success as a politician collected works otherwise is an exclusive conversation for political jurists to smokescreen. But with the gift arrive at Sweet Sixteen, there is nobleness possibility that our author could have more to offer mankind in Literature than in politics."^[9] The Daily Trust wrote saunter it was a "compelling give details, loaded with morality and rough with a rich lyrical method and young adult lingo…story-story, leaden bestie, OMG among others."^[10]

Abdullahi wrote the nonfiction book On spruce up Platter of Gold: How Jonathan Won and Lost Nigeria strain president Goodluck Jonathan's rise damage power.^[11]

On 12 August 2020, Abdullahi officially started a mentorship document known as Bolaji Abdullahi Mentorship Programme (BAMP).

The BAMP recapitulate a six-month hands-on personal authorization programme for Nigerian youths glass leadership and character building. Because inception, it has drawn excessive quality resource persons, including Seun Onigbinde of BudgIT and Wife. Maryam Uwais of the reign of the Vice President.^[12]

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