Mamadou Maidah

Mamoudou Maidah (* 1924 in Tessaoua; † November 4, 2005 in Niamey, also Mamadou Maidah ) was a Nigerien teachers and politicians.

Life

Mamoudou Maidah went into Tessaoua, Maradi and Niamey to school. From 1942 to 1945 he attended the Normal School in Katibougou and then worked for four months as a teacher in Tahoua. Thereafter he served until 1947 when the skirmishers sénégalais. Over the next ten years Mamoudou Maidah worked as a teacher in Tahoua, Madarounfa, Maradi, Gazaoua and Tibiri. He graduated in 1955 a three-month training at Saint-Cloud in France and in 1958 headmaster in Tanout.

On December 20, 1958 Mamoudou Maidah was appointed as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry in the government of Prime Minister Hamani Diori. He remained until 1974, with changing government ministries member. On December 31, 1960, he was Minister of Education, on June 26, 1963 Secretary of State, on December 7, 1963 Minister again for the rural economy and on November 22, 1970 Minister of Foreign Affairs. As of August 17, 1972, he held the function of the Office of the President assigned the Minister and on 26 September 1972, he was finally Minister of Information.

On April 15, 1974 Hamani Diori was deposed by a coup by Seyni Kountché. Mamoudou Maidah was arrested as almost all the ministers and detained at the military camp of Agadez. He was only released in November 1987 under President Ali Saibou again. After that, he founded and led in Maradi a school called Collège Lako.