Bello Bala Shagari
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26 April 1988
Gidado Idris (Maternal grandfather)
Bello Bala Shagari | |
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 Bello Shagari portrait | |
| President of the National Youth Council of Nigeria | |
| In office 24 July 2018 – 9 March 2020 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Muhammad Bello Bala Shagari 26 April 1988 |
| Parent | Muhammad Bala Shagari |
| Relatives | Shehu Shagari (Paternal grandfather) Gidado Idris (Maternal grandfather) |
| Education | Middlesex University, London. |
| Nickname | Belshagy |
| Website | belloshagari |
Bello Shagari ⓘ (born 26 April 1988) is a youth activist and a documentary filmmaker. He is board member and Vice Chair of the Non-Aligned Movement Youth Organization (NAMYO) representing Africa.[1] Prior to that, he led the National Youth Council of Nigeria and The Royal African Young Leadership Forum.[2]
Bello is a notable grandson of Nigeria's former president Alhaji Shehu Shagari who is involved in Youth Activism. He announced his grandfather's death on 28 December 2018.[3] His father is the president's eldest son, Mallam Muhammad Bala Shagari of Shagari, Sokoto State. He had his early education in Sokoto and later had his SSCE in Police Secondary School Minna, Niger State. In secondary school, he served as the Cadet Commander in the School's Cadet Club. He is a graduate of Business Information Systems & Information Technology from Middlesex University London. Shortly after his graduation in 2012, he voluntary taught briefly as a teacher in a Primary and Secondary Schools at his hometown Shagari.[4] He holds the chieftaincy title of the Yarima of Shagari.
Career
Bello Shagari founded Barcode Multimedia in 2012. He has produced documentaries and contents on politics, history and advocacy. One of such documentaries "One Nation, One Destiny" project which began in 2013, a documentary of the history of Nigeria focusing on President Shehu Shagari's long experiences since pre-independence to his eventual emergence as Nigeria's first executive president in 1979.
Accordingly, in the course of research and interviews, Bello has come across a number of prominent politicians, diplomats, historians and many leaders. Some of his encounters include the past and present Nigeria Heads of State such as Yakubu Gowon, Olusegun Obasanjo, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, Abdulsalami Abubakar and Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.[5]
He also interviewed high-profile personalities such as Prof. Jean Herskovits, historian of the State University of New York, U.S. ambassador and diplomat Thomas Pickering, and Clifford May, a former New York Times reporter and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, among others.[6]
As a youth activist, Bello was appointed as the chairman of the National Youth Council of Nigeria Sokoto State Chapter in 2017 after protesting and replacing a 52-year-old man who was wrongly occupying the position.[7][8] His activism became stronger and he ran for the presidency of the National Youth Council of Nigeria in the 2018 Unity Congress held in Gombe which he won in a keenly contested election which has brought him to National prominence in 2018.[9] As the Chairman of NYCN Sokoto State Chapter, he partnered with other Government and Non Governmental Organisations to initiate a program known as RRTE in Sokoto State to curb unemployment, drug abuse and community violence.[10]
He is now involved in party politics and aspired for the chairmanship of the Abuja Municipal Area Council elections AMAC, under the All Progressives Congress in 2021.[11]