President Muhammadu Buhari appoints former Minister of External Affairs, Prof. Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, as the new chief of staff.
Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, born November 24, 1944, in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. He was Minister for External Affairs between 1984 and 1985.
As a former Joint Special Representative of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), former UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, former Head of the UN Mission in Angola and Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York.
Also he is an author of not less than nine books.