Rukayat Shittu

Rukayat Motunrayo Shittu (born 6 June 1996) is a Nigerian journalist and politician representing the Owode/Onire constituency, Asa local government area in the Kwara State House of Assembly.

Early life and education Rukayat Shittu was born on 6 June 1996 in Manyan, Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State. She attended Baptist Primary School LGEA between 1998 and 2004 in Ilorin and Government Girls Day Secondary School, Oko Erin where she obtained her Senior Secondary School Certificate in 2011. She attended Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies where she obtained a diploma certificate in Mass communication and Islamic studies in 2015.

Career Shittu was the first female senate president at the Congress of NOUN Students (CONS), the official student association at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). In 2022, Shittu picked the interest form for the Kwara state House of Assembly under the All Progressives Congress

Professional Development and Training Participation

Rukayat has actively engaged in various seminars and workshops. In 2020, she participated in the International Media Training Center Workshop and completed a course on Introduction to Journalism. In 2021, she took part in the Trainirelations Emerging Women in Politics, IT Africa Training and the Youth Motion Fellowship. Her professional development continued in 2022 with her attendance at the Cyber Naija with Hashim Project and the Progressive Women Academy.