Umaru Mutallab

Alhaji Umaru Abdul Mutallab (born 15 December 1939) is a Nigerian businessman and financier, who served under the military government of General Murtala Mohammed and Olusegun Obasanjo.

[3] His son,[4]Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (the Christmas bomber) attempted to detonate plastic explosives aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on 25 December 2009 and is currently serving four life term sentences plus 50 years without parole at ADX Florence, a supermax federal prison in the United States.

[9][10] After completing his school certificate examinations in December 1959, Mutallab began work as a clerk with the firm of Pannell, Fitzpatrick and Company in Kaduna in January 1960.

[11] First as Federal Commissioner (i.e., Minister) of Economic Development (1975),[12] he was relieved of the position after the 1976 military coup d'état attempt that led to the death of General Murtala Mohammed.

[16] He held the office until 1988, and was a major financier of the 1979 presidential election,[17] which brought the National Party of Nigeria to power in the Second Republic led by President Shehu Shagari.

[22] Mutallab is chairman of the Business Working Group of the Vision 20:2020 Committee in Nigeria, and president of the Old Boys Association of Barewa College.

[7][29][30] His son's name was added in November 2009 to the US's 550,000-name Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, a database of the US National Counterterrorism Center.