Aliou Mahamidou

Aliou Mahamidou ( born June 7, 1947 in Tahoua, † January 13, 1996 in Niamey ) was a Nigerien industrialist and politician. He was Prime Minister from 1990 to 1991 in his country.

Life

Aliou Mahamidou attended schools in his native town of Tahoua and the National Lycée in Niamey, where in 1968 he made ​​his baccalauréat. From 1969 to 1974 he studied at the National University of the Ivory Coast and the University of Rouen in France. He completed his studies with a Licence in Economics. Mahamidou first worked from 1974 to 1975 as head of section for industry in the Niger Ministry of Development. After further training at the Institut International d'Administration Publique in Paris, he joined in 1977 in the service of the Nigerien Ministry of Planning. There he was responsible for, among other things, as head of financial affairs. Then Mahamidou worked from 1984 to 1985 as an official adviser ( conseiller technique) of the Cabinet of Prime Minister Hamid Algabid. Mahamidou 1985 Director General of the Société de Nigérienne Cimenterie (SNC ), the state-owned cement plant in Malbaza, which he remained until 1990.

President Ali Saibou initially had abolished the office of prime minister on 20 December 1989 and introduced after student protests in the capital Niamey again on March 2, 1990. With the Office Aliou Mahamidou was entrusted, then a political career changers, who had made himself a name as a successful entrepreneur. At the same time Saibou undertook a major cabinet reshuffle, was appointed Interior Minister Mamadou Tandja again at the. In March 1991 Mahamidou was also Party Secretary for Economic Affairs of the National Movement of the Development Society. His tenure as Prime Minister, a stop insurgent Tuareg fell on the sub-prefecture in Tchintabaraden, followed by a military counter-offensive, and the incipient political opening and democratization of Niger. As part of the government was disbanded on 29 July 1991. In the successor government from October 27, 1991 Amadou Cheiffou served as Prime Minister. Aliou Mahamidou died just five years later, after an illness at a hospital in Niamey.