Sentences with phrase «military head of»

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.

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.

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.

Former military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd), on Tuesday disclosed why he visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

A video has surfaced online showing former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, ex - Military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon among other leaders singing for a greater and peaceful...

Former Military Head of state, General Yakubu Gowon (Retd), has reacted to the controversy generated by the alleged padding of the 2016 budget.

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.

Meanwhile, 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.

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.

However, victory was annulled by the then military head of state, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida.

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.

A former Military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently address the economic and other problems ravaging Nigeria.

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 Turaki Vanguard, an independent group pushing for the presidency of former Vice President, Atiku Abubarkar has alleged that the former Military Head of State was been sponsored by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP because it knows he will fail again.

God has been very good to President Buhari; he was a Petroleum Minister, military Head of State and now he's the incumbent President.

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

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

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.

Former Military Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, has revealed how the late Maitama Sule submitted himself for arrest after the 1983 coup.

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.

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.

Former Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) has disclosed how lies by late warlord, Odumegu Ojukwu after the Aburi accord led to Biafra civil...

Former presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, has spoken on the controversy surrounding the statement credited to former military head of state, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) against President...

The former Minister stated this while disagreeing with the stance of former military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon that impeaching Buhari would lead to another civil war.

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...

That brings the discourse to former President Obasanjo, but before then a military head of state, like IBB and Abubakar.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

Been a former military head of state and a converted democratic president, with outstanding records of service, particularly in the fight against corruption, more and more Nigerians believed the task of rebuilding Nigeria, speedily is possible with Muhammadu Buhari.

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

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

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).

(Acheampong was the military Head of State at the time).

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,...

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.

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.

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.»

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).