 Buba was born in Jakusko Yobe State on 6 August 1992 and grew up in Potiskum, Yobe state.He is an alumnus of the University of Maiduguri, Borno state where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in Political Science in 2015 and holds a master's degree in Africa and International Development from the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom in 2018.Buba had a traumatic experience with Boko haram in June 2010 while he was travelling to the University of Maiduguri as an undergraduate when his bus was stopped by the terrorists and passengers were kidnapped, he survived and also had friends and family who were killed by the Boko haram insurgency.