Dame Pauline Tallen celebrates

• Published date: 13 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

Among the women serving under President Muhammadu Buhari's administration as a minister, Her Excellency, Dame Pauline Kedem Tallen remains one of the most experienced politically with a robust political background and a wide political antecedent. The Plateau State-born University of Jos graduate of Sociology is not a rookie politically, she has been playing politics as a time-tested grassroots person and a women's advocate in political inclusiveness. She is not only a politician but she is a mother figure whose humane side is second to none. Dame Pauline served as Commissioner in the Ministry of Social Development, Youth, Sports and Culture, and Commissioner in the Ministry of Health in Plateau State. As she demonstrated a clear and impactful vision her relevance increased in the national political space which landed her first job nationally as the Honourable Minister of State, Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, the Federal Republic of Nigeria from 1999 to 2003, and in 2005, she served as Chairman Governing Board, Raw Materials Research and Development (RMRDC).

While as a minister, she continued to build political friendships and affiliations where she was in 2005 decorated with the award of National Honors of the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR), by His Excellency, President Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR as an official national recognition of her invaluable contribution to national development. This also ushered her to become the Deputy Governor of Plateau state from 2007 to 2011, after which she became the National Adviser of The National Campaign Women Council...