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EL-RUFAI, Mallam Nasir Ahmad, politician, quantity surveyor, administrator and Kaduna State Governor is
57. He was born in Daudawa, Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State in 1960 and educated at prestigious Barewa College, where he graduated at the top of the class, winning the coveted “Barewa Old Boys” Association Academic Achievement Trophy in 1976; he later proceeded to Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and earned a Bachelor degree in Quantity Surveying with First Class Honors. He also attended post-graduate programmes at Harvard Business School and Georgetown University. Since leaving public service, Nasir has completed an LL.B degree from the University of London, graduating in August 2008 with Second Class Honors, Upper Division, and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in June
2009.
He also received the Kennedy School Certificate in Public Policy and Management having spent 11 months as an Edward A. Mason Fellow in Public Policy and Management from July 2008 to June 2009. He was a former Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, the head privatization agency in Nige- ria and also former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja from July 16, 2003 to May 29, 2007. He served as an adviser in the Transition government of General Abdulsalami Abubakar.
He established a Quantity Surveying firm in 1982 with three other partners. In 2015, he contested for the governorship seat in Kaduna State, under the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), which he won. NWUCHE, Hon. Prince Chibudom, politician, lawyer, businessman and former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives will be 56 on Saturday, September 30, 2017. Born on September 30, 1961 at Enugu, he hails from Ochigba town in Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State. He read law, Politics, Philosophy, History and Astronomy, all in the United Kingdom.
In 1999, Nwuche ran for the seat of Ahoada East/abua Odual Federal Constituency of Rivers State in the Nigerian House of Representatives. He won the election and entered the National in 1999, and on June 4, 1999, he was elected Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives. While in this position, he served as Vice Chairman, National Assembly Joint Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution.
He is principal partner of Rayfield Associates, a law firm and Chairman/director of several companies. He is also a patron of a number of non-governmental organisations (NGOS), including the Foundation for Youth Development (FYD) and Citizens for Change. He was the deputy presiding officer at the Green Chambers of the National Assembly from the inception of the current democratic dispensation between 1999 and 2003.