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After the military coup of 1966, Waziri went into private business. During the
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In 1962, Nigeria conducted a controversial census that was rejected by political leaders from the
Eastern and Western region; the office of the census officer was under Waziri's ministry. Accusations of over counting were made on all sides, with Waziri accusing the Eastern region of inflating
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and a soap and flour mill in
Maiduguri. He opened a 5 million naira Herwa clinic in Kano. He entered the fishing industry after buying out Stephen Tolbert's fishing concern and in addition, imported frozen fish under the corporate name Nigeria Cold Stores.
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population figures while the southern leaders labelled the
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capital expenditure budget over a six-year span based on a projected 4% annual growth in GDP and investment of resources in productive projects to foster development. Among the major planks of the budget, was the development of the
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as a trainee manager in 1948. At the firm, he rose through clerical and administrative ranks from acting as a cashier and storekeeper at U.A.C.'s, Maiduguri branch in 1951. He then worked at
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Ibrahim was born on 26 February 1926 in Yerwa, Maiduguri. His father, Baba Alhaji
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where his father was the imam of a local mosque. He attended
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in 1952 before becoming a labour and staff manager for Benue division in 1953. By the time he left the firm, he was district manager of Kaduna.
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