NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF NIGERIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

Biographical Note                                          

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF NIGERIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Aminu Bashir Wali, the new Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Before his current appointment, he 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.

Born in Kano, Nigeria, in 1941, Mr. Wali studied at the School of Arabic Studies in that city from 1960 to 1961; attended the Federal Training Centre in Lagos between 1961 and 1962, before proceeding to the North-Western Polytechnic (North London University) from 1963 to 1967, and then on to the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos, in Nigeria between February and October 1986.

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

The new Nigerian envoy is married.

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