Career & Expertise

Zainab Ibrahim Kuchi is a politician and lawyer with over 35 years of legal and management experience.

She started in 1981, where she worked with Niger State judiciary headquarters. After her NYSC, she was retained at the Ministry of Justice, Minna, and she served there for about eight and a half years. Zainab worked at the Central Bank of Nigeria from May 1989 till December 2004, when she retired to start her own legal consulting firm.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan appointed her Nigeria’s Minister of State for Power in July 2011. In November 2011, she announced the signing of an agreement with the Sinohydro Corporation. The Chinese state-owned company was to build a 3,050-megawatt hydropower plant in Mambila Plateau in Taraba state.

But on October 30, 2012, after a Federal Executive Council meeting, former President Jonathan directed she swapped her role with the former Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs, Darius Ishaku. In 2014, she was appointed as Goodluck Jonathan’s Presidential Campaign coordinator for Niger state.

Skills Utilisation

She has good project and people management skills.