MAHMOUD, Ahmad Rufai

BA, diplomat, administrator, banker, born March 6, 1944, Koki, Kano City; married Fatima Abubakar Gummi 1974, two sons, one daughter; Edu cation: Katsina Practising Primary School, 1953-55, Kano Dandago Primary School, 1955-56, Kano City Senior Primary School, 1957-59, Government Secondary School, Kano, 1960-66, Abdullahi Bayero College Campus, Ahmadu Bello University, 1966-70; Career: Appointed Assistant Secretary, Kano State Ministry of Trade, 1970; External- Affairs Officer, Ministry ofExternal Af fairs, 1970-80; Third Secretary, Embassy of Nigeria, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1971-72; Third Secretary and Acting Head ofChan cery, Embassy of Nigeria, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 1972-73; Second Secretary and Head of Chancery, Embassy of Nigeria, Rabat, Morocco, 1973-74; First Secretary and Head of Chancery, Nigeria High Commission Trinidad and Tobago, with concurrent ac creditation to Barbados and Guyana and also overlooking St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenada, 1974-77; Senior Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Nigerian Permanent Mis sion to The United Nations, New York, USA, 1977-78; member, United Nations Organisation's Fifth Committee; member, United…