Alhaji aminu wali biography

Aminu Bashir Wali (born August 3, 1941) was Nigeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2015.
Born on August 3, 1941 in Kano, Ambassador Wali attended the Provincial Secondary School and the School of Arabic Studies in Kano between 1955 and 1961.
Ambassador Aminu Bashir Wali, 83, has left footprints in business, politics and diplomacy.

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Alhaji Abdulkadir Aminu was appointed as Group Executive Director, Corporate Services NIPCO Plc, after the completion of acquisition of majority shareholding in Mobil Oil Nigeria Plc. He is also a Non-Executive Director ,11Plc and a Director NIPCO Gas Ltd. wholly owned subsidiary of NIPCO Plc making remarkable contributions to harnessing the nation’s gas resources.

He was formerly the Executive Director, Corporate Services NIPCO and the National President of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria [IPMAN].

The astute Oil and Gas Marketer is presently the Chairman Board of Trustees (BOT) of IPMAN, the highest policy making organ in the Association

Alhaji Abdulkadir Aminu, a Civil Engineer of high reputes and was one time Chief Engineer of Adamawa State.

Before his recent appointment, he had chaired the Adamawa State Task Force on petroleum products distribution through which he ensured product availability and stoppage of sharp practices at filling stations across the state.

He had served on the boards of several regulatory agencies in the petro

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Biographical Note

AMINU BASHIR WALI OF NIGERIA SECOND COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN

Aminu Bashir Wali, elected Chairman of the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) on 13 June, has served as Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations since June 2004.

Prior to his appointment as Permanent Representative, Mr. Wali served as Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly matters from 1999 to 2003. He was a founding member, a member of the board of trustees and the deputy national chairman of the Democratic Party of Nigeria in 1998.

Mr. Wali’s extensive work experience from 1975 to date covers the business world and the Nigerian Federal Government. He served as chairman of numerous companies, among them Philip Morris Nigeria Ltd., International Tobacco Co. Ltd., International Bank for West Africa Ltd., and Nigerian Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd. During the same period, he also served as a director of Barclays Bank of Nigeria Ltd., Nigeria Hotels Ltd., and Nigerbras Shipping Line, among others.

Mr. Wali was educated at the School of

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THE work of an ambassador is not for the averagely intelligent. It is for eggheads. Three months to the appointment of Aminu Wali as Nigeria’s 28th Foreign Affairs Minister, I was in company of some politicians. Not being a politician, I was supposed to be quiet, seen not heard. The discussion was who will come from Kano to the Federal Executive council, Gali Na Abba, Wali or the former Governor of Kano. It was also said that Wali could become, if accepted, as Minister of Defence. I was surprised when “Oga” said Steve you are close to this Northerner, what do you think?

I first met Aminu Wali in 1992 at his house in Victoria Island. It was the good old days of NPN. I still remember my first impression of him: small, audacious, calm, dark, probing, humble, complex and knowing. He could discuss anything; engineering, construction, military, civil service and of course, his calling, politics. He spoke of Chief Melford Okilo, Ranami Abba, Ferdinard Alabraba. (He even sent me to meet with Ferdinard Alabraba of the Commission then known as 3%).

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