Mohammad Habibu Tijani is a

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ian politician and former member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Yendi Constituency in the Northern Region on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.

Early life and education

Tijani was born on 16 February 1965. He hails from Yendi in the Northern Region of

. He went to Ghana College, now Ghana Senior High School(GHANASCO), Tamale. He received his Teachers' Certificate 'A' in 1989 from the Bagabaga Training College. He later proceeded to the

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where he obtained his

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(BA) degree in the Study of Religion with first class honours in 2000. He holds a master's degree in Governance and Leadership from the

Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) is a public co-educational university spread over four campuses (Accra, Tema, Kumasi and Takoradi) and made up of six schools, ten research centers located at Greenhill in Accra ...

(GIMPA) and a post graduate diploma in education which he received in 2016 from

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, Oyibi.

Career

Tijani is a

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by profession. He was a tutor for

Yendi Senior High School Yendi Senior High School (YESS) is coeducational secondary school at Yendi in the Northern Region of Ghana. The school was established in 1970, first as middle boarding school to enable access to basic education for communities in the Eastern Corri ...

1995 to 1997. and also served as the assistant director in charge of Monitoring and Supervision for Central Gonja District Office of the

Ghana Education Service The Ghana Education Service (GES) is a government agency under the Ministry of Education responsible for implementing government policies that ensure that Ghanaians of school-going age irrespective of their ethnicity, gender, disability, religiou ...

from 2009 to 2013. He is also an Islamic Cleric. Habib Tijani was the Municipal Chief Executive for Yendi from 2001 to 2009.

Politics

Tijani served as the municipal chief executive for

Yendi Yendi is a town and the capital of Yendi Municipal district in the Northern Region of Ghana. As of 2012 the population of Yendi was 52,008 people. It is the seat of the King of the Dagombas. Climate Economy The people of Yendi are mainl ...

from 2001 to 2009. He entered parliament on 7 January 2013 on the ticket of the

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. He was re-elected in the

2016 Ghanaian general election General elections were held in Ghana on 7 December 2016 to elect a President and Members of Parliament. They had originally been scheduled for 7 November 2016, but the date was later rejected by Parliament. Former foreign minister Nana Akufo-Ad ...

to represent the Yendi Constituency for a second parliamentary term. In 2017, he was appointed deputy minister for Foreign Affairs. During his time in parliament, he served as member of the Works and Housing and Business and House Committees of Parliament. He has helped his constituents in many ways, including facilitating the following projects: * Setting up of the Yendi College of Health Sciences in Yendi * Building of Maternal and Child Health Care Centres in Yendi * Construction of 37 units of 3 Classroom Blocks in Yendi * Construction of 13 units of 6 Classroom Blocks in the Yendi Municipality * Construction of 13 CHPS Compounds in the Yendi Municipality

Personal life

He is married with four children. He identifies as a Muslim.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tijani, Mohammad Habibu Ghanaian MPs 2017–2021 1965 births Living people Ghanaian Muslims New Patriotic Party politicians