Beyond Boundaries: Life Story of Sulaiman Baffa

Title: Beyond Boundaries, Life Story of Sulaiman Baffa
Author: Udu Yakubu
Year of Publication: 2025
ISBN: 978-978-60822-2-6
Pages: 247, xiv

For Sulaiman Bafta, early life was marked by upheavals: his family’s banishment from their ancestral seat of power, his parents’ divorce, and the challenge of navigating a fractured childhood between multiple guardians. Born at a time when his ruling family had already been displaced, Baffa grew up knowing that the old certainties were gone. Through persistence and a refusal to compromise his principles, he built a career that took him from village teacher to the highest levels in Nigeria’s banking sector and government.

From surviving false accusations that nearly destroyed his reputation to speaking truth to military dictators about fiscal responsibility, Baffa’s story reveals the power of principled leadership in the face of adversity. Beyond Boundaries offers lessons in Baffa’s steady character, his commitment to honesty, and the quiet persistence that marked his rise through Nigeria’s private and public sectors. It offers a candid look into the life of a man driven by simple principles in a complex society.