Sentences with phrase «military head»

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

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

Femi Falana, activist and human rights lawyer, has reacted to the alleged plan to arrest Kassim Afegbua, spokesperson of former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida by the Nigerian Police Force.

In February 1976, a certain Murtala Muhammad, then military head of state, was shot dead in cold blood, at Ikoyi, Lagos.

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.

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.

The Canadian military heads for the far North while Manitobans stare at a massive bill for flood cleanup.

That was aside from becoming accidental military head of state, after Murtala's assassination in 1976.

The North Tongu Member of Parliament is worried about the safety of Comrade Robert Mugabe and wants the African Union to take interest in how the 93 - year - old is treated by military heads who succeeded in mounting pressure on Mugabe to step down.

Reacting to the latest killings by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State, Fayose wondered why a retired Army General and one - time military Head of State who contested and won election on the premises of providing security to the citizens had suddenly become a lame duck.

After top military heads in the government have been assassinated armed mob rules the streets.

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.

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

His emergence came on the heels of the upheaval back then in the institution when the students rose against the then Military Head of State, Olusegun Obasanjo's regime in what has come to be known as Alimungo.

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.

The National Working Committee of Peoples Democratic party (PDP) on Monday met former military head of state, General Ibrahim Babagnida (retd).

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 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.

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.

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).

But I warned Nigerians, and I am still warning Nigerians now that as it happened in 1984 when our President was a military Head of State, the economy of Nigeria may collapse!

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.»

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.

A former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar yesterday shunned journalists and his supporters after meeting with a former military Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida in Mina,...

A former military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, has urged Nigerians to shun all forms of violence, criminal acts and behaviour capable of dividing the country.

Former military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, has expressed his support for the former Governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel as he seeks to become PDP National Chairman.

The Director of Human Resources, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Prof. Mansur Malumfashi, has criticised former President Olusegun Obasanjo and a former military Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida, for their recent open letters to President Muhammadu Buhari.

The edifice built before Independence in 1960 had housed several Presidents and Military Heads of State, before the relocation of the nation's capital to Abuja.

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.

I served under him as a military Head of State.

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

A former military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.)

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 -LSB-...]

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...

Also, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, former military head of state and chairman of the occasion, called for priority attention to be given to the health sector.

After much controversy, the former military Head of State disclosed that he authorised Afegbua to release the statement.

According to the organisation, the inability of the Federal Government under the former military Head of State to address grievances among different sections of the country has led to rising tension in the land.

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

On Buhari's rumoured bid in 2019, Bakare replied: «It's his fundamental constitutional right to run or not to run but whether it would now be accepted in the way it was accepted before... He came as military Head of State, he has come as civilian president, Jesus himself is only coming twice...»

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.