Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim
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April 19, 1980
Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim | |
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.jpg) Sulaiman-Ibrahim in 2024 | |
| Honorable Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons. | |
| In office 21 August 2023 – To Date | |
| President | Bola Ahmed Tinubu |
| Minister | State Minister of Police Affairs (2023 - present), becoming the first female Minister of Police Affairs under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's administration |
| Preceded by | Mohammed Maigari Dingyadi |
| Special Adviser, Strategic Communication and Partnerships to the Minister of State for Education. Aug 2019 - Dec 2020 | |
| Director General, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons. Dec 2020 - May 2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim April 19, 1980 Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria |
| Alma mater | Webster University, St. Louis Missouri (London Campus). |
Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim is a Nigerian politician and businesswoman. She was the director-general of National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP from 1 December 2020 till 27 May 2021, when the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari announced a swap and she was redeployed as the Honourable Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons.[1]
Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim was raised in Abuja, 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 University of Abuja with a degree in sociology. At the age of 21, she received two master's degrees from Webster University, an MBA and MA. She did her mandatory National Youth Service Corps at NNPC, Kaduna zonal office.[2][3]
Career
Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim started her career working at Abuja Geographic Information Systems, AGIS, before moving to the United Kingdom where she worked in human resource, Business and Management before becoming a certified [SAP] HCM consultant. Sulaiman-Ibrahim joined Mary Kay and later became a senior sales director. She was a special adviser on strategic communication to the minister of state for education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba 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.[2][3][4]
She was appointed as State Minister Of Police affairs in July 2023.[5] She is the first female Minister of Police Affairs appointed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.[6]