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Top Ten Things You Did Not Know About Tajudeen Abbas
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Hon Tajudeen Abbas has emerged as the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 10th National Assembly.
Abbas from Zaria Federal Constituency, Kaduna State got a total of 353 votes from the majority members of the House on Tuesday.
He defeated Aminu Sani Jaji and Ahmed Idris Wase who had 3 votes
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Dr Abbas was born on October 1, 1963, in Kaduna State.
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He hails from the Zazzau Emirate and is a prince with the traditional title of the Iyan Zazzau.
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He holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Business Administration from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna, in 1988 and 1993 respectively.
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He furthered his education by completing a doctorate degree in business management at the Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto in 2010.
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He became a lecturer at the Kaduna State University (KASU) between 1993 to 2001.6. From 2001 to 2005, Abbas worked as a Marketing Manager at the Nigerian Tobacco Distribution Company, now the British-American Tobacco Company.
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Abbas left private and academia to join politics in 2010, where he contested for the House of Representatives seat in 2011 and won.
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He sponsored the highest number of bills in the 8th assembly between 2015 and 2019 and also sponsored record-breaking 74 bills out of which 21 were signed into law between 2019 to 2023.
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He had served in more than seven committees in the House since 2015 including Commerce, Finance, Special Duties, Defence, Public Procurement, and National Planning and Economic Development Committee.
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Until his emergence as the Speaker, Abbas was the House Committee Chairman for Land Transport.