Alhaji Abubakarr Jalloh is a

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an politician. Since the election of

Ernest Bai Koroma Ernest Bai Koroma (born 2 October 1953) is a Sierra Leone, Sierra Leonean politician who served as the fourth President of Sierra Leone from 17 September 2007 to 4 April 2018. Born and raised in Makeni in northern Sierra Leone, Koroma spent mo ...

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in September 2007, Jalloh has served as Minister of Mineral Resources. In 2002 Presidential election, Jalloh was the running mate of Koroma in the All People's Congress Party. He is a member of the

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ethnic group.

Education

Jalloh attended the Methodist Boys’ High School in Freetown and then completed his

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at Prince of Wales School. Jalloh then attended

Fourah Bay College Fourah Bay College is a public university in the neighbourhood of Mount Aureol in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Founded on 18 February 1827, it is the first western-style university built in Sub-Saharan Africa and, furthermore, the first university-le ...

where he majored in math and physics. At Fourah Bay, Jalloh became involved in

Maoist Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...

student protests. Jalloh later earned master's degrees in geophysics, atmospheric physics and hydrogeology from

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and

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respectively.

External links

Profile of Alhaji Abubakarr Jalloh
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