Muhammad Kudu Haruna

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Muhammad Kudu Haruna
Born
Muhammad Kudu

(1951-09-22) 22 September 1951 (age 72)
Ibadan, Nigeria
NationalityNigerian
Other namesChieftains title Sarkin samarin Nupawa
Education Government College Bida

Ahmadu Bello University Glasgow College of Technology Harvard Advanced Management

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University of Columbia
Alma materGovernment College Bida
ABU Zaria
Occupations
  • Electoral committees and commissioner
  • Newspaper Properties
  • Lecturing
TitleCommissioner of Independent National Electoral Commission, (Kwara, Kogi and Kaduna)
TermSeptember 2015

Muhammad Kudu Haruna (22 September 1951) is a Nigerian journalist, political columnist, administrator and Resident Electoral Commissioner of the INEC since 2015. [1] [2] [3] He is among the six members appointed INEC commissioners, he is committing the Kwara, Kogi and Kaduna State. [4] [5] He assumed office in September 2016. [6]

Background

Born in Ibadan and hails from Bida central Nigeria but grew up in Kano State. He had his education from 1957 to 1960 at Tudun Wada Primary School Kano and Kuka School Kano finished in 1964 then he returned to his home and had senior certificate in Government College Bida, from 1965 to 1968 then in 1971 to 1975 he graduated from Ahmadu Bello University, Kaduna and head to Glosgow College of Technology, Scotland from 1979 finished in 1980 he also attended school of journalism at Columbia University finished in 1984 and in 1995 he attend Harvard Advanced Management Programme. [7] [8] [9] [10]

He began his career as reporter at New Nigerian Newspapers Company Limited in 1976 and became managing director in 1989 was also co-founding member and chief executive of Citizen News Magazine in 90s later in 1998 third republic when General Abdulsalami Abubakar became head of state he was his chief-press Secretary till 1999 and taught in Ahmadu Bello University under the department of mass communications in 2008 to 2014 as senior lecturer and also he works for New Nigerian Today, Gamji, The Nation and Daily Trust together with New Diary online. He had also works with the Press Council delivering papers on politics, journalism, seminars, workshops organized by institutions and lectures also he works with the Nigerian Guild of Editors and national commissioners of Independent National Electoral Commission was member of African Center for Democratic Governance, Technical Committee on Privatization and Commercialization in Nigerian Television Authority Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria he also served as director News Agency of Nigeria, Forte Oil and Conoil and member Vision 2010 Committee, Vision 2020 Committee and People's Bank. [11] [7] [12]

Kudu Haruna is a close and most associated person to political actors and actress in Nigeria and that of the old generation players that designed the 1999 constitution in the country. [3]

Position in Electoral committee

Such positions held in INEC include [13] [14]

Notes

  1. Admin (2018-04-26). "HARUNA, Mallam Mohammed Kudu". Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  2. Al-Ghazali, Muhammad (2016-09-20). "In celebration of Mohammed Haruna". Daily Trust. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  3. 1 2 "Partisanship concerns and selection of INEC commissioners" . Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  4. "As Buhari swears in 6 new INEC commissioners...28 states still without RECs". nggovernorsforum.org. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  5. "Buhari Swears In 6 INEC Commissioners". Sahara Reporters. 2016-12-07. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  6. OBIEJESI, Kingsley (2019-02-18). "Here are the INEC personnel responsible for Saturday's election postponement". The ICIR. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  7. 1 2 "Mallam Mohammed Kudu Haruna – National Commissioner – Official Newspaper of the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria" . Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  8. Habeeb I, Pindiga (2010). "The New INEC Commissioners". Allafrica. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  9. "National Commissioners – INEC Nigeria". www.inecnigeria.org. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  10. Who's who in Nigeria. Newswatch. 1990. ISBN   978-978-2704-12-2.
  11. "Mohammed Kudu Haruna: A journalism guru at 65". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. 2016-09-21. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  12. Media World Yearbook: A Directory of the Nigerian Media. Diamond Publications. 2004.
  13. "INEC Committees and Chairpersons – INEC Nigeria". www.inecnigeria.org. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  14. "2019: INEC promotes 2,209 personnel". Punch Newspapers. Retrieved 2020-08-29.

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