Sentences with phrase «first 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.

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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).

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.

The message from Berlin seemed more or less routine to Peis, and he at first treated it as such until early in the morning of the eighth when Gauleiter Karl - Heinz Schroeder — in a state somewhere between chagrin and panic — burst into Peis's sleeping quarters (Peis was not in fact asleep) and pointedly reminded him that not only had Speer taken the place of Dr. Fritz Todt as head of the Todt Organization — in charge of all industrial production, military and civilian — which made him one of the most powerful men in Germany, but that he was a personal friend, perhaps the closest personal friend — of the Führer himself.