Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida is a retired Nigerian army general and politician. He served as military president of Nigeria from 1985 until his resignation in 1993. He rose through the ranks to serve from 1984 to 1985 as Chief of Army Staff;going on to orchestrate his seizure of power in a coup d'état against Muhammadu Buhari.
Adamawa state is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria,bordered by Borno to the northwest,Gombe to the west,and Taraba to the southwest,while its eastern border forms part of the national border with Cameroon. It takes its name from the historic emirate of Adamawa,with the emirate's old capital of Yola,serving as the capital city of Adamawa state. The state is one of the most heterogeneous in Nigeria,with over 100 indigenous ethnic groups,formed in 1991,when the former Gongola state was divided into Adamawa and Taraba states. Since it was carved out of the old Gongola State in 1991 by the General Ibrahim Badamsi Babangida military regime,Adamawa State has had 10 men,both military and civilian,controlling the levers of power,who played crucial roles in transforming the state into what it is today.
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(List) | leader_name = [[Mai Mala Buni] | leader_title1 = Deputy Governor | leader_name1 = Idi Barde Gubana (APC) | leader_title2 = Legislature | leader_name2 = Yobe State House of Assembly | leader_title3 = Senators | leader_name3 = C:Ibrahim Gaidam (APC)
N:Ahmed Lawan (APC)
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36th of 36 | demographics1_title3 = Per capita | demographics1_info3 = $1,797
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low ·35th of 37 | website = | footnotes =}}Yobe is a state located in northeastern Nigeria. A mainly agricultural state,it was created on 27 August 1991. Yobe State was carved out of Borno State. The capital of Yobe State is Damaturu,and its largest and most populated city is Potiskum.
Gbenga Daniel is a Nigerian politician who served as governor of Ogun State,Nigeria from 29 May 2003 to 29 May 2011.
Ọlagunsoye Oyinlọla is a retired Nigerian general,he became governor of Osun State,Nigeria in May 2003,and was reelected in 2007. He was a member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). On 26 November 2010 a court of appeals nullified his election. He later defected to the APC shortly before the 2014 Osun State governorship election. He was former military administrator of Lagos State.
Adamu Bello is a Nigerian politician who was Federal Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development from 2001 to 2007. He also headed the consolidated Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources from January to May 2007.
The Nigerian Military School Zaria,popularly known as (NMS),founded as the Boys-Company of Nigeria in 1954,was established under the auspices of Nigerian Regiment Training centre of the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF). The school was established along with three others in the British Colonial West Africa in Gambia,Gold Coast,and Sierra Leone. It was modeled after the Boys Wing of the British Army. The present day Military School came into being on May 20,1954. The Nigerian Military School (NMS) had a student battalion that consisted of 4 company in its early years:Alpha Company,Bravo Company,Charlie Company,&Delta Company. Three additional companies were added:Echo Company,Foxtrot Company,and Golf Company. The Boys Company as it used to be called was established as a full-fledged training institution under the regimentation and administration of the defunct Nigerian Regimental Training Centre (NRTC) now Depot NA.
Bamanga Tukur (CON) is a Nigerian businessman and politician who served as Minister for Industries in the administration of General Sani Abacha during the 1990s. He is one of the high-profile civil servants and military officers who acquired large areas of farmland along the various River Basin authorities. He is currently life patron of ABR. He was president of the Africa Business Roundtable in 2012. From March 2012 to January 2014,Tukur was National Chairman of the People's Democratic Party (PDP).
Sani Bello is a Nigerian statesman and military administrator who served as Governor of Kano State from 1975 to 1978. After his retirement,he amassed an enormous fortune through investments in oil,telecommunications and electricity;going on to establish the Sani Bello Foundation.
Maina Maaji Lawan is a Nigerian politician. He is a former governor and former senator for Borno State. A businessman,farmer and the CEO of Dansarki Farms.
Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia was a Nigerian army officer and politician. He was military Governor (1967–1975) of the Mid-West State,later renamed Bendel State,part of which in turn became Edo State After the return to democracy in 1999,he became a power in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In September 2009,Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state and others attended his 77th birthday celebration in Benin. He is noted as one of the founding fathers of the very prestigious University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH)
Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio,//(listen),is a Nigerian lawyer and politician. He is a former Minister for Niger Delta Affairs. He resigned on 11 May 2022 on the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari to contest in the presidential primaries of the All Progressives Congress. He also served as Governor of Akwa Ibom State,Nigeria from 29 May 2007 to 29 May 2015.
Abdullahi Shelleng was the first Military Governor of Benue State,Nigeria from 3 February 1976 to July 1978 during the military regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo,after Benue State had been split from the old Benue-Plateau State.
Mohammed Bello Kaliel was a Nigerian Army Colonel and the first Governor of Bauchi State,Nigeria after it was created on 3 February 1976 when North-Eastern State was divided into Bauchi,Borno,and Gongola states,during the military regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo. He held office until July 1978.
Adekunle Shamusideen LawalListen was a Nigerian Naval Admiral who served as military Governor of Lagos State from 1975 to 1977 and military Governor of Imo State from 1977 to 1978.
His Excellency Dauda Danladi,MNI is the former Nigerian Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (2012-2015) and was the authority in charge of the Nigerian Embassy in Islamabad,ICT.
Maxwell Mitikishe Khobe was a Nigerian army brigadier general who was the commander of the ECOMOG Peacekeeping Force in Sierra Leone from 1997 to 1998,and the Chief of the Defence Staff of Sierra Leone from 1998 to 2000.
Ahmed Tijjani Mora is a Nigerian pharmacist,academic,former Registrar and now Chairman of the Governing Council of Pharmacists Council of Nigeria. He is the National President,Ahmadu Bello University Alumni Association. He was elected President of the Alumni Association in August 2015 at the Annual General Assembly (AGA) of the association. The assembly was attended by delegates from over 25 States. Prior to his election,he was the substantive Deputy National president of the association.
Ibrahim Bata Malgwi Haruna is a retired officer of the Nigerian Army. He was a Federal Commissioner for Information and Culture between 1975 and 1977. He was also the Chairman,Executive Council,of Arewa Consultative Forum from 2009 to 2012. He holds the traditional title of Walin Garkida. He has notably been accused for ordering the Asaba Massacre,an atrocity committed during the Nigerian Civil War,but this is actually untrue;the massacre was ordered by Ibrahim Taiwo,as Haruna was not in command at that area. See Elizabeth Bird and Fraser Ottanell's "The Asaba Massacre:Trauma,memory,and the Nigerian civil war",pp. 77.
Ahmadu Bello UniversityZaria is a federal government research university in Zaria,Kaduna State,Nigeria,opened in 1962 as the University of Northern Nigeria. It was founded by and is now named for Ahmadu Bello,first premier of Northern Nigeria.
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