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Counsel in 1983. He had a stint at an Italian consultancy firm Sotesa Nigeria Limited earlier. In 1994 he stablished his own law practice firm Messrs Mustapha & Associates and served as its Principal Counsel until 2000. He later worked in another law firm Adriot Lex & Co. serving as
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Nigeria's 2015 general elections. In 2014, after merger of their party he Mustapha ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Adamawa State. He later served in the presidential campaigns and was among the members of its transition committee in
363:. Buhari resigned his position as executive chairman of the body earlier. The committee, Interim Management Committee, did their work but the report was never made public. Mustapha served as the deputy director-general to the presidential campaign of then Vice President
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Consultant from 2000 to 2006. Mustapha has served as a member of several boards of companies in the manufacturing, financial services and oil and gas sectors – he has been described as a "boardroam guru".
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Presidential Task Force for the control of the virus in the country. SGF Boss Mustapha was appointed Chairman of the twelve member task force, since then the task force has held daily briefings.
296:. Mustapha attended primary school in Hong, Adamawa and proceeded to North East College of Arts and Sciences in Maiduguri, Borno State for his high school education. He graduated in 1976. He attended
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Federal Executive Council, in the Council Chambers,
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Constituent Assembly, the body that drafted the Constitution of the
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Bachelor of Law (LL.B) in 1979. He proceeded to Nigeria Law School, Lagos for mandatory one-year law class and graduated in 1980. He was called to
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President Buhari Appoints SGF Boss Mustapha As Chairman Of Presidential Task Force On Coronavirus
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Buhari Re-appoints Boss Mustapha As SGF And Abba Kyari As Chief of Staff to the President
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992:"Nigerian president sacks senior official amid claims of corruption"
336:. Between 1990 and 1991, Mustapha was Adamawa state chairman of the
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Mustapha started his legal practice in Messrs Onagoruwa & Co in
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to investigate the activities of the Petroleum Trust Fund under
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Mustapha was born in 1956 in Garaha, a village located in
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Managing Director of Nigeria Inland Waterways Authority
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470:Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic
519:"Breaking: President Buhari appoints new SGF"
397:Secretary to the Government of the Federation
391:Secretary to the Government of the Federation
374:Mustapha was deputy national chairman of the
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1188:at National Inland Waterways Authority.
1054:"Buhari Swears-In Boss Mustapha As SGF"
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990:Akinwotu, Emmanuel (8 November 2017).
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1052:Awosiyan, Kunle (1 November 2017).
822:"Agenda for new SGF, Boss Mustapha"
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858:China, Chidi (30 October 2017).
768:"Meet the new SGF Boss Mustapha"
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369:2007 presidential election
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298:Ahmadu Bello University
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320:Early political career
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733:"Boss Gida Mustapha"
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