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Tahirou Amadou

Nigerien politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ135411180 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tahirou Amadou is a Nigerien politician who served as Minister of Justice (Keeper of the Seals) under the presidency of Mahamane Ousmane during the Third Republic. He held office from 5 October 1994 to 25 February 1995.

Career

Tahirou Amadou was appointed Minister of Justice following Kandine Mallam Adam, taking office on 5 October 1994 as part of the transitional government in place during the Third Republic. He served until 25 February 1995, when Ibrahim Beidou succeeded him.

Editorial summary

“Tahirou Amadou” enters the record as nigerien politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tahirou, Amadou and Nigerien can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tahirou, Amadou and Nigerien.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Tahirou Amadou” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tahirou, Amadou and Nigerien provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q135411180. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1994 and 1995.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tahirou Amadou” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.