Samson Omeruah
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Samson Emeka Omeruah (14 August 1943 – 4 December 2006) was an air commodore of the Nigerian Air Force, he served as governor of Anambra State from 1985 to 1987 and as Minister for Information, Youth, Sport and Culture in Nigeria during the regimes of Generals Muhammadu Buhari, Sani Abacha and Abdulsalami Abubakar.
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Zaria, Northern Region, British Nigeria
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Samson Emeka Omeruah (14 August 1943 – 4 December 2006) was an air commodore of the Nigerian Air Force, he served as governor of Anambra State from 1985 to 1987 and as Minister for Information, Youth, Sport and Culture in Nigeria during the regimes of Generals Muhammadu Buhari, Sani Abacha and Abdulsalami Abubakar. He was a chairman of the Nigeria Football Association Nigeria's top football governing body and still regarded as its most successful chair. He was also the minister of Sports when the Nigerian Golden Eaglets took home the FIFA under 17 world championship cup. He returned to the position in 1994, in time to see the national team make their first World Cup and win the 1996 Olympic gold medal. He was one of the proponents of privatizing the game in Nigeria and removing control from state governments. Apart from this, he championed the War Against Indiscipline (WAI) programme of the Buhari regime between January 1983 and August 1985. He was a committed Christian of the Methodist faith and earned a PhD from the University of Lagos in addition to degrees from Punjab University, India and Auburn University in the United States.
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