Alhaji Ahmed Joda Biography: Cause of Death, Age , NLNG, Profile and All You Should Know

Alhaji Ahmed Joda Biography: Cause of Death, Age, NLNG, Profile and All You Should Know

Ahmad Joda, an elder statesman who led President Muhammadu Buhari’s transition committee in 2015, has died.

Ahmed Joda OFR, CON, CFR was a Nigerian administrator who climbed through the Northern Regional Government’s administrative ranks and then into the federal civil service, eventually retiring as Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Industries. During the presidency of the young Yakubu Gowon, he was regarded as one of a group of outstanding Permanent Secretaries.

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Mr Joda, a journalist who later became a civil servant and served as one of Yakubu Gowon’s military government’s “super federal permanent secretaries,

He died on Friday afternoon at the age of 91.

Mr Joda died at the Federal Medical Centre in Yola, Adamawa State’s capital, according to family sources.

He attended Yola Elementary School and Yola Middle School in Adamawa State before attending Barewa College in Zaria from 1945 to 1948.

He worked briefly at Moor Plantation in Ibadan and then as an agricultural officer in Yola before joining Gaskiya Corporation in Zaria to pursue a career in journalism.

From 1954 to 1956, he attended Pitmans College in London. From 1956 to 1960, he worked as a correspondent for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service.

From 1962 to 1967, he worked for the Northern Regional Government as a Chief Information Officer and later as Permanent Secretary.

He was seconded to the Federal Civil Service as a Permanent Secretary in the federal ministries of Information, Education, and Industries in 1967, following the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War, where he retired in 1978.

During the Second Nigerian Republic, he retired to the private sector and served as chairman and board member of several companies, including the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Nigerian Communications Commission, Pastoral Resolve, SCOA, Nigeria, Chagoury Group, Flour Mills of Nigeria, and Nigerian LNG.

He was also a member of the 1988 Constituent Assembly, which planned the Third Nigerian Republic’s constitutional transition.

In 1999, he was named head of the Presidential Committee on Poverty Alleviation, and in 2015, he oversaw Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential transition.

Alhaji Ahmed Joda Biography, Profile / Wikipedia

Name	Ahmed Joda
Age	91
Died	August 13, 2021
Date of birth	13 February 1930
State of Origin	Adamawa State
Religion	Muslim
Profession	Journalist
Net Worth	Unavailable

Ahmed Joda Dies / Dead / Death

He died  13 August 2021

Ahmed Joda Age.

He Died at Aged 91

Ahmed Joda Honours 

1. In 1965, at the age of 35, he received the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic
2. In 1979, Commander of the Order of the Niger
3. In 2002, Commander of the Federal Republic.

Alhaji Ahmed Joda Biography 

Ahmed Joda was born in Yola in 1930 to a Fulani family; his great-great-grandfather was Modibbo Raji, a 19th-century Islamic scholar and Sheikh Usman Dan Fodio’s colleague.

Alhaji Ahmed Joda Education

From 1945 to 1948, Ahmed Joda attended Yola Elementary School and Yola Middle School before attending Barewa College. He worked briefly at Moor Plantation in Ibadan and then as an agricultural officer in Yola before joining Gaskiya Corporation in Zaria to pursue a career in journalism. From 1954 to 1956, he attended Pitmans College in London. From 1956 until 1960, he worked as a correspondent for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service.

Alhaji Ahmed Joda Career

From 1962 until 1967, he worked for the Northern Regional Government as a Chief Information Officer and then as Permanent Secretary. He was seconded to the Federal Civil Service in 1967, following the start of the Nigerian Civil War, as a Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministries of Information, Education, and Industries, where he resigned in 1978.

During the Second Nigerian Republic, he went into private business, serving as chairman and board member of businesses such as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Nigerian Communications Commission, Pastoral Resolve, SCOA, Nigeria, Chagoury Group, Flour Mills of Nigeria, and Nigerian LNG.

Ahmed Joda Profile/ Political Career

He was also a part of the 1988 Constituent Assembly, which designed the Third Nigerian Republic’s constitutional transition. He was nominated to the Committee to Advise the President on Poverty Alleviation in 1999, and he oversaw Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential transition in 2015.

Ahmed Joda Death 

After a brief illness, he died on August 13, 2021, in Yola, Nigeria.