Mohamadou Bayero Fadil
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Mohamadou Bayero Fadil | |
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| Head of the Board of Directors for the Agency of Standards and Quality. | |
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| Born | 19 December 1960 |
| Party | CPDM |
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Mohamadou Bayero Fadil (born 19 December 1960) is a Cameroonian businessman and politician,[1] best known as chairman of MBF Holding and former president of the Fadil Group, one of Cameroon's long standing family who owned conglomerates.[2][3] He is also a member of the Central Committee of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM).[4]
Fadil was born in Garoua, his father El Hadj Abdoulaye Fadil, a businessman from Rabinga in northern Cameroon, and his mother Hadja Hawa Doudou from Garoua are member of the Fulani (Foulbé) ethnic group, traditionally associated with trade and cattle herding.[4][5]
In 1999, Mohamadou Bayero Fadil married Fatima Gumsu, born in 1973 and originally from Nigeria. She is the daughter of former Nigerian president Sani Abacha. The couple had five children together: three sons and two daughters. From his first marriage, celebrated in 1986, Fadil had previously had six children (four sons and two daughters). After twenty years of marriage, the couple separated in December 2019.
On March 27, 2020, Dr. Mohamadou Bayero Fadil formalized his marriage to Habiba, the daughter of businessman Elhadj Bouba Zra Doua, originally from Mogode Mokolo in Cameroon's Far North Region. Her family has been living in the New Bell neighborhood of Douala since 1978.
Education
Fadil studied in the United States, earning a degree in management economics from Bates College in Maine. He later pursued coursework in industrial organization at Georgetown University and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering).[3]