Background
Bali, Domkat Yah was born on February 27, 1940 in Langtang, Plateau, Nigeria. Son of Hassan Bali Tabut and Mela Yinkat Mwang.
Bali, Domkat Yah was born on February 27, 1940 in Langtang, Plateau, Nigeria. Son of Hassan Bali Tabut and Mela Yinkat Mwang.
Degree, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Camberley, England, 1963. Degree, Staff College, Camberley, 1972. Degree, Royal College Defense Studies, London, 1980.
Bali joined the Nigerian Army in 1961 and is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He undertook further military courses at Camberley, London. He entered Nigerian Military Training College in 1961 and in 1964, he was a lieutenant and troop commander.
Bali became captain a year later in 1965.
In 1966, he was battery commander and during the Nigerian Civil War, he was a regimental commander. He was made major in 1968.
Between 1970 and 1971, Bali was commander, Corps of Artillery and later became a colonel at the Second Infantry Division in Ibadan. In 1973, he was posted to Akure as the commander of the 9th Infantry Brigade, he was adjutant general Nigerian army in 1975, commander Corps of Artillery in 1976 and in 1978, he was the GOC of the First Infantry Division, Kaduna.
Prior to becoming Defense Minister in 1984, he was Commandant of the Nigerian Armed Forces Command and Staff College from 1981 to 1983 and later director of army training and operations.
He resigned from the army on January 10, 1990 after President Babangida took over his post as minister for defence.
He was Minister of Defence and member of the Supreme Military Council of 1984-1985, and the Armed Forces Ruling Council of 1985-1990. He was a board member of HFP Engineering, builders of Victoria Garden City and later took up farming as a hobby.
Married; children: Nanna, Ponfa Yakubu.