Hon Sagir Musa Ahmed

Biography

Meet Commissioner of Land, Jigawa State Government, Nigeria!!

Honorable Sagir Musa Ahmed, a native of Tawankalta Town in Kiri-Kasamma Local Government of Jigawa State.

He attended both primary and secondary education in Kaduna State. Sagir later attended Bayero University Kano where he obtains BA Library and Information Science/Political Science in the year 2005. Much later Sagir proceeded to University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom for Master Degree in Information Systems Management and graduated with Distinction.

As an upcoming Leader, Sagir belonged to several student bodies during his undergraduate and postgraduate. This unique orientation prepares his academic and intellectual rigour that later became his life philosophy to set and achieve unimaginable goals at both personal and professional levels.

Sagir has served as a Foriegn Service National (FSN) at the U.S. Department of States as the Director Information Resource Center (IRC), US Embassy Abuja Nigeria. Prior to that, he has served at different capacities within the Nigerian Government before joining the U.S. Government. Notably at the Office of the National Security Advisor (ONSA), Presidency Nigeria between 2012 – 2016. Sagir had earlier served at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) 2008- 2012 as the agency Librarian/ Document controller.

As a dynamic, vibrant, hardworking and respectful youth leader, Sagir has an active interest in connecting, inspiring and mobilising youth across diversity and act together to address local and global change. Founder of the Jigawa Young Professionals Forum (JYPF).

He is a Certified Librarian of Nigeria (CLN) by Librarian Registration Council of Nigeria (LRCN) and Cyberoam Network Security Professional (CNSP). Sagir has also participated in International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), U.S. Department of State’s premier professional exchange program under the American Libraries Project 2014.

Currently, Sagir serves as a commissioner of Land, Housing, Urban Development and Regional Planning.