Management

Zubaida is the Proprietor of Totsville School located in Badawa Layout, Kano and the Director of the Guidance and Counselling Centre at the Federal College of Education, Kano state. She is an exceptional educator who has taught at all levels of the educational system in Nigeria. Her rich career of over 42 years has seen her publish articles on Educational Psychology, Special Education and women’s issues in 13 reputable journals, and chapter contribution in 4 books and 2 standard text books. Her passion for community and humanitarian work was ignited in 1998, as a volunteer with Society for Women against AIDS in Africa, Nigeria (SWAAN). Since then, she has continued to work with Non-Governmental Organizations on a number of causes and issues. In 2003, she co-founded Hotoro Women Development Association (HOWDA) in Hotoro, Kano State and from 2008 – 2020, she was the Kano State Outreach Coordinator of BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights Nigeria, an organization where she now serves as Board Chair. She is now the Secretary of SWAAN’s Kano State branch and sits on the Board of Directors of the Adolescent Health and Information Project (AHIP) and Community Support and Development Initiative (CSADI), another NGO in Kano. Under her leadership, her NGO, HOWDA has attracted funding opportunities to implement several projects and interventions.