Garba Ali Mohammed

{{Infobox Governor

|name = Garba Ali Mohammed

|image =

|office = Administrator of Niger State

|term_start = 1986

|term_end = December 1987

|predecessor = David Mark

|successor = Lawan Gwadabe

|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|4|12|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria

|party =

|Educational background =

}}

Garba Ali Mohammed was Military Administrator of Niger State in Nigeria from 1986 to December 1987 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.{{cite web

|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Nigeria_federal_states.htm#Niger

|publisher=WorldStatesmen

|title=Nigeria States

|access-date=2010-03-25}}

Garba Mohammed was born on 13 April 1949 in Zaria, Kaduna State. He studied at the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and at the Engineers' School, Fort Belvoir, USA.{{cite web

|url=http://www.newswatchngr.com/cgi-bin/search/sessearch.cgi?off=1&q=zaria&qid=1064&strt=20

|title=In The News: Garba Ali Mohammed

|date=2002-08-04

|work=Newswatch

|access-date=2010-03-25

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He qualified as a quantity surveyor.{{cite web

|url=http://www.neicng.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61&Itemid=68

|publisher=National Economic Intelligence Committee

|title=Establishment of NEIC

|access-date=2010-03-25

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Lt. Col. G.A. Mohammed was Military Administrator of Niger State in Nigeria from 1986 to December 1987 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.

Brigadier General Garba Mohammed was appointed member / secretary of the National Economic Intelligence Committee when it was established on 17 February 1994.

He was appointed Minister of Works and Housing in December 1997.

He was confirmed in this position on 22 August 1998, after a cabinet reshuffle in the interim government of General Abdulsalam Abubakar.{{cite web

|url=http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Newsletters/irinw_82498.html

|title=Briefing note on Nigeria: Nigeria's new cabinet 98.8.24

|publisher=UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs

|date=24 August 1998

|access-date=2010-03-25}}

In January 2006 he chaired the 3rd Media Trust Annual Dialogue in Abuja.{{cite web

|url=http://ttimesabuja.com/articles/AfNuhuRibabu11-2-06.html

|title=HOW CORRUPT LEADERS INSTITUTIONALIZED CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA- NUHU RIBADU

|author=George Oji

|date=2006-01-20

|work=Transatlantic Times

|access-date=2010-03-25

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717110906/http://ttimesabuja.com/articles/AfNuhuRibabu11-2-06.html

|archive-date=2011-07-17

|url-status=dead

}}

In November 2008, as National Vice President of the Nigerian Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, he was a member of a delegation that visited Lebanon to explore investment opportunities.{{cite web

|url = http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1414:between-nigeria-and-lebanon-the-way-forward&Itemid=167

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110708105344/http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1414%3Abetween-nigeria-and-lebanon-the-way-forward&Itemid=167

|url-status = dead

|archive-date = 8 July 2011

|work = Business Day

|title = Between Nigeria and Lebanon, the way forward

|date = 21 November 2008

|author = SIMON NJOKU

|access-date = 2010-03-25

}}