If the age-long and well known idioms that “wellbeing is abundance or information is power” seems OK or significance to us all, then the name, Maymunat Abdulhameed Abubakar ought to be of incredibly interest to us all.
An extraordinary lady by each norm of the word, her significance opposes orientation coordinated effort or constraint as scarcely can any human being be it a man or a lady can arrive at this world and experience their live without being moved by how she and her partners in her calling treat humanity.
Hajiya Maymunat A Abubakar is academically and professionally qualified medical and nursing expert. Born in 1968 at ABU Teaching Hospital Kaduna to the family of late Alhaji Abdulhameed Abubakar and Hajiya Fatima Jabir both indigenes of Bauchi State from Bursali Town in Zaki Local Government Area, she has virtually seen and done all that need to be seen and done about her profession more than two decades ago.
With solid foundation of both Quranic and Western education, she started her journey from Misbahu Islamiyya School Unguwan Rimi Kaduna where she finished the 60 verses of the holy quran in 1980. She went to LEA Primary School Kabala Costain Kaduna from 1972-1977, Hajiya Maymunat A. Abubakar moved to GDSS Tafawa Balewa Way Kaduna for her Secondary School education where she graduated with flying colours in 1982.
She gained admission into School of Nursing Bauchi that same year where she graduated as a Registered Nurse between 1982-1986.
To boost her health career, Nurse Maymunat enroll into the Nigerian Air force (NAF) BMTC 10 as a Military Nurse in 1988, after her basic military training from 1988-1989 she proceeded to
School of Midwifery Bauchi between 1991-1992. To solidify her nursing career she was in Post Basic Perioperative School UCH Ibadan Oyo State from 2002-2003.
Her thirst for knowledge took Nurse Maymunat A Abubakar to National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) Bauchi Study Centre from 2006-2012 for her BNSC.
From 2009-2010 she was at IPAES University of Benin. She was at Institute Supereieur Billingue Libre in Togo from 2017-2019 for Masters in Public Health and in West African Postgraduate College of Nursing and Midwifery (WAPCNM) between 2016-2020. She also went to ATBU Bauchi and pursue a PGDE from 2018-2019.
Nurse Maymunat A Abubakar hungry for higher knowledge also made her gain admission into the famous Maryam Abacha American University in Niger Republic from 2022 to date for her PhD in Nursing Science.
Besides these academic laurels, she also attended several professional and academic courses within and outside the country, these include but a few: FIMA Delegate Conference South Africa in 2018, WAPCN Scientific Conference in Ghana in 2015, WAPCNM Scientific Conference in 2021 at Benin Republic NAPON Conference in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 till 2022.
The journey of what transformed Nurse Maymunat A Abubakar into a woman of high reputation began in 1986 when she was employed into the Service and deployed to Specialist Hospital Bauchi in 1987 before being transferred to General Hospital Shira/Yana Bauchi.
She was enlisted into the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) as a military nurse and was posted to HQ NAF Medical Centre Onikan Lagos in1989. She was at 303 NAF
Medical Centre Kano from 1993-1996. When she voluntarily discharge from NAF, she got employed in FMC Keffi Nassarawa State from 2001-2002, she moved to RMAFC Staff Clinic Abuja from 2004-2007 and NASCON PLC Staff Clinic Oregun-
Lagos from 2007-2008. She was back at the Specialist Hospital Bauchi from 2008- 2010 and now ATBU Teaching Hospital Bauchi since 2010 to date.
Nurse Maymunat A Abubakar immense contribution in the development of Nursing Profession have not gone unnoticed, as she won several honors and
awards. She is the first female Nurse in Bauchi to become the HOD Nursing Service in 2019, and in 2020 she became a Board MEMBER OF THE Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) and in 2021 she became the first female Nurse to become a fellow of West African Postgraduate College of Nursing and Midwifery. Presently she is also the first Nurse to become the National Chairman of National Association of Perioperative Nurses of Nigeria (NAPON).
She is also a comrade in the Nursing field and belong to a lot of organization which include but a few: NANNM, NAPON, Fellow WAPCNM, IMCON, IMAN and also an ASCONIAN.
She was an Registered Nurse, Registered Midwife, Nursing Officer I, Senior Nursing Officer, Assistant Chief Nursing Officer, Chief Nursing Officer, Assistant Director Nursing Service and now Deputy Director Nursing Service.
Nurse Maymunat A Abubakar’s activities transient the Nursing sphere, as her outstanding contributions to the development of her community made her Village Head to crown her as the first Kilishin Bursali of Bursali Village by his Excellency the Village Head Alhaji Hassan Jabir on the 6 th /04/ 2013.
She is a widow blessed with a daughter, Maymunat Hanan Alanjo. Her hobbies include Reading, Cooking and Travelling.