Professor Tahir Mamman, the Vice-Chancellor of Baze University, is among the individuals whose names were included in the recent ministerial nominees’ list released by President Bola Tinubu recently.
Baze University was established by Datti Baba-Ahmed, who was the vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election.
Born in 1954, Mamman served as the director-general of the Nigerian Law School for eight years (2005–2013) in Michika, Adamawa State.
He obtained his LL.B degree from Ahmadu Bello University in 1983 and was called to the bar in 1984. In 1987, Mamman earned his master’s degree from the University of Warwick, England, and later completed his PhD from the same university in Warwickshire, England, in 1990.
Mamman is also a member of the governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
In 2010, he became a board member of the International Association of Law Schools based in Washington DC. In September 2015, he was conferred with the title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). In recognition of his contributions, the Federal Government of Nigeria honored him with the national award of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON).
Mamman ventured into party politics in 2014 after completing his tenure as DG of the Nigeria Law School. He contested in the Adamawa State governorship election on the platform of the APC in December 2014 along with three other aspirants.
In June 2020, the APC national executive committee appointed and inaugurated him as a member representing the northeast geopolitical zone and acting national vice chairman, northeast, in the national caretaker/extraordinary convention planning committee
