President Buhari Appoints a New Special Adviser, Guess What? She is a Female (PHOTO)

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Abuja-based lawyer and activist, Maryam Uwais, as his Special Adviser for Social Protection Plan.

A presidency source familiar with the matter told us Mrs Uwais, wife of Muhammadu Uwais, a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, was appointed weeks ago. The lawyer, has been deployed to the office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, where she is coordinating the administration’s social protection schemes, including a N60 Billion micro-credit scheme for artisans and market women.
Mrs. Uwais is a respected lawyer with over 30 years experience, including serving as principal partner at Wali Uwais & Co, an Abuja-based law firm. The special adviser graduated with an LL.B from the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, in 1980 and was called to the bar in 1981, after attending the Nigerian Law School, Lagos.
In 1985, she bagged a Masters in Law from the same university. Mrs Uwais worked at the Kano State Ministry of Justice between 1980 and 1987. Between 1988 and 1989, she was at the Nigerian Law Reform Commission, before moving on to the Central Bank of Nigeria where she remained till 1998. Until her appointment, she was Principal Partner, Wali-Uwais & Co., an Abuja-based law firm

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Posted: at 18-01-2016 09:56 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Make she deliver nah him be my own,if he like make PMB pack all him family members put 4 Govt.

Posted: at 18-01-2016 10:14 AM (8 years ago) | Hero

If you be Adviser, advise well no de take bribe.

Posted: at 18-01-2016 10:28 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

that's  Good

Posted: at 18-01-2016 10:48 AM (8 years ago) | Hero

I was expecting him to give that position to igbo woman so that this people will know that they are not left out

Posted: at 18-01-2016 11:07 AM (8 years ago) | Hero

Congrats woman

Posted: at 18-01-2016 04:18 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

يراقب الله !!!

Posted: at 18-01-2016 06:19 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Good job

Posted: at 19-01-2016 01:07 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac