Aminu Saleh

Who is Aminu Saleh?

Aminu Saleh is a Nigerian administrator, former Finance Minister, and permanent secretary in the Nigerian ministry of Defense. He became the chairman of the National Qu'ranic Recitation Committee in 2006.

He is an indigene of Bauchi State and has served in various capacities at both the state and the federal level. He served Obasanjo's regime in the 1970s and Abacha's beginning in 1992.

Saleh is also the owner of a Nigerian beverage known as "Brahma and Tandi Guarana" and a shareholder in various Nigeria-based industries. He is currently a member of Vision 2010.

Born in 1933 in Azare, Katagum LG, Bauchi State. Attended elementary school in Azare 1941-44, Bauchi middle school 1944-49, attended clerical training college Zaria, 1950-51 attended institute of administration Zaria for diploma in accounting 1956-57. He was on an evening university degree course in University of Lagos 1963-67, he had attended post graduate course in management in University of Wisconsin in USA.

WORKING EXPERIENCE Joined the Katagum Native Authority in 1949, became Katagum Native Authority Treasurer in 1957, transferred to Federal Government in 1962. He was under Dr. Pius Okigbo the then Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister, his pupilage in budget and national plan techniques under Dr. Edwin Ogbu Permanent Secretary Fed. Min. of Finance who later became Nigeria’s permanent representative to the United Nations, the rigorous drills he regularly had in financial discipline and management in the hands of Abdul-Aziz Attah the Permanent Secretary Fed. Min. of Finance and later SGF, the induction he went through in contract negotiations, preparation and its administrative supervision under Engr. S.O. Williams Perm. Sec. Min. of Communication who later became the Fed. Minister of Communication, and lastly and not the least the humble and able Dr. Bukar Sha’ibu Perm. Sec. Fed. Min. of Agric, a sober person who asked him to look for order and justice, who later became Nigeria’s representative at the World Food and Agricultural Organization.