Nazir Dafallah

Nazir Dafallah (Arabic: النذير دفع الله, 1922 – 1982) was a Sudanese politician and veterinary.^[1]

Nazir Dafallah (left) and El-Tigani el-Mahi, c. 1960s

Dafallah was born on 1 January 1922 in el-Obeid, Kordofan.^[1] He had degrees of veterinary sciences from University of Khartoum, and from University of Manchester.^[1] He worked as a veterinary officer in government research laboratories at Khartoum. He was a senior lecturer on bacteriology, and later dean in University of Khartoum. He was deputy vice-chancellor in University of Khartoum^[2] and professor of bacteriology from 1962 to 1968. He then worked in Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria from 1971 to 1972.^[1]

Dafallah was appointed as the Speaker of the People's Assembly from 1972^[3] to January 1974.^[1] He was then appointed as Minister of Health and Social Guidance from July 1974 to January 1975, and then Minister of Health from 1975 to 1979.^[1] In 1980s he was Minister of Education.^[4] He received several Orders during his lifetime. He died in 1982.^[5]