- Oluyemi Adeniji
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Oluyemi Adeniji Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs In office
July 2003 – June 2006Preceded by Sule Lamido Succeeded by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Federal Minister of Internal Affairs In office
21 June 2006 – May 2007Preceded by Magaji Muhammed Succeeded by Godwin Abbe Personal details Born 22 July 1934
Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, NigeriaAmbassador (retired) Oluyemi Adeniji (born July 22, 1934 in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State) is a Nigerian career diplomat and politician who was the Special Representative of the General Secretary with the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) from November 19, 1999 to July 16, 2003. Later he was Foreign Minister of Nigeria from July 2003 to June 2006, then Internal Affairs Minister from 21 June 2006 to May 2007.
Diplomatic career
Adeniji has a degree in History. He joined the Nigerian Foreign Service in July 1960. He served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Nigerian embassies in Washington, D.C., Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Accra, Ghana. He retired from service in 1991 after serving as the Director-General of the ministry of foreign affairs. For five years he was the Nigerian Ambassador to France.[1]
He was the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Representative for the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic (MINURCA). The mission was responsible for providing security in Bangui and for coordinating the legislative and presidential elections held in 1998 and 1999. He was then appointed the United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative for Sierra Leone and Head of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL).[1]
Later career
He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in July 2003.[1]
Beginning in early March 2008, he was heading negotiations in Kenya related to that country's political crisis, following the departure of the previous head negotiator, Kofi Annan.[2]
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- "ADENIJI, Oluyemi". OperationsPaix.net. University of Montreal. http://www.operationspaix.net/ADENIJI-Oluyemi. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
- "Sierra rebels free child soldiers". BBC Online (BBC). 2001-05-26. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1352801.stm. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
- "Huang Ju Meets with Nigerian Foreign Minister Oluyemi Adeniji". Fmprc.gov.cn (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China). 2005-03-24. http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zzjg/fzs/gjlb/3059/3061/t189130.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
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