Musa Babayo
Musa Babayo is a Nigerian banker, businessman, politician, and elder states-man who was the National Secretary of the PDP National Working Committee from 2012 to 2015 prior to joining the All Progressives Congress on 15 October 2015. He was the Deputy National Secretary of the party from 2008 to 2011 before later becoming the National Secretary.
Early life and education
Musa was born and raised in Azare, Katagum local government, Bauchi state. He attended the Nasarawa West Primary School, Azare, 1965–1972 then to Katagum Government Secondary school, Azare from 1972 to 1976. He further attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where he earned Bachelor of Science in administration, banking and finance. He went to Manchester Business School, UK for Senior Bankers course, June 1993, and University of Wales [Institute of Science and Technology], UK for master's degree in management and technology, 1984.In 2001, he got a PhD at the University of Abuja, FCT, Nigeria.
Professional career
In between his political career, Babayo has held different public and private offices. As a senior civil servant, he was the Chairman of the Education Trust Fund and the chairman Board of Trustees TETFund, an appointment that was structured to last for a term of four years although the board was dissolved 2 years before the termination of his tenure on 16 July 2015.TETFund
As the chairman of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Babayo managed the transition that led to the repeal of the 1998 Tax Act and its replacement with the TetFund Establishment Act of July 2011.In 2013, the institution admitted National Open University of Nigeria, as a beneficiary of the fund, and relocation of the university from Lagos to its permanent site in Abuja through the provision of the critical educational infrastructure.
In 2015, he introduced the capacity building programme known as Academic Staff Training and Development where over 26,000 academics were covered on the programme pursuing MSc's and PhD's. As at then, the ASTD was known as the biggest capacity building programme funded by a public treasury in the world.
During his chairmanship, Babayo introduced conference attendance for Tertiary Institutions academics and over 30,000 academics were recorded to have benefitted from the programme.
He started the introduction of the Almajiri model schools during the former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan's regime in 19 Northern states and Edo. 100 of such schools were built and functioning with full pupils’ enrolments. An allocation of N2B was made for the project on take-off in 2010.
Other projects of the TETFund were carried out before the end of his tenure.