Adamu Ciroma

Provincial Electoral Officer and Divisional Officer, Sardauna Province from 1964 to 1965 and Senior Assistant Secretary, Federal Ministry of Mines and Power, Lagos. Adamu Ciroma's eminence was amplified by his appointment as the first indigenous Editor for the Northern Newspaper, THE NEW NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER and his subsequent appointment as the paper's Managing Director all between 1966 and 1974. He was also the Chairman of the Panel that decided the future of Northern States Interim Common Services Agency (ICSA) and Eastern States Interim Assets and Liabilities Agency (ESIALA) in 1968. This eminence was further edified by his appointment as a Director and later Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 1975 to 1977. Earlier in 1977, he had been a delegate to the Constituent Assembly, which ratified the country's constitution. As a practical politician, he was a Presidential Aspirant of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) and the National Republican Convention (NRC) in 1979 and 1992 respectively. Three times, the eminent Nigerian served as Minister of' the Federal Republic: Between 1979 and 1983, he was Minister of Industries and then Minister of Agriculture and then between 1999 and 2003, he served as Minister of Finance. Adamu Ciroma was a staunch member of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). Mallam Adamu Ciroma, a Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR) was turbaned Dellatun Fika in 1987 and Galadiman Fika on the 5th of April 2002. He served as Managing Director, Northern Resources Development Limited; United Nigerian Textiles Limited; Savannah Investment Company Limited and Chairman, Cubitts Nigeria Limited. He was a member of the National Council of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, member of the council of the Nigerian Institute of the International Affairs and member, Council for Management Education. Mallam Adamu Ciroma died on July 5, 2018 at National Hospital in Abuja.