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Buhari IMinister of Interior· November 2015 — May 2019

Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd)

Former Chief of Army Staff (2008–2010); Minister of Interior under Buhari I.

The record

Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (b. 23 May 1954, Kano) was Chief of Army Staff under Yar'Adua and Jonathan from 2008 to 2010.

As Minister of Interior, he oversaw the Nigerian Correctional Service Act 2019, which replaced the colonial-era Prisons Act and renamed the Nigerian Prisons Service as the Nigerian Correctional Service.

Sources

  • Nigerian Correctional Service Act, No. 17 of 2019
Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.