Mohammed Maina

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|office1 = Governor of Borno State

|term_start1 = December 1989

|term_end1 = June 1990

|predecessor1 = Abdul One Mohammed

|successor1 = Mohammed Buba Marwa

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Lt. Colonel Mohammed Maina was governor of Borno State, Nigeria during the military administration of General Ibrahim Babangida.{{cite web

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

|publisher=WorldStatesmen

|title=Nigeria States

|accessdate=2010-05-13}}

Maina was a member of the Lagos Zone military tribunal set up in 1984 by the administration of General Muhammadu Buhari to try public officers from the Shehu Shagari era who had been accused of embezzling public funds.{{cite web

|url=http://www.newnigerianpolitics.com/indextemplatecom_max_siollun_IBB_his_life_and_times_part_4_aug_16_2008.html

|title=Babangida: His Life & Times (Part IV)

|author=Max Siollun

|author-link=Max Siollun

|work=New Nigerian Politics

|date=August 16, 2008

|accessdate=2010-05-13

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Appointed Borno State governor in 1990, he lived lavishly and had no patience with accounting procedures, making withdrawals from state funds through "brief notes to accounting authorities at the Treasury.{{cite book

|page=154

|title=Nigeria's Third Republic: the problems and prospects of political transition to civil rule

|author=Bamidele A. Ojo

|author-link=Bamidele A Ojo

|publisher=Nova Publishers

|year=1998

|ISBN=1-56072-580-X}}

In March 1990 he entertained the Prince and Princess of Wales on a visit to the state. {{cite web

|url=http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1990/03/25/CR2233/?s=officials

|title=PRINCE & PRINCESS OF WALES CAMEROON & NIGERIA VISIT

|date=25 March 1990

|work=ITN Source

|accessdate=2010-05-13}}