Sentences with phrase «as military head»

The man was too good, but he failed as military head of state, lost three consecutive elections, a record in Nigeria, now unsure as president.

Osuntokun said Buhari should not forget to blame himself for Nigeria's woes since he is also a former leader having served as a military head of state from 1983 to 1985.

He was even applauded by many when he claimed he could not afford the presidential nomination form of his party despite having served as a military head of state, a key player in another military government adjudged as most corrupt by both local and international bodies, a former military governor, a petroleum minister and chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), an agency that was also alleged of corruption.

«This same thing only happened when the incumbent President ruled this country as a military head of state.

Fayose, however, lamented that Obasanjo wasted all the golden opportunities that he had to make this country great, first as a military Head of State and later as a two - term civilian President.

He recalled how his refusal to adhere to an advice from the IMF, World Bank to devalue the naira and increase prices of fuel and flour, as a military Head of State, led to his removal.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja vowed never to allow history to repeat itself like during his term as military Head of State...

Immediate past National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), has sworn that he never maltreated nor took part in maltreating President Muhammadu Buhari when he, as military head of...

Greatest short cut When he was there as military head of state, most of the politicians were sent to confront tribunals and tribunals jailed many of them for hundreds of years.

There is difference between when he was there as military head of state and today that he is there as elected president.

The approach used as a military head of state can not be used as a democratic president.

He said the President's attitude was yet to change from that of 1984 when he was military Head of State, adding that; «Buhari's statement in Tehran, Iran that it was easier for him as a military Head of State in 1984 to arrest corrupt individuals and put them in protective custody was a pointer to the fact that he has not changed from the dictator that he was then.

Immediate past National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), has sworn that he never maltreated nor took part in maltreating President Muhammadu Buhari when he, as military head of state was removed in a coup in 1985 as being erroneously alleged.

Rawlings went on to rule as a military head of state from December 31, 1981 until 1992 when the PNDC metamorphosed into the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Under his tenure as military head of state, he changed the National Anthem, arguing that the new reflected Nigeria's African essence more than the old.

At this first coming in 1984, Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as military head of state, had to endure the head - splitting headache from the hangover of President Shehu Shagari's National Party of Nigeria (NPN) freeloaders, in Nigeria's Second Republic (1 October 1979 — 31 December 1983).

As chief of Army staff, he was military enforcer of Obasanjo's tenure as military head of state (1976 - 1979).

President Buhari, clearly with the most reasonable claim to decency in the public space, even after tenure as military head of state, is clearly last.

My admiration for him actually started when he was in office as military head of state, in the 1980s.

Not exact matches

What we in the West definitely don't know is the current location of Bo or Wang, what repercussions will be felt by Bo's powerful allies in politics, business and the military (the Financial Times reported May 14 that Bo's mentor and standing committee member Zhou Yongkang had been relieved of his duties as head of China's police, courts and spy apparatus), and who is going to lead China for the next 10 years, let alone what their policy leanings may be.

«There are lots of people who were as liberal as I was in the military, and like in the rest of America most folks in the military are probably less ideological than talking heads would ike to think they are.»

However, if both sides rely on military escalation and brinksmanship as their main negotiating tactic, the most likely result may be a head - on collision.

The world's largest «DDoS - as - a-Service» operation, webstressor.org, has been seized by the US military Defence Criminal Investigative Unit after a joint operation headed by the UK's National Crime Agency.

So long as there are American military operations in the middle east, many of the inhabitants of those countries will nod their heads in agreement.

At first intimidated and sent away by abusive military guards — who machine - gun the tabernacle — Romero soon returns to pick up the hosts scattered about the floor, as the soldiers fire over his head.

Partly as a result of the background racism that is embedded in many Americans» mental make - up and the propaganda of American imperialism that is drummed into recruits during military training, they do not see assaults on unarmed «rag heads» or «hajis» as murder.

In 1942 when I was ten and you were five, we got together Sundays as I'd head north to military school, flagging the Greyhound down.

Standing at attention in this situation (as opposed to bowing head in prayer) is absolutely respectful and appropriate, and your military leaders have ruled correctly on this one.

For those several people who asked, on air, whether the US had the advice of Muslim religious heads: there are Muslim chaplains aboard with all military groups just as there are Protestant and Catholic ministers, Jewish rabbis, etc..

