Sani Abacha was a Nigerian general who ruled as the military head of state of Nigeria from 1993 until his death in 1998. He seized power on 17 November 1993 in the last successful coup d'etat in the military history of Nigeria. He was the Chief of Army Staff between 1985 to 1990;Chief of Defence Staff between 1990 to 1993;and Minister of Defence. Abacha became the first Nigerian Army officer to attain the rank of a full military general without skipping a single rank.
Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari,titled Turakin Sokoto from 1962,was the first democratically elected President of Nigeria,after the transfer of power by military head of state General Olusegun Obasanjo in 1979 giving rise to the Second Nigerian Republic.
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 palace coup d'ètat against Muhammadu Buhari.
Katsina State is a state in the northwestern geopolitical zone of Nigeria. Katsina State was created in 1987,when it split from Kaduna State. Today,Katsina State borders Kaduna,Zamfara,Kano,and Jigawa States. Nicknamed the "Home of Hospitality",both the state capital and the town of Daura have been described "ancient seats of Islamic culture and learning" in Nigeria.
Mohammed Danjuma Goje was a former Governor of Gombe State,Nigeria under the platform of the People's Democratic Party (PDP),taking office on 29 May 2003 during the 2003 Gombe State gubernatorial election. He is now a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Gusau Dam holds a reservoir on the Sokoto River just upstream from Gusau,capital of Zamfara State in Nigeria. It supplies water to the city and neighboring communities. In 2006,the dam collapsed,killing 40 people and destroying 500 homes.
Mohammed Magoro is a retired Major General of the Nigerian army who was twice a government minister,under Generals Obasanjo and Buhari. In the April 2011 elections he was elected Senator for the Kebbi South constituency of Kebbi State,Nigeria.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 2006 to Nigeria and its people. See also Timeline of Nigerian history
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.
Ibrahim Taiwo was a Military Governor of Kwara State from July 1975 to February 1976 during the military regime of General Murtala Mohammed. He assisted in establishment of the University of Ilorin,which was founded by decree August,1975.
Malam Yahaya Abdulkarim was elected governor of Sokoto State,Nigeria between January 1992 and November 1993,during General Ibrahim Babangida's attempted transition to democracy. After the return to democracy in 1999,he became a power in the Zamfara State branch of the People's Democratic Party (PDP),and served for a while in the cabinet of president Olusegun Obasanjo.
Garba Duba is a retired Nigerian Army Lieutenant General who was Governor of Bauchi State,Nigeria from July 1978 to October 1979 during the military regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo,and Administrator of Sokoto State from January 1984 to August 1985 during the military regime of Major General Muhammadu Buhari.
Mohammed Sani Sami was Governor of Bauchi State,Nigeria from January 1984 to August 1985 during the military regime of Major General Muhammadu Buhari.
Aliyu Mohammed Gusau is a Nigerian general and statesman. He has held several high level national security,military and intelligence offices,and has participated in several military coups,playing a central role in founding the Fourth Nigerian Republic.
Haliru Mohammed Bello is a Nigerian politician. He was trained in veterinary medicine. He held various administrative positions under the military governments before 1999. He was Minister of Communications from June 2001 to May 2003. After he left office,he was indicted in a bribery scandal involving the German telecom company Siemens AG.
Barrister Mukhtar Shehu Shagari,CFR was appointed Nigerian Minister of Water Resources in a June 2001 reshuffle of the cabinet of President Olusegun Obasanjo. He was later appointed President of the African Ministers Council On Water (AMCOW). Shagari held office until January 2007 when he left to compete for Deputy Governor of Sokoto State. He was elected Deputy Governor of Sokoto State in April 2007,and after a legal challenge was reelected in May 2008.
Colonel Anthony Aboki Ochefu was a Military Governor of East Central State from July 1975 to February 1976 during the military regime of General Murtala Mohammed.
The Nigerian military coup of 1983 took place on 31 December that year. It was coordinated by key officers of the Nigerian military and led to the ousting of the democratically elected government of President Shehu Shagari and the installation of Major General Muhammadu Buhari as head of state.
Bello Muhammad,known as Bello Matawalle,is a Nigerian politician and teacher who has served as the Governor of Zamfara State since 2019. After briefly serving in the Abacha-era state house of assembly and serving as a state commissioner from 1999 to 2003 in the Ahmad Sani Yerima administration in the Fourth Republic,he first won a elected office in 2003 as a member of the House of Representatives for Bakura/Maradun and retained the office until 2015—first as a member of the All Nigeria Peoