Mahamadou Ibrahim Bagadoma

Mahamadou Ibrahim Bagadoma is a Nigerien politician and gendarme currently serving as the governor of Diffa Region since 2023. Between March and August 2023, he served as commander-in-chief of the Gendarmerie Nationale.

Biography Bagadoma was born on June 3, 1961, in Zinder, Niger. He completed his primary and secondary studies in Zinder, and later attended the University of Niamey. He joined the Gendarmerie Nationale in 1983.

Military career Bagadoma served as a gendarme in several UN missions, beginning with UNAMIR in Rwanda in 1995. From 2014 to 2017, Bagadoma was a police officer in MINUSMA in Mali. After the 2023 Nigerien coup d'état in July, Bagadoma was appointed Governor of Diffa Region on August 3, being replaced as commander of the gendarmerie by Karimou Hima Abdoulaye.

Gubernatorial career When Bagadoma first arrived to his post in Diffa, he met with outgoing governor Smaine Younousse and local civil society and political officials. Early on in his post in 2023, Bagadoma established disaster preparedness and response mechanisms in Diffa Region, which were crucial in assisting 30,000 people during heavy flooding in 2025. In January 2024, he spearheaded a new program to increase agricultural productivity, similar to Iro Oumarou in Dosso. By July 2025, this program was seeinng success.

As governor of Diffa, Bagadoma has coordinated with governors and regional leaders in Chad, Nigeria, and Cameroon against the omnipresent threat of Boko Haram and ISWAP, despite the Nigerien government's withdrawal from the Multinational Joint Task Force. However, Bagadoma accused the Nigerian government of interfering in Niger, saying in 2025 "there can only be cooperation and coordination when Nigerian interference and sabotage against his counntry stopped."

Personal life Bagadoma is married and has six children.