This country has suffered greatly from scrotum heads in business, the military, and politics, and we are forced to watch them on television and in the movies as well.

Other Prime Ministerial powers include those to recommend the appointment of key figures, including peers, religious leaders, top judges and military heads as well as the chairs of public corporations such as the BBC.

The NRC later metamorphosed into the Supreme Military Council (SMC), but a palace coup saw General Acheampong being replaced by Lieutenant - General F.W.K. Akuffo in I978 as the Chairman of the SMC and Head of State of Ghana.

Omar appointed Akhundzada as the head of the military court in Kandahar during the Taliban's rule over Afghanistan.

However the bluff was called and British military support is off the table, a decision that General Salim Idris, the head of the Free Syrian Army, described as leaving «us alone to be killed».

He has now written Dragons 10 Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain (Head of Zeus # 30) in which he argues that Britain's rise to global dominance owed as much to the energy and creativity and ruthlessness of traders, industrialists and bankers, as it did to ministers, diplomats or military men.

Since Gen. Obasanjo first hit on Nigeria, as Civil War hero, Federal Works commissioner under Gen. Gowon, Gen. Murtala Muhammad's chief of staff, Supreme Headquarters, and later military Head of State, he had always projected public high - mindedness.

Everyone with a father or grandfather who was involved in D - Day, the greatest seaborne military operation of all time, will have fixed this extraordinary event in their heads as a critical part of the effort to defeat the evil of Nazi Germany.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

This is just as he charged the team to repeat the same feat they achieved when he was a military head of state tomorrow against Mali, to make it the fifth time Nigeria will win the trophy.

Flt Lt Rawlings also stated that he did not promote himself to a higher military rank during his tenure as Head of State because of his respect for the rank structure.

As warplanes head to Iraq, a period of non military - activity looks a long way off.

For the starry - eyed romantics thundering as if impunity and institutional subversion debuted with the military, Awo provided many examples of such in his book, The Travails of Democracy and the Rule of Law: CJN Adetokunbo Ademola letting off a cocktail jab at someone «who must oppose for opposing sake» (judiciary playing politics); PM Tafawa - Balewa who grumbled that Awo «called himself» Leader of Opposition (head of government subversive of the Constitution); and East Premier Michael Opara who snapped the Federal Government had powers to «abolish» misbehaving regional governments (executive outlawry against Nigerian federalism).

My tweet of Friday April 20, 2018 was typical of the reaction, «Actually Buhari was describing himself - he didn't get a good education and has no certificate; he's lived on the Nigerian state all his life; he doesn't like work; and he's fixated on Nigeria's oil...» In truth, Buhari has not presented evidence of completing secondary school - in all the elections he contested, including in 2015 he tendered affidavits to INEC and has declined to perform the simple task of providing his school certificate; since he joined the army in 1961, he has been a «ward» of the Nigerian state and served in multiple states as military governor, as Minister of Petroleum and Chairman of NNPC board under illegal military regimes; he was himself an unconstitutional military head of state; he was Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) under the despotic and thieving dictator, Abacha; and is now back as civilian president.

The President said he would not allow a repeat of what happened in the 1980s when buildings and other ill - gotten property seized by his military administration were returned to corrupt officials following his ouster as the Head of State.

A Long Island high school football player lifting a large log with teammates as part of a Navy SEALs - style drill was hit in the head by the log and died yesterday, raising questions about adapting such military training to young athletes.

I had expected to ask questions, but very characteristic of him, the former President decided to walk us through a lecture touching on his days as head of state (military and civilian), some of the difficult and sensitive decisions he took, his observations out of political office, Ghana's present political scene, the challenges confronting the Ghanaian media and finally the issue at stake.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday recalled his ouster as Nigeria's Military Head of State.

The former President said while he was in the military as Head of State and during the civil war, he did not gather many materials that could have been in the library.

He added that the claimed recovery of $ 85m as part of funds allegedly looted from the Malabu oil deal and conclusion of negotiation with Switzerland on the return of $ 321m recovered from the late Military Head of State, Gen. Muhammad Abacha family are a diversionary tactic.

Uche Secondus, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday met with former military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, famously known as IBB.