Born
Alhaji
ALIYU
MAKAMAN BIDA
FIRST NORTHERN MINISTER OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL WELFARE LATER MINISTEROF FINANCE,TREASUREROF THENPC Aliyu Makaman Bida was born about the year 1906 in Bida in the present Niger State. His father was ahighly respeaed Qur'anic Malam in the courts of the Nobility. Even though history records that his admission into an elementary school was the direa influence of his father, his advancement in school was most definitely due to his personal ability and effort. As most children of Northern origin, Aliyu started his education in aQur'anic School in Bida before registering mthe Provincial Elementary School of the town. But unlike most children of that time Aliyu did not terminate his education at that level. He went to the everpopular Katsina College where he met majority of the co-Northerners who were later to be charged with the responsibility of not only shaping the political, economic and social fortunes of the North but leading the region as well to self government. He finishedin the Katsina college in 1927. Aliyu started enjoying the fruits of Education the same year 1927, when he was employed to teach in Niger Middle School he later he became a headmaster. He was in this position up till 1942, which time it was becoming increasinglyfashionable to employ Western educatedyoungmen into the services of theNA. system. He was taken into the Bida N.A.asa Councillor in chargeof Distria Administration and Education. What no doubt helpedyoung Aliyu up the ladder of his career were the timely courses he attended in the United Kingdom during the course of his working life. First in 1945, he was in the United Kingdom for the Local Government course; then later, he went back for the African Conference. Aliyu was in the United Kingdom again in 1952 this time for the UK Cambridge Conference on Education. It is also on record that Aliyu was amongst the sekaedfew who attended the 1953 UK Constitutional Talks with other top notchers of the Nigerian Society.
Marital Status
- Single
Name of Spouse
Father's Name
Father's Status
N/A
Mother's Name
Mother's Status
N/A
Profession
Public Servant
Working Experience
Primary
Alive
Last Update
“Please send your updated CV to: [email protected]” – Editor
© Blerf
All entries available on this Website shall be updated from time to time in order to add, modify or amend the information or contents of an existing entry. Accordingly, no legal proceedings whatsoever shall be entertained by the biographer on account of any information deemed to be inadequate or incomplete.
Recent Comments