Boukary Adji

Boukary Adji (* 1939 in Tanout ; † July 4, 2018 ; also Boukari Adji ) was a Nigerien politician and bank manager . He was Finance Minister from 1983 to 1987 and Prime Minister of Niger in 1996 .

Life

Boukary Adji came from the Damergou in central Niger. He attended elementary schools in Tanout and Zinder from 1947 to 1953 . From 1953 to 1958 he completed the Cours Normal in Tahoua and from 1959 he attended the Collège Classique et Moderne in Niamey , from which he graduated in 1962 with the Baccalauréat . Adji began studying in Poland on a scholarship in 1963 . From 1964 to 1965 he studied at the Institut Africain de Développement et de Planification (IDEP) in Dakar . He initially worked for three years as a civil servant in the General Commissioner for Planning, before training at the Center d'études financières et bancaires in Paris from 1968 to 1969 .

From 1971 Adji worked for the UEMOA Central Bank of the West African Economic and Monetary Union , at whose training center for executive employees in Abidjan he received a diploma in the same year. He worked until 1975 as a senior official of the representative office of the UEMOA central bank in Niamey and then until 1983 as its director for Niger. In addition, from 1978 to 1983 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company entrusted with the construction of the trunk road between Tahoua and the mining town of Arlit . In 1982 he chaired a committee to stimulate economic activity in Niger.

Boukary Adji was appointed finance minister in the Nigerien government under Head of State Seyni Kountché on November 14, 1983 . In this function he replaced Moussa Tondi . During his time in government, Adji was temporarily President of the Council of Ministers of the West African Economic and Monetary Union and, in 1984, President of the Board of Directors of the Nigerian Development Bank. In 1986 he received his PhD from the University of Clermont-Ferrand . After Seyni Kountché's death, Mamadou Beïdari succeeded him as Finance Minister on November 20, 1987 . Adji then worked as a director at the headquarters of the UEMOA central bank in Dakar, from September 1993 as its lieutenant governor.

After the coup led by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , Boukary Adji was appointed Prime Minister on January 30, 1996. Adji declared that overcoming the problems of the rural population and the upturn in the economic and financial sector were the priorities of his government. After the parliamentary elections in 1996 , he was replaced as Prime Minister on December 21, 1996 by Amadou Boubacar Cissé . He returned to his previous post as Vice Governor of the UEMOA Central Bank in Dakar in January 1997.

Boukary Adji died in 2018 and was buried in the Muslim cemetery of Yantala in Niamey .

Fonts

In the méandres d'une transition politique . Karthala, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-86537-857-8 .

Honors

Grand Cross of the Nigerien National Order (2012)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Chaïbou Maman: Répertoire biographique des personnalités de la classe politique et des leaders d'opinion du Niger de 1945 à nos jours . Volume II. Démocratie 2000, Niamey 2003, p. 236-237 .
↑ Boukari Adji. In: Afrique Express. Archived from the original on December 12, 2007 ; accessed on April 26, 2020 (French).
↑ ^a ^b ^c List of the gouvernements successifs de la République du Niger de 1957 à 2016. (PDF) Service de la documentation générale du secrétariat général de la Présidence de la République, archived from the original on November 14, 2018 ; accessed on April 1, 2020 (French).
^ Niger Parliamentary Chamber: Assemblée nationale. Elections held in 1996. Inter-Parliamentary Union , accessed April 26, 2020 .
^ Levée du corps de l'ancien Premier Ministre de Boukari Adji. Agence Nigérienne de Presse, July 6, 2018, accessed April 26, 2020 (French).
↑ A la Présidence de la République: Le Chef de l'Etat signe plusieurs décrets portant nomination ou promotion aux Ordres nationaux du Niger on the occasion of the fête du 18 December 2012. In: Niger Diaspora. January 4, 2013, archived from the original on February 7, 2017 ; accessed on April 26, 2020 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Adji, boukary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Adji, boukari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Nigerien politician and bank manager
DATE OF BIRTH	1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tanout
DATE OF DEATH	4th July 2018

[Maman_236_237-1] Chaïbou Maman: Répertoire biographique des personnalités de la classe politique et des leaders d'opinion du Niger de 1945 à nos jours . Volume II. Démocratie 2000, Niamey 2003, p. 236-237 .

[2] Boukari Adji. In: Afrique Express. Archived from the original on December 12, 2007 ; accessed on April 26, 2020 (French).

[Gouvernements_successifs-3] List of the gouvernements successifs de la République du Niger de 1957 à 2016. (PDF) Service de la documentation générale du secrétariat général de la Présidence de la République, archived from the original on November 14, 2018 ; accessed on April 1, 2020 (French).

[4] Niger Parliamentary Chamber: Assemblée nationale. Elections held in 1996. Inter-Parliamentary Union , accessed April 26, 2020 .

[5] Levée du corps de l'ancien Premier Ministre de Boukari Adji. Agence Nigérienne de Presse, July 6, 2018, accessed April 26, 2020 (French).

[6] A la Présidence de la République: Le Chef de l'Etat signe plusieurs décrets portant nomination ou promotion aux Ordres nationaux du Niger on the occasion of the fête du 18 December 2012. In: Niger Diaspora. January 4, 2013, archived from the original on February 7, 2017 ; accessed on April 26, 2020 (French).