5 Things You Need To Know About New INEC Chairman, Yakubu

President Muhammadu Buhari has announced a professor of political
history and international studies, Mahmood Yakubu, as new chairman of
the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) read more.

Read five things about the newly appointed INEC boss.
Yakubu, a professor of political history and international studies,
was Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund.

He is an expert in guerrilla warfare, terrorism and counter-terrorism.

He was an Assistant Secretary, Finance and Administration, at the 2014
National Conference under the Jonathan led administration.

Professor Yakubu, is the first and only first class graduate of
history from the North till date,who was on secondment from the
Nigeria Defense Academy where he was a lecturer to the Federal
Ministry of Education.

He was a member of the very dynamic Oby Ezekwesili Educational
Transformation Team which received plaudits from Nigerians for their
far reaching recommendations for the turn around of the fortunes of
education in Nigeria.

-Vanguard