UNITED

NATIONS

Distr.

GENERAL

CCPR/SP/43/Add.1

22 July 1994

Original: ENGLISH

MEETING OF STATES PARTIES

Fourteenth meeting

New York

8 September 1994

ELECTION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLES 28 AND 32 OF THE INTERNATIONAL

COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, OF NINE MEMBERS OF THE

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO REPLACE THOSE WHOSE TERMS ARE DUE TO

EXPIRE ON 31 DECEMBER 1994

Note by the Secretary-General

Addendum

1.	In connection with the list of candidates mentioned in annex III to document CCPR/C/43, the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations Office at Geneva informed the secretariat, in a note dated 4 July 1994, that the Government of Nigeria has decided to nominate Mr. Suleimanu Kumo as its candidate in the forthcoming elections to the Human Rights Committee and to withdraw the nomination of Mr. T. Olusegun Apata. Biographical data of Mr. Suleimanu Kumo, as provided by the State party concerned are contained in the annex to the present document.

2.	In a note dated 19 July 1994, the Permanent Mission of Togo to the United Nations informed the secretariat that the Government of Togo has decided to withdraw the nomination of Mr. Komi Bouwèmenda Gnondoli as one of its candidates in the forthcoming elections to the Human Rights Committee.

GE.94-17824 (E)

Annex

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

Mr. Suleimanu Kumo (Nigeria)

Name:	Suleimanu Kumo

Age last birthday:	55 years

Nationality:	Nigerian

State of origin:	Bauchi

Local government area:	Akko

Marital status:	Married with children

Occupation:	Legal practitioner

Current address:	(a)	G.R.A. Gombe (residential)

(b)	15A Sokoto Road, G.R.A. Kano (residential)

(c)	Gidan Shehu Ahmed, Bank Road, Kano (office)

Education qualifications:

Ph.D (London University)	November 1972

LL.M. (London University) (with specialization

in Comparative Constitutional Law, Comparative

Criminal Law and Procedure and Islamic Family Law)	July 1968

LL.B (London University)	July 1965

Called to the English Bar (Lincolns Inn)	July 1965

Called to the Nigerian Bar	July 1966

Positions held:

(a)	Government

Pupil State Counsel, Northern Nigerian Government - 1966-1967;

State Counsel North Eastern State Government (notional from 1967);

Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions North Eastern State Government	(notional from 1974).

(b)	University

Assistant Lecturer Faculty of Law, A.B.U.,

Zaria	1967

Lecturer Faculty of Law, A.B.U. Zaria	1969

Senior Lecturer Faculty of Law, A.B.U. Zaria	1973

Director, Institute of Administration, A.B.U.

Zaria	From November 1975

Deputy Vice-Chancellor, A.B.U. Zaria	1976-1977

Subjects taught while in the A.B.U. Zaria:

Criminal Law to LL.B and Diploma-in-Law students of the Faculty of Law;

Criminal Law and General Principles of Law to students in the Faculty of	Administration;

Islamic Family Law to LL.B and Diploma-in-Law students of the Faculty of	Law;

Law of Torts to LL.B students;

Law of Torts, Criminal Law and Constitutional and Administrative Law to	the students of Administrative Service Training Courses, Institute of	Administration, A.B.U., Zaria.

(c)	Political

Commissioner, Economic Planning and Political Affairs, North-Eastern State Government, 1972-1975;

Elected member Constituent Assembly, 1977-1978;

Elected delegate National Constitutional Conference, 1994.

(d)	Statutory corporations

Director, Central Bank of Nigeria, 1975-1984;

Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) 1989-1994;

Chairman, Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (KRPC) 1989-1991.

(e)	Others

Member, Islam in Africa Organization, 1991 to date;

Member, Islamic Relief Agency, 1992 to date.

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