Samaila Bature Chamah

Colonel (Later Brigadier General) Samaila Bature Chamah was Administrator of Katsina State in Nigeria from August 1996 to August 1998 during the military regime of General Sani Abacha, and then of Kebbi State from August 1998 to May 1999 during the transitional regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar, handing over power to the elected civilian governor Adamu Aliero on 29 May 1999.

All military governors and administrators in the Babangida, Abacha and Abubakar regimes were retired by the Federal Government in June 1999, including Brigadier-General Samuel Chamah. Later he became the Managing Director / CEO of Falpas Ventures Ltd, the Representative of “My Africa” magazine in Nigeria. Brigadier General (Deacon) Samaila Bature Chamah died at the IBB Golf club in Abuja in 2007.