President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Maryam Uwais, the wife of former Chief Justice of the Federation, Muhammadu Uwais, as his Special Adviser for Social Protection Plan.
The Abuja-based lawyer and activist has been deployed to the office of the Vice President, Yemi Osibajo, to coordinate the administration’s social protection schemes, including a N60billion micro-credit scheme for artisans and market women.
Uwais has over 30-year experience in legal practice. She was the principal partner at Wali Uwais & Co until her latest appointment.
She graduated with an LL.B from the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, in 1980 and was called to the bar in 1981, after attending the Nigerian Law School, Lagos.
In 1985, she bagged a Masters in Law from the same university.
Mrs Uwais worked at the Kano State Ministry of Justice between 1980 and 1987.
Between 1988 and 1989, she was at the Nigerian Law Reform Commission, before moving on to the Central Bank of Nigeria where she remained till 1998.
