PROFILE ON MEMBER FROM JIBIYA/KAITA FEDERAL CONSTITUENCY
HONOURABLE DR. USMAN BUGAJE
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NAME: Usman Muhammad Bugaje. DATE OF BIRTH: 11/9/51 PLACE OF BIRTH: Bugaje, Katsina, Nigeria. NATIONALITY: Nigerian. MARITAL STATUS: Married with Children WEBSITE: www.webstar.co.uk/~ubugaje EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
COURSES ATTENDED: 2000 Senior Managers in Government - Harvard University JFK School of Government. 2002 Managing Pol. & Econ. Reform - Harvard University JFK School of Government. WORK EXPERIENCE July 1975 - June 1976 - Staff Pharmacist, Gen. Hospital, Kano, Nigeria. July 1976 - June 1977 - Staff Pharmacist, (NYSC), Umaahia, Nigeria. July 1977 - August 1978 - Graduate Assistant, Department of Pharmaceutics, A.B.U., Zaria, Nigeria. Jan. 1982 - June. 1991, - Director, ITN, Zaria, Nigeria.
Jan. 1982 – June 1986, - Lecturer at Dept. of Education, A.B.U. Zaria. Jan. 1988 – 89 - Researcher & Lecturer at History Department, University of Maiduguri. July 1991 – June 1995, - Secretary General, Islam in Africa Organization, Abuja, Nigeria. July 1995 – Dec. 1999, - (Founding) Chairman, (NJ) Network for Justice, Kaduna, Nigeria. June 1999 – November 2002 - Special Adviser (Political) to the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. June 2000 to date - Project Coordinator, National Development Project (Ltd/Gte). April 2003 - Member – elect House of Representatives. COMMITTEE WORK Date Position Task 1993/94 Member, Org. Committee Rehabilitation of Education in Katsina State.
1995 Member of Committee (CRC) Constitution Review Committee. 1997 – Date Member G-18, G-34. 1999 Member, Central Committee Transition Monitoring Group. 1999/02 Vice President’s Coordinator National Boundary Commission. 1999/02 Vice President’s Coordinator Hajj Affairs. 1999/02 Vice President’s Coordinator Liaison with the National Assembly. 2000 Coordinator Reception 2000. 2000/02 Member, Org. Committee Northern Education Summit. 2000/02 Member of VP’s team Nigeria – South Africa Bilateral Summit. 2000/01 Member, Nigeria – Equatorial Guinea Joint Ministerial Committee. 2000/02 Coordinator, Non – Arab Africa Hajj Awareness Programme. 2001 Presidential Envoy Resolution of Sudan Conflict. 2001 Vice President’s Coordinator Gulf of Guinea Commission. 2001 – Date Member Governing Board, IRCICA, Istanbul, Turkey. 2002 Chairman, Org. Committee 1st Roundtable on Industrial Development in the Northern States. SPECIAL HONOURS Conferred the honorary title of Commander of the Order of Civil Merit and Commander of the Order of Independent Equatorial Guinea by the President of Republic of Equatorial Guinea on 26th March 2002. PUBLICATIONS A prolific writer of on national and international issues, he has academic and non-academic published works as well as book reviews to his credit, ( some of which are to be found on website: www.webstar.co.uk/~ubugaje) for instance: 1. “When Silence is not Golden”. 2. “Sokoto Caliphate in Modern Nigeria: Ending it, Mending it or Re-inventing it? 3. “Questioning the National Question”. 4. “War by other Means”. 5. “Why Democracies Fail” 6. “The Cause of Martin Luther King and the Quest for Freedom, Equity and Responsible Leadership in Nigeria Today”. MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND SCHOLARLY BODIES · Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (MPSN) · Member of the Historical Society of Nigeria (MHSN) · Member of Editorial Board of The Nigerian Journal of Islam, CILS, ABU Zaria, Nigeria. · Consultant Editor, ENCOUNTERS, Journal of Inter-cultural Perspective, Markfield Conference Centre, Leicester, UK. · Member of the Governing Council of International University of Africa, Khartoum, Sudan. · Former member of the Governing Council of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria. · Secretary, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigerian Students (PANS) ABU, 1972 / 73 · President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigerian Students (PANS) ABU, 1974 / 75 · National President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigerian Students (PANS) 1974 / 75 TRAVEL AND CONFERENCES Widely travelled in Africa and Middle East. Visited Europe regularly since 1978 (especially the UK), United States and the Caribbean. Attended and Organized some International Conferences. Some Such Conferences included: · International Conference on Islam and Social Justice, April 1978, held at the Institute Of Administration, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. · International Conference on Afro-Arab Relations, May 1983, Amman, Jordan. · Islam in Africa Conference, 24-28 November, 1989, Abuja, Nigeria. · International Conference on Islamic Identities in sub-Saharan Africa, April 1991, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London, UK. · The Sixth International Congress of African Studies, 11-14 December, 1991, The Institute of African and Asian Studies, University of Khartoum, Sudan. · International Symposium in Honour of Shaykh Uthman bin Fodi, Organised by International University of Africa, Khartoum, Sudan, and Islamic, Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation, (ISESCO), Rabat, Morocco, Held at Khartoum, Sudan. 19th - 21st November, 1995. · International Workshop on Islamic Political Economy in Capitalist Globalisation: An Agenda for Change; Organised by the University of Science Malaysia, at Penang, Malaysia, 12-14 December, 1994. · Workshop on The Nigerian Democratisation Process and the European Union, at CEAN - IEP de Bordeaux, France. 12-14 September, 1996. · Second Annual Congress of International Business Forum on ‘Global Business Network Among Muslim Nations’, Held at Istanbul, Turkey. November 20-22, 1996. LANGUAGES SPOKEN Hausa, English and Arabic. |
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