Buhari I + IIMinister of Education· November 2015 — May 2023
Malam Adamu Adamu
Education Minister through five ASUU strikes totalling 21 months of closure.
The record
Adamu Adamu, journalist and former Daily Trust columnist from Bauchi State, was Minister of Education for the full eight years of the Buhari administration.
His tenure included five ASUU strikes (2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022) totalling roughly 21 months of public university closure. The 2022 strike — at eight months — was the longest in Nigerian history.
Sources
- Academic Staff Union of Universities — Strike record archive
- Federal Ministry of Education — Annual Reports, 2016–2022
Methodology
Tier 1 · primary
Courts. Gazettes. National archives.
Tier 2 · corroborating
OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.
Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged
Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.