Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, is a

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and

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. She was the director-general of

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, NAPTIP from 1 December 2020 till 27 May 2021, when the Nigerian President,

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announced a swap and she was redeployed as the Honourable Federal Commissioner of the

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Early life and education

Sulaiman-Ibrahim was raised in

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, Nigeria. She attended Aruwa Nursery School, Abuja and Jabi Primary School, (now, LEA Primary School, Jabi), for her nursery and primary school education before preceding to Federal Government Girls College, Bwari, Abuja for her secondary education. At the age of 19, she graduated from

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with a degree in sociology. At the age of 21, she received two master's degrees from

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, an MBA and MA. She did her mandatory

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, Kaduna zonal office.

Career

Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim started her career working at Abuja Geographic Information Systems, AGIS, before moving to the

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where she worked in human resource,Business and Management before becoming a certified AP HCM consultant. Sulaiman-Ibrahim joined

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and later became a senior sales director. She was a special adviser on strategic communication to the minister of state for education,

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and she was appointed a member of the Nasarawa State economic advisory council by the Executive Governor of Nassarawa State Engr. A. A. Sule in September 2019. She was recently the Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in persons for the duration of 6 months from December 2020 to May 2021. Currently, she is the Honourable Federal Commissioner of the National Commission For Refugees Migrants And Internally Displaced Persons Office as of June 4, 2021.

Director-General of NAPTIP

On 1 December 2020, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim was appointed by the president of Nigeria,

as the director-general of

, NAPTIP for a four-year tenure to replace

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. She served as the Director-General of NAPTIP for the duration of 6 months from December 2020 to May 20211, following the directives of President Muhammadu Buhari to move to the National Commission For Refugees Migrants And Internally Displaced Persons Office as the Honourable Federal Commissioner.

Personal life

Sulaiman-Ibrahim was born in

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, Nigeria. She is from

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, Nigeria. Her father was S.K Danladi, an Abuja-based engineer and developer. Her mother is Aishatu Sulaiman Danladi, a teacher. She is the second child in a family of eight children. Sulaiman-Ibrahim is married and has three children.

References

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