Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai has appointed a new Chief of Staff. She is Hadiza Bala Usman, a prominent figure in the All Progressives Congress where she has served in a number of committees and capacities, key among which were: the Administrative Secretary of the Buhari Presidential Campaign Organization; Secretary, APC Elections Planning Committee and Member, APC Strategy Committee.
Ms. Usman was born in Zaria where her father, the famous radical historian, Yusufu Bala Usman, was lecturing at the university. Dr. Yusufu Bala Usman himself later became Secretary to the Kaduna State government during the Balarabe Musa administration.
Ms. Usman worked at the Bureau Of Public Enterprises (BPE) from 2000 until 2004, when she was hired by the UNDP for the Federal Capital Territory Administration [FCTA] from October 2004 – January 2008 as a Special Assistant to the FCT Minister on Project Implementation.
Since 2011, she has been Director of Strategy for the Good Governance Group (3G). In April 2014, she co-founded the global movement #BringBackOurGirls which has been demanding for the rescue of the 219 young girls abducted by Boko Haram from Chibok Secondary School in Borno State North East Nigeria.
Financial Times (FT) named her amongst the most influential women of 2014, while CNN chose her as the most inspiring woman of 2014. Ebony Magazine also named her amongst the 100 most influential black women in the world in 2014.
