Bala Mande
Kanal Bala Mohammed Mande tsohon Shugaban Gwamnatin Soja ne a Jihar Nasarawa. Daga baya aka nada shi Ministan Muhalli a majalisar ministocin tsohon Shugaban kasa Olusegun Obasanjo.

Farkon aiki 
Bala Mande ya fito ne daga jihar Zamfara. An naɗa shi mai kula da harkokin soja na jihar Nasarawa daga watan Yunin shekara ta 1998 zuwa watan Mayu shekarar 1999 a lokacin mulkin rikon kwarya na Janar Abdulsalami Abubakar, yana mikawa zababben Gwamna Abdullahi Adamu kan komawar dimokuradiyya.  Ya kasance mai kaifin sukar lamiri ga gwamna Ahmad Rufa'i Sani saboda aiwatar da Shari'ar Musulunci a tsakanin shekarun 2000-2003, wanda yake jin ana amfani da shi wajen ladabtar da abokan adawar siyasa, tare da barnatar da aka samu ga magoya bayan Sani na jam'iyyar ANPP.   Ya kuma kasance dan takarar Jam’iyyar Democratic Party na gwamnan jihar Zamfara a shekarar 2003, amma ya kayar da Ahmad Sani mai ci a jam’iyyar All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP).

Ministan Muhalli 
An nada Mande a matsayin Ministan Muhalli a majalisar Shugaba Olusegun Obasanjo a watan Yunin shekarar 2003, yana mai rike da mukamin har zuwa Yunin shekarar 2005.  A cikin watan Satumba shekarar 2003, ya sanya hannu kan yarjejeniya tare da kasar Kamaru 's ministan muhallin daji Chief Tanyi-Mbianyor Clarkson ga transboundary kare yankin hada Takamanda da Okwangwo reserves kare Cross River gorilla, duniya ta rarest subspecies na gorilla da kawai 280 mutane a ko'ina cikin kewayonsa. 

A watan Oktoba na shekarar 2003, ya gabatar da taron kasa kan muhalli a matsayin hanya daya tilo da za ta magance matsalar lalacewar muhalli da ke tattare da rashin kulawa ta tsawon shekaru.  A wannan watan kuma, ya ce za a sake inganta Hukumar Kula da Kogin Chadi domin tunkarar matsalolin muhalli na wannan yankin. Gwamnatin Tarayya za ta dawo da yankin Tafkin Chadi kamar yadda yake a da idan ta ba da ruwa don ayyukan noma, tare da tallafawa yawon bude ido. Ya ce ma'aikatarsa za ta samar da duk wasu kwararru da hukumar za ta iya bukatar aiwatar da ayyukan hukumar. Ya sanar da amincewar Bankin Duniya na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya kan Muhalli (GEF) na dala 10 miliyan raya kasa. 

A lokacin bazara shekarar 2003, Mande ta ce gidauniyar British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation ta hada hannu da Ma'aikatar "a kokarin neman ci gaba mai dorewa da kiyaye albarkatun gandun dajinmu". Gidauniyar ta kuduri aniyar samar da tsirrai 100,000 a duk shekara a wani aikin dasa bishiyoyi na kasa, da kuma samar da kayan aiki da tallafi na fasaha don tabbatar da kyawawan halaye a cikin kiyaye muhalli.

Daga baya aiki 
Mande ya kasa tabbatar da tsayar da dan takarar gwamna na PDP a Zamfara a zaben shekarar 2007, amma an nada shi daya daga cikin masu kula da yakin neman zaben tikitin Umaru 'Yar'Adua / Goodluck Jonathan.  A watan Fabrairun shekarar 2010, a matsayin Sakatare na Kungiyar Tarayyar Arewa (NU), Mande ta bayyana cewa kungiyar ba ta taba ba shugaban kasa mai jiran gado Umaru Yar'Adua shawarar ya jingina kan mulki ba, ko da a kan kujera.

Manazarta 

Rayayyun Mutane
Haifaffun 1958