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Alh. Bello Kagara was born on 22nd November 1960 in Kagara town in Kafur Local Government Area of Katsina State. He received his primary up to university education in reputable institutions in Nigeria, thereby fetching him employment with Local, State, and Federal Government agencies and parastatals.
He attended the College of Education, Kafanchan, for the N.C.E programme in English and Fine Arts. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he studied B.A Education (English) and obtained a Certificate of Monitoring of Learning Achievements (MLA) from, the University of Ibadan, and a Certificate of Improving Quality of Education System; Harvard Postgraduate School, Boston, USA.
He attended several international courses on Project and Educational Planning, Management, Procurement, Policy and Strategic Planning, Educational Planning and Administration, Institutional Strengthening, Financing and Modernizing Public Sector Organizations, Public Administration, Governance and Organizational Leadership, etc. These and many other local courses groomed Kagara for a peaked career in the civil service.
He is a seasoned administrator who traversed primary school administration as a headmaster, secondary school as a teacher; then Local Government as Councilor for Education and Health; and later Local Government Council Secretary in Malumfashi and Kafur Local Government Areas of Katsina State, respectively. He became Head of Planning, Research, and Statistics (PRS) at Katsina State Transport Authority (1992) and later joined the services of the defunct National Primary Education Commission (NPEC), now Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), as Principal Project Officer, World Bank Department in 1994. He was the Personal Assistant to the Interim Administrator, of NPEC, in 1996.
Bello, among other positions, rose through the ranks to become the Project Coordinator of the World Bank-Assisted Primary Education Project (PEP-II) in 2002; Coordinator of UBE Project I (2005); Head of Procurement (2008); Deputy Director/Coordinator, of Special Projects (2010); Head of the Executive Secretary‟s Office (2013); Director Planning Research and Statistics (2014); Director Administration and Supplies (2016) and later Director of Social Mobilization, UBEC. (2016-2020)
Kagara is also a political bigwig in his locality and held various prominent positions such as a Member of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC), Katsina State Chapter, and served as secretary to Kafur Local Government. He was a member of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC), Katsina State Chapter, and served as secretary to Kafur Local Government. He is currently the Chairman Kafur Local Government APC Stakeholder Committee. He served as a Secretary Planning, Research and Statistics Committee Dikko/Jobe Gubernatorial Council, Katsina State.
