Hajiya Nàja'atu Mohammed
Hajiya Nàja’atu Mohammed, also known as Naja'atu Bala Muhammad, is a Nigerian politician and activist. Her father was an associate of Aminu Kano.
She was Action Congress of Nigeria Nominee for Kano Central District Senator in 2007 Nigerian General Election She is also one of the first women to have served as president of the National Students Union Nigeria in the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and also the first female Vice - President of the National Association of Nigerian Students. She claimed to have brought President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, into politics.
Early life ançd education
She was born in 1956, in the Central City of Kano into the family of Alhaji Ali Abdullahi, a socialist and one of Mallam Aminu Kano's contemporaries in the Northern Elements Progressive Union. Muhammad attended primary school at St. Louis Private School, Kano, and went to WTC Secondary School in Kano. She obtained a bachelor's degree in history from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.Personal
Hajiya Nàja’atu is the widow of Bala Muhammed, also known as Bala Mohammed Bauchi, a political adviser to Second Republic Governor Abubakar Rimi. Bauchi was assassinated on 10 July 1981 during Rimi's administration. Rimi was at odds with the powerful emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, and, on 1 April 1981, created four new emirs who were declared to be co-equal with the emir of Kano – those of Auyo, Dutse, Gaya and Rano. Rimi sought to contain emir of Kano's outsized influence. Bauchi was reportedly writing the White paper that would have carried out these directives at the time of his assassination.Hajiya Nàja’atu stated, ''"My husband, late Bala Muhammad was chopped into pieces and burnt alive for his opposition and what he was saying."''