Yakubu Dogara CFR[1] (born 26 December 1967) is a Nigerian politician and lawyer who served as the 13th Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019.

[5] Dogara also attended a course on Managing and Leading Strategic Change in 2006, the Oxford University Course on Negotiation in 2013, and a course on Leadership in Crisis at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2014.

During this period, he was also a member of the House committees on Judiciary, Capital Markets and Institutions, Foreign Affairs, Rural Development and Power, among others.

During the Seventh Assembly (2011-2015), he served as chairman of the committee on House Services and Welfare, and as a member of others including Judiciary, Land Transport, Labour, Employment and Productivity, Steel Development, and Legislative Budget and Research.

[23][24] Dogara has, on many occasions, spoken about the need to update Nigeria's laws in order to attract investments and provide jobs for the nation's millions of unemployed people.

As a result of the work of the stated committee, the House of Representatives set a record in December 2015 when 130 bills passed first reading in one sitting.

Dogara has also visited Internally Displaced Persons (IDP's) in camps across Nigeria, in Edo, Abuja, Adamawa and other states, and donated relief materials.

[30][31][32] Dogara is an active supporter of the Not Too Young To Run campaign, which aims to secure representation for Nigeria's youth in the political process by lowering the age of eligibility for elective offices.

[42][43] Also, in response to the hardship experienced by many Nigerians, Dogara inaugurated an ad-hoc tactical committee in February 2017, which was charged with the mandate of monitoring policies enacted by the Executive, which are geared at ending the recession.

[45][46] Dogara has called for the completion of dredging of inland water ways to open up the country and explore the potentials of agricultural and mining sectors.

[citation needed] He also serves as the secretary of the board of trustees and legal adviser to FAcE-PAM, an NGO operating in Bauchi State.

[51] In March 2016, he was honoured by the Royal Commonwealth Society of Nigeria for passing 130 bills in one day,[52] and on 10 June 2016, he was presented with the Zik Prize in Leadership Award for Public Service.

[54][55] In October 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari conferred on Dogara Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR), a Nigerian national honour.