Aminu Saleh


Aminu Saleh is a Nigerian administrator, former Finance Minister of Nigeria, and permanent secretary in the Nigerian ministry of Defense. He became the chairman of the National Qu'ranic Recitation Committee in 2006.
He is an indigene of Bauchi State and has served in various capacities at both the state and the federal level. He served Obasanjo's regime in the 1970s and Abacha's beginning in 1992.
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.
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 University of Lagos 1963-67, he had attended post graduate course in management in University of Wisconsin in the United States.

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He had presented many papers to a number of bodies such as
  1. 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.
  2. Presented a paper to annual conference of Nigerian Institute of Mechanical Engineers Kaduna on Energy Development.
  3. Presented a paper at the 50th Anniversary of Katagum Student Association
  4. 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, Azare. Due to a failed emergency surgery.