Friday, March 23, 2018

Celebrate General (retired) Augustine Aniebo on His birthday






General (retired) Augustine Aniebo (born March 23, 1950), was the Military Administrator of Borno StateNigeria during the military regime of General Sani Abacha.He then became Administrator of Kogi StateNigeria from August 1998 to 29 May 1999 during the transitional regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar, handing over to the elected civilian governor Abubakar Audu on May 29, 1999 at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic.


Borno State Administrator

In May 1997 Nigerian security agents, working with Islamic leaders, stormed a Christian church in MaiduguriBorno State and ejected the pastor and church members. The church leaders appealed to Aniebo to act quickly to avoid a religious crisis. In 1998 he said that the Borno State task force against smuggling had been strengthened to reduce cross-border smuggling of petroleum products to neighboring countries.

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