Sentences with phrase «then military head of state»

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

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

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Among the many scheduled American participants were the political advisor to the head of the U.S. Northern Command, the president for the Americas of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the senior director for the Western Hemisphere of the American National Security Council, the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Carla Hills (who was the primary U.S. NAFTA negotiator), the senior United States Air Force military assistant to the then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from Mexico.

And then, by the time I became head of state, because I went to War College in the United States before the military handed over to the Second Republic and came back in 1980 and then, there was coup at the end of 1983.

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.

President Donald Trump this morning meets with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in the Oval Office, then heads to the Pentagon to meet with senior military leadership.

After the first military coup of 1966 and under the short - lived administration of the then Head of State General Aguiyi Ironsi, Decree 34 of 1966 was promulgated abrogating the federal system of government and substituting same with unitary system of government.

The thirty minute drive down to the coast was spectacular with awesome views over the mountainous terrain running directly into the Adriatic Sea at Mlini some seven miles along the coast east of Dubrovnik countryside Where Marshal Tito, the longtime erstwhile head of state of what was then Yugoslavia, now Croatia, built himself a truly magnificent villa on a headland within the midst of a military camp together with a naval facility close by at Kupari within a mile of this villa.

Approx 6 hours Heading south from Tongariro National Park on SH4 past the Makatote viaduct and then SH49, there's a picnic opportunity in the Karioi State Forest before Waiouru which is in the heart of army territory — if the military is of interest, the museum is worth a visit.