{"id":43096,"date":"2021-03-16T13:44:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T13:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/who-is-nyirarugero-the-newly-appointed-governor-of-northern-province\/"},"modified":"2021-03-20T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T08:58:11","slug":"who-is-nyirarugero-the-newly-appointed-governor-of-northern-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/who-is-nyirarugero-the-newly-appointed-governor-of-northern-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Nyirarugero, the newly appointed Governor of Northern Province"},"content":{"rendered":"

During an exclusive interview with IGIHE, Nyirarugero explained more about her life and how she welcomed the appointment. <\/p>\n

Nyirarugero is a mother of four who speaks with a warm heart mixing introducing Biblical verses in discussions. She is a Christian in the Anglican Church. <\/p>\n

Nyirarugero studied at Rungu Primary School located in Gacaca sector, Musanze district and later pursued secondary studies at Lyc\u00e9e Notre-Dame de C\u00eeteaux in Kigali. She later graduated in Economics at INES-Ruhengeri. <\/p>\n

Nyirarugero pursued Master\u2019s degree in Makerere, Uganda and later obtained Master\u2019s degree in quality education related courses from Germany in 2019. <\/p>\n

The mother aged 54 has revealed that she was surprised for the appointment as he had never dreamt of holding senior leadership positions. <\/p>\n

\u201cI surprised and delighted me to see the President of the Republic bestowing trust upon me and assigning me to the position,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Nyirarugero used to have feelings that she could become the rector of a university once she obtains a Doctorate (PhD) because she served in the education sector since 2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause I was passionate about education, I had a wish to obtain a PhD that I can be the rector of a particular university,\u201d noted Nyirarugero. <\/p>\n

As you speak to her, it won\u2019t take long to realize that Nyirarugero is always optimistic, self-less and courageous which helped her throughout her career in the education sector. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am keen on working and have a feeling to attain great things. This gives me courage to work hard and collaborate with others to achieve goals,\u201d she explained. <\/p>\n

Commenting on her new appointment, Nyirarugero thanked the President of the Republic and promised to work hard to deliver on promises. <\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, I voice my appreciation to President Paul Kagame for bestowing trust upon me assigning me the Governor of Northern Province. I will work hard to deliver to the best of my ability in collaboration with residents of this Province,\u201d said Nyirarugero. <\/p>\n

Since 2009, Nyirarugero has been working in the education sector. She started her career at INES-Ruhengeri and later worked at Muhabura Polytechnic where she was a lecturer and head of the department of Economics. <\/p>\n

She was born in Muhoza sector, Musanze district of Northern Province where she was raised. <\/p>\n

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{On 15th March 2021, President Paul Kagame made cabinet reshuffles whereby Nyirarugero Dancilla, emerged to be a new figure appointed the Governor of Northern Province replacing Gatabazi Jean Marie Vianney who headed to the Ministry of Local Government. }<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-43096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43096"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43096"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}