Aminu Saleh (6 November 1933 – 22 July 2015) was a

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administrator, former

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, former

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, and

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in the Nigerian ministry of Defense. He became the chairman of the National Qu'ranic Recitation Committee in 2006."Bauchi govt plans to train 20 on art of writing Qu’ran"
, ''The Tide'' (Port Harcourt), August 19, 2006 He is an indigene of

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and has served in various capacities at both the state and the federal level. He served

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's regime in the 1970s and Abacha's beginning in 1993. Saleh is also the owner of a Nigerian beverage known as "Brahma and Tandi Guarana" and a shareholder in various Nigeria-based industries. He led the creation, establishment, funding and running of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF). He was a member of Vision 2010. Born in 1933 in Azare, Katagum LGA, Bauchi State, Sale attended elementary school in Azare 1941-44, Bauchi middle school 1944-49, attended clerical training college Zaria, 1950-51 attended institute of administration Zaria for diploma in accounting 1956-57. He was on an evening university degree course in

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1963-67, he had attended post graduate course in management in

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in the United States.

Working experience

* He joined the Katagum Native Authority in 1949, and became Katagum Native Authority Treasurer in 1957, thereafter transferred to the Federal Government in 1962. He was under Dr. Pius Okigbo, the then Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister. * His pupilage in budget and national planning techniques under Dr. Edwin Ogbu, the Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Finance who later became Nigeria’s permanent representative to the

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. * The rigorous drills he regularly had in financial discipline and management in the hands of Abdul Aziz Atta the Permanent Secretary Fed. Min. of Finance and later SGF. * The induction he went through in contract negotiations, preparation and its administrative supervision under Engr. S.O. Williams Perm. Sec. Min. of Communication who later became the federal minister of Communication.

Appointments held

* Secretary to the Government of the Federation * Head of Federal Civil Service. * Federal Minister of Industries * Federal Minister of Finance * Federal Minister of Defence * Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Communication. * Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Trade. * Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defence. * Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance. * Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Communication. * Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture.

Membership of Federal boards

* Member, Board of Governors,

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(UCH) Ibadan from 1963 - 1965. * Member, Board of Governors,

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, (LUTH) from 1966 - 1967. * Member, Provisional Council,

, from 1969 - 1970.

Appointments at Bauchi State level

He was appointed as * Chairman, Elders Advisory Committee. * Chairman, Committee on the Creation of Katagum State. * Chairman, Committee on Kafin Zaki Dam, by the Bauchi State Government. * Chairman, Bauchi State Constitution Review Committee. * Member of National Honours and Merit Award Committee.

Awards

He was awarded * Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR). *

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(GCON). * Doctorate degree (LLD), ATBU Bauchi. * Grand Commander of the Nigerian Students by NANS. * Prestigious Merit Award by NUBASS.

Paper presented

He had presented many papers to a number of bodies such as # Paper presented to an induction course of Fed. Perm. Sec. and Directors General under the chairmanship of Prof. A A Adedeje, a paper on Budgeting the Nigerian Experience. # Presented a paper to annual conference of Nigerian Institute of Mechanical Engineers Kaduna on Energy Development. # Presented a paper at the 50th Anniversary of Katagum Student Association (KSA) # Presented a paper at the 2008 Annual Dinner of Nigerian Society of Engineers Bauchi.

Death

He died on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at the Federal Medical Centre,

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. Due to a failed emergency surgery.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saleh, Aminu 2015 deaths Finance ministers of Nigeria University of Lagos alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni 1933 births