Boukary Adji (1939
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Niger ) , official_languages = , languages_type = National languagesPrime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...

from 30 January 1996 to 21 December 1996. Adji was born in Tanout in Zinder Department. He studied in

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on a scholarship he received in 1963, then at the University of Abidjan and at the Center for Financial and Banking Studies in Paris. He was appointed as Director in the Ministry of Planning in the early 1970s and became the Director of the

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(BCEAO) for Niger. In the government named on 14 November 1983, he was appointed

Minister of Finance A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...

,"GOUVERNEMENTS DU PRESIDENT SEYNI KOUNTCHE"
, official Nigerien presidency website . in which position he remained until after the 1987 death of

Seyni Kountché Seyni Kountché (1 July 1931 – 10 November 1987) was a Nigerien military officer who led a 1974 coup d'état that deposed the government of Niger's first president, Hamani Diori. He ruled the country as military head of state from 17 April ...

. Later he served as Vice-Governor of the BCEAO. He was named Prime Minister after

Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara General Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara (May 9, 1949 – April 9, 1999) was a military officer and diplomat in Niger who ruled the country from his seizure of power in 1996 until his assassination during the military coup of April 1999. Baré Maïn ...

seized power in a January 1996 military coup. He died in Niamey on July 4, 2018.

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1939 births 2018 deaths Ministers of council of Niger Prime Ministers of Niger Finance ministers of Niger People from Zinder Region {{Niger-politician-stub