Sentences with phrase «former civilian president»
Also absent at today's meeting are former civilian president Alhaji Shehu Sagari and General Ibrahim Babangida.
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On Feb. 16, 2011, Buffett was awarded the highest civilian honor, the «Presidential Medal of Freedom,» by former President Barack Obama.
Howard Schultz, Starbucks chairman and CEO, Robert Gates, Former Defense Secretary, and Dr. JD Crouch II, USO president and CEO, come together to discuss bridging the military — civilian drift at the Starbucks hosted Muster.
Regular attacks on civilians last month throughout this Beni - Butembo route have been said to be the activity of bandits placed there by Mbusa Nyamwisi, a local politician (also former warlord) running for the post of president.
«I'm happy he's moved on with his career,» Roy Richter, president of the Captains Endowment Association, said of former Civilian Complaint Review Board Chairman Richard Emery.
Former President JJ Rawlings described the ghastly murder of a service man by civilians in Denkyira - Obuasi as «an act of cruelty.»
Buhari, a former military general, had on May 29, 2015, while being inaugurated as civilian president after defeating Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party promised to carry all sections of the country along in his administration by saying «I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody».
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.
Former President George W. Bush, in an interview, said Obama has a «touch choice to make» on potential U.S. military action against Syrian President Bashar al - Assad, who is accused of using chemical weapons against civilians.