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| Alhaja Safurat Olayinka Abdulkarim |
One
of these women will be the Deputy Governor of Lagos State comes May, 2015. PDP’s Alhaja Safurat Olayinka Abdulkarim,
is Jimi Agbaje’s running mate, while Dr Idiat Oluranti Adebule is APC’s Ambode
Akuniwunmi’s running mate, are at the fore-front deputies
for now except another party becomes more relevant
than PDP or APC in Lagos.
Now read their profiles after
the cut.....
Alhaja Safurat
Olayinka Abdulkarim was born 23rd June 1961 to the Muslim family of Mr.
Abdulmananu Mofolorunsho Layode and Mrs. Risikat Ayinke Layode, Safurat has her
roots in the indigenous Egun and Awori extractions of Lagos.
Her father
hailed from Layode compound in Awhonjigoh Quarters, Badagry, while her mother
came from the famous Akibon family, a lineage of warriors from Akogun
Compound in Iba Town, in present day Ojo Local Government.
With a Master of
Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Ado-Ekiti
in 2007, Safurat began her educational life in Ansar-ud-Deen Primary School,
Badagry, Lagos, between 1966 and 1972.
From 1975 to
1980, she attended Government Teachers’ College, Badagry, where she obtained a
Teacher’s Grade II Certificate.
She thereafter
proceeded to the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, from 1985 to 1987 for an
Ordinary National Diploma (OND) in Accounting, followed by a Higher National
Diploma (HND) from the Kano State Polytechnic (1990).
In 2006, she
completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Management from the University of
Ado-Ekiti.
Starting out in
her career as an Accounting Officer with Bintu Binta Trading Company, Kano, in
1987, Mrs. Abdulkarim later returned to the South-West, where she rose to
become the General Manager of the Ikeja, Lagos-based Disk Engineering Limited
(1990 to 1996), and thereafter Managing Director of Transmit Network (1996 to
1999).
Between 1998 and
1999, this staunch member of the Nasrul-Lahi-l-Fatih Society of Nigeria
(NASFAT) was appointed Vice Chairman and Supervisory Councillor in the
Caretaker Committee of Badagry Local Government.
Safurat is married
to Wing-Commander Bala Abdulkarim (Rtd), with whom she has children.
APC’s Dr Idiat
Oluranti Adebule:
Dr Idiat
Oluranti Adebule was born in Lagos State to the family of Idowu-Esho of Ojo
Alaworo in Ojo Local Government Area of the state.
The Secretary to
the State Government began her early education at Awori College, Ojo.
Thereafter, she proceeded on admission to the Lagos State University, Ojo,
bagging a Bachelor of Art in Education degree in Islamic Studies in 1992.
Adebule was back
at the same institution for a Master's degree (M.Ed) in Curriculum Studies
graduating in 1997.
She then bagged
a certificate in Early Childhood Development Curriculum and School Administration and
Assessment from the Nigeria Institute of International Education Association in
2006.
She enrolled and
completed her Doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in Curriculum Studies in 2012 also at
the Lagos State University.
Dr Adebule began
her working career as an academic at Lagos State College of Primary
Education (LACOPED), Noforija, Epe, as a lecturer in the department of
Religious Studies and later transferred her service to the Lagos State
University as a lecturer in the department of Curriculum Studies and later
Language Arts and Social
Studies in the
Faculty of Education.
While at the
university, she served as
member on
various university committees including Committee on Establishment of LASU
InternationalSecondary School; LASU Staff School Monitoring Committee;
Member, Association of Learners, and Co-ordinator, LASU Sandwich
Degree Programme, Osun State College ofEducation, Ilesha Campus.
Her political
career began when she was appointed as a Commissioner 1 in the Lagos State Post
Primary Teaching Service Commission (PP-TESCOM), now Teachers' Establishment
and Pensions Office, by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in October 2000 to February 2005
and later as board member of the Lagos State Scholarship Board from February
2005 to November 2005.
Adebule was
appointed and sworn in as the Secretary to the State Government by the administration of
Governor Raji Fashola in July, 2011.
A consummate
writer, Adebule, has several local, national and international publications to
her credit. These included 'Reading The Objective Of Universal Basic Education
in Nigeria', 'The Imperative of Religion and Peace in the Quest for Sustainable
Development in Nigeria:
The Plateau
State Experience', 'TheEffective Use of Educational Technology for Religious
Teaching: Learning amongst Secondary Schools in Lagos State, Nigeria'
to mention a few.
A wife, a
mother, a mentor, a believer in the development of future leaders and a
politician of repute, Dr Adebule's interests include reading, travelling and
community service.
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| Dr Idiat Oluranti Adebule |
