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Umaru Mutallab

Nigerian businessman and financier (born )

AlhajiUmaru Abdul Mutallab (born 15 December ) is a Nigerian businessman and financier, who served under the military government of General Murtala Mohammed and Olusegun Obasanjo.

Mutallab was described by The New York Times as "among Nigeria's richest and most prominent men",[1] by The Telegraph as being "one of Nigeria's most prominent bankers",[2] and by The Guardian as being "one of the country's most respected businessmen".[3]

His son,[4]Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (the Christmas bomber) attempted to detonate plastic explosives aboard Northwest Airlines Flight on 25 December and is currently serving four life term sentences plus 50 years without parole at ADX Florence, a supermax federal prison in the United States.

Biography

Mutallab was born to the family of Abdul Mutallab Barade, an officer in the Funtua Works Dept.

Umar farouk abdul mutallab picture Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Retrieved 30 December Mutallab was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of the Niger , one of Nigeria's highest honours. King also called for a halt to the repatriation of Guantanamo detainees from Yemen.

He lives in Funtua, in Katsina State in Northern Nigeria,[5] though reportedly the family owns homes in London and Ghana as well.[6] The family owns at least three homes in Nigeria (in Abuja, Funtua, and Kaduna).[7][8]

Education

He attended Barewa College, Zaria, Achimota College, Accra, Ghana, and the South West London College, London.

He was awarded an honorary doctoral degree by the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.[9][10]

Career

After completing his school certificate examinations in December , Mutallab began work as a clerk with the firm of Pannell, Fitzpatrick and Company in Kaduna in January

He then travelled for further studies, returning to Nigeria in , when he was appointed Chief Accountant of the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria.

In , he became the financial controller of the New Nigerian Development Company in Kaduna, before becoming the companies general manager in

Mutallab served as a government minister under General Murtala Mohammed and General Olusegun Obasanjo between and [11] First as Federal Commissioner (i.e., Minister) of Economic Development (),[12] he was relieved of the position after the military coup d'état attempt that led to the death of General Murtala Mohammed.[13] However, he was later named the new Minister of Cooperatives and Supplies ().[14]

In , he left the cabinet[15] and was made executive vice-chairman, managing director, and CEO of the United Bank for Africa (UBA).[16] He held the office until , and was a major financier of the presidential election,[17] which brought the National Party of Nigeria to power in the Second Republic led by President Shehu Shagari.[18]

Mutallab has also served on the boards of directors of several companies, including Arewa Textile Limited, NEPA, NACB, NCC, Nigeria Agip Oil, and Cement Company of Nigeria,

From to , he was the chairman of First Bank of Nigeria Plc, Nigeria's oldest and largest bank.[19][20] In was he chairman of several companies, including Impresit Bakolori Plc, Incar Nigeria Plc, and Spring Waters Nigeria Limited (SWAN).[21] He is the major shareholder in Barade Holdings and Barumark Investment and Development Company.

Muttalab played a major role in introducing Islamic banking into Nigeria, and he is the chairman of the Nigeria's first Islamic bank, Jaiz Bank International Plc, which was established in [22]

Mutallab is chairman of the Business Working Group of the Vision Committee in Nigeria, and president of the Old Boys Association of Barewa College.[23] He is a Fellow of both the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA).

Mutallab was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of the Niger, one of Nigeria's highest honours.[24]

Personal life

Though very religious, Mutallab does not consider himself a religious extremist, explaining that he learned the capacity for tolerance while attending Barewa College which had students from many parts of the country and 'gives' a feeling of togetherness.[13] He is also a member of the Kaduna Mafia, a loose group of Nigerian businessmen, civil servants, intellectuals and military officers from Northern Nigeria, who resided or conducted their activities in Kaduna, the former capital of the region towards the end of the First Republic.

Mutallab was a close friend and associate of the mafia's financier Hamza Zayyad, who convinced him to take on accounting as a profession.

Umar farouk abdul mutallab biography for kids A number of sources reported contacts between Abdulmutallab and Anwar al-Awlaki, an American Yemeni Muslim lecturer and spiritual leader who had been accused of being a senior al-Qaeda talent recruiter and motivator. He rarely attended class, and sometimes he left class midway to go pray at a mosque. On January 27, , the House Committee on Homeland Security continued a series of hearings across Capitol Hill that started prior to January 27, , all looking into the events leading up to and after the attempted bombing of Flight over Detroit. Last January he was indicted by a US grand jury on six charges, including the attempted murder of the plane's passengers and crew, and attempted use of weapons of mass destruction.

Son: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

Main article: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

Mutallab had agreed in July to allow his son, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the youngest of his 16 children and a son of the second of his two wives (who is from Yemen), to return to the Sanaʽa Institute for the Arabic Language in Yemen to study Arabic from August to September [25][26][7] His son apparently left the institute after a month, while remaining in Yemen.[7][26][27] In October, his son sent him a text message saying that he wanted to study sharia and Arabic in a seven-year course in Yemen.[7] His father threatened to cut off his funding, whereupon his son said he was "already getting everything for free".[7]

Mutallab reported to two CIA officers at the US Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, on 19 November ,[26][28] regarding his son's "extreme religious views", and told the embassy that he might be in Yemen.[7][29][30] His son's name was added in November to the US's ,name Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, a database of the US National Counterterrorism Center.[31] His US visa was not revoked.[7] On 25 December , Umar was implicated in the attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight [25]

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