Sentences with phrase «military head of state when»

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

The governor, who likened the militarization of Nigeria, being witnessed now to 1984 when President Muhammadu Buhari was military Head of State, said «killing unarmed Nigerians in the Southeast or anywhere in the country, just because some people are agitating is wrong and I wonder why none of our so called human rights activists is talking now.

He said; «food scarcity last experienced when Buhari was military Head of State between 1983 and 1985 has returned to the country, with Nigerians being unable to feed.»

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).

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.

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.

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.

Responding, President Buhari recalled that Nigeria first won the Under - 17 World Cup in 1985 in China, when he was military head of state.

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

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.

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.

Scarcity of food last experienced when President Buhari was Military Head of State between 1983 and 1985 has returned to the country, with Nigerians going to bed daily on empty stomach.

For some of us, the man Buhari is a conviction, a resolution, a man to admire and adore since 1984, when he became military head of state.

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

Femi Fani - Kayode, former Aviation Minister, has revealed that former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon and late military officer, Captain S.G. Tokida saved his father's life on the night of Jan 15th, 1996 when the junior officers» coup took place in Nigeria.

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.

The win was significant because the country won the laurel 30 years ago when the current civilian president, Muhammadu Buhari was also the Head of state of a military junta.

When General Muhammadu Buhari became Nigeria's military head of state on December 31, 1983, I was a third - year law undergraduate of the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University.

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.