Preceded by Viola Onwuliri Succeeded by Geoffrey Onyeama | Nationality Nigeria | |
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Alma mater North-Western Polytechnic, London
Provincial Secondary School, Kano Education University of North London | ||
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Aminu Bashir Wali (born 3 August, 1941) was Nigeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2015.
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Early life and education
Wali was born in Kano in 1941. Aminu Bashir Wali education included training at the School of Arabic Studies in Kano and graduation in 1967 with a degree in Business Administration from the North-Western Polytechnic in London.
Career
From 2004, he was Nigeria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He then became the Ambassador of Nigeria to the People's Republic of China.
Wali was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Goodluck Jonathan's administration. Trips abroad included one by Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to Turkey. In October 2014 Wali received the Foreign Minister of Germany and France, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Laurent Fabius, discuss the Boko Harum kidnappings and measures to combat the outbreak of Ebola.