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Shagari who was educated at Kaduna college, was already well versed in the early independence movement in Southern Nigeria as an avid reader of southern newspapers.
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He was succeeded by the Chief of Staff, Supreme HQ Olusegun Obasanjo, who completed his plan of an orderly transfer to civilian rule by handing power to Shehu Shagari on October 1, 1979.
Shagari and was
* Shehu Shagari, President of Nigeria was placed under house arrest on December 31, 1983, following a military coup which ousted his government ( see: Nigerian Second Republic ).
The National Party of Nigeria emerged victorious in the presidential election and Alhaji Shehu Shagari was elected President.
Shehu Usman Shagari was born in Shagari village to the family of Magaji Aliyu and Mariamu in 1925.
Prior to becoming Magajin Shagari, Aliyu, Shehu's father was a farmer, trader and herder.
The village of Shagari was founded by Fulani Jihadist and cattlemen and later dominated by Hausa traders.
Shagari was taught recitals at home and later went to a Quranic school at the age of four.
There were few high level civil service professions open to indigenes in Northern Nigeria and coupled with the lack of a post-graduate school except the Yaba Higher college ; the teaching profession became the dominant career path early graduates of Kaduna college took and Shagari was no exception.
Before 1959, Shagari was elected to represent the constituency of Sokoto Southwest.
Within the conference, a national organization was formed among some members, the organization was called National Movement, it later metamorphosized to become the National Party of Nigeria and contested the 1979 election with Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari as its presidential candidate.
Gen Gowon was finally pardoned ( along with the ex-Biafran President, Emeka Ojukwu ) during the Second Republic under President Shehu Shagari.
In 1980, one of the policy thrusts in education of the civilian government headed by Alhaji Aliyu Shehu Shagari was the creation of new universities of technology.
Akinloye was the Chairman of the then largest political party in Africa, the National Party of Nigeria, which ruled the country between 1979 and 1983 while Shehu Shagari was President.
Shagari and at
Following the ouster of the civilian administration of Shehu Shagari at the end of 1983, he rose to become the Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters and defacto Vice President in the military administration of Muhammadu Buhari.
Shagari and movement
In 1970, as part of a movement to broaden the government, Yakubu Gowon made Shagari a minister of Economic affairs and later of Finance.
Shagari and Southern
In 1982, the Alhaji Shehu Shagari government urged the visiting Pontiff Pope John Paul II to grant audience to the leaders of Southern Africa guerrilla organisations Oliver Tambo of the ANC and Sam Nujoma of SWAPO.
Shagari and Nigeria
** Shehu Shagari, President of Nigeria from 1979 to 1983
After 13 years in exile, the Federal Government of Nigeria under President Shehu Aliyu Usman Shagari granted an official pardon to Odumegwu-Ojukwu and opened the road for a triumphant return in 1982.
Obasanjo served until 1 October 1979, when he handed power to Shehu Shagari, a democratically elected civilian president-hence becoming the first Military Head of state to transfer power peacefully to a civilian regime in Nigeria.
Shagari and .
The modern 419 scam became popular during the 1980s during the hyper-corrupt " Second Republic " governed by President Shehu Shagari.
Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, Turakin Sakkwato ( born February 25, 1925 ) served as the President of Nigeria's Second Republic ( 1979 – 1983 ), after the handover of power by General Olusegun Obasanjo's military government.
However, due to traditional rites that prevented rulers from participating in business, Aliyu relinquished some of his trading interest when he became the Magaji, or village head, of Shagari village.
Aliyu died five years after Shehu's birth, and Shehu's elder brother, Bello, briefly took on his father's mantle as Magajin Shagari.
However, Shagari gave the visiting bridal train a tauting look, after the visitors left, the bride sensing the atmosphere followed them briskly.
Shagari later married twice to Hadiza and Aishatu Shagari.
In 1946, Shagari and Mallam Gambo Abuja started the Youth Social Circle, a political organization centered around Sokoto.
Shagari later went on to hold the positions of minister of Economic Development in 1960, minister of Internal Affairs in 1962 and minister of Works and Survey in 1965.
Shagari returned to Sokoto to work on his farm and later to work as a councilor for the Sokoto Native Authority.
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He certainly didn't want a wife who was fickle as Ann.
He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
He was riding between two warriors, who held him erect when he started to slump.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.
Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.
Donna, his young wife, the girl who was both daughter and wife to him.
Lewis was a man who had made a full-time job of cow stealing.
He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.
But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.
Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!
Out in the center of the circle the farmer, who was Dan, wasted no time when they came to the line, `` The farmer choose his wife ''.
`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??
Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.
`` You know who the other man was ''??
Present at the scene -- in addition to the dead man, who was indeed Louis Thor -- had been Thor's partner Bill Blake, and Antony Rose, an advertising agency executive who handled the zing account.
My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.
I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.
If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.
The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.
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