Musa Daggash

Musa Daggash, OFR (born Musa Jibrin Muhammad Al-amin) was a Nigerian civil servant, who served as Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Mines and Power, then the Ministry of Defence and finally the Ministry of Transport. Daggash was part of the cohort of civil servants referred to as Super Permanent Secretaries. From 15 January 1966 to 3 June 1967, Nigeria had no Ministers, that was a period of over fifteen months. The two military regimes of Major General Aguiyi Ironsi and General Yakubu Gowon made permanent secretaries members of their Federal Executive Councils. These individuals were later referred to as "Super Permanent Secretaries".

Daggash was part of the first group of Northerners who were transferred to the Federal Public Service during the so-called Nigerianisation policy pursued by the Federal Government in the 1950s. He retired from the civil service on 26 March 1969. Daggash was appointed as the chairman of the Corporations Standing Tenders Board in the same year by Gen. Yakubu Gowon. Daggash was appointed as the first Nigerian to chair the Board of Barclays Bank (now Union Bank of Nigeria), from 1973 to 1976. He became the first General Manager of the Chad Basin Development Authority in 1973. He also served as Chairman of the Borno State Local Government Service Commission, Public Complaints Commission and Borno State Civil Service Commission.

In 1950 Musa was nominated to attend a course at the imperial Forestry Institute (now the Department of Plant Sciences) University of Oxford. On 2 March 1950 Musa was interviewed by the Departmental Selection Board, and upon the Board's strong recommendation a more Central Board screened him again. Musa's admission to this prestigious institution of learning was approved by the end of July 1950. Daggash arrived in the United Kingdom on 14 September 1950, in good time to attend the Colonial Office Summer School, Pembroke College in the University of Cambridge from 18 to 28 September. Daggash completed his studies at oxford and returned to work in November 1951.

Later, in 1960 Daggash decided to pursue a diploma in Public Administration from the University of Manchester, in order to equip himself for a career in Administration. He enrolled in the Department of Overseas Administration at The University of Manchester which was just established in 1960, to run short courses in public administration to civil servants from newly independent former colonies.