Kalla Ankourao

Kalla Ankourao (born 1 January 1946[1][2]) is a Nigerien politician.

[5] Following the January 1995 parliamentary election, he was appointed Minister of Public Health in the government named on February 25, 1995;[6] this government was overthrown in a military coup in January 1996.

[8] As of the Fourth Ordinary Congress of the PNDS in September 2004, Ankourao is a member of the party's National Executive Committee as Second Deputy Secretary-General.

[9] After Mahamadou Issoufou won the January–March 2011 presidential election and took office as President on 7 April 2011, Ankourao was appointed to the government as Minister of Equipment on 21 April 2011.

[10][11] Ankourao served as Minister of Equipment for a little less than a year; he was dismissed from the government on 2 April 2012.