UMAR, Alh Abubakar

pany, 1970-74; Director, NNDC and Northern Nigerian Marketing Board, 1974-75; appointed Secretary to the Military Government and Head of Service, defunct North-Eastern State, and also Chairman, Gombe Agricultural Development Project, 1975-76; Secretary, to the Military Government and Head of Service. Bauchi State and also Director, NNDC, 1976-78; member, 11-man working Committee to establish National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, 1976-78; Secretary and Director of Finance and Administration, NIPSS, Kuru, 1979-81; Director, Steyr (Nigeria) Limited, Bauchi, 1981-83; Chairman, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), 1983-84; Director, National Trucks Manufacturers (Nigeria) Limited, Kano, 1985-86; Chairman, Financial Instruction Review Commission Committee, Bauchi State, 1985; appointed Minister of Works and Housing, 1986. redeployed as Minister of Employment, Labour and Productivity, since 1987; Tradi tional Title: Wali of Bauchi; National Honour: conferred with Officer' of the Order of the Niger (OON); Hobbies: reading, farming, cat tle rearing, reading (religious, and security books), international affairs; Official Address: Federal Ministry of Employment, Labour and Productivity, Federal Secretariat, Phase I, 7th Floor, Room 777, Ikoyi — Lagos; Telephone: (01) 686370, 683957; Home: 23, Temple Road, Ikoyi, Lagos State; Telephone: (01) 611523, 682208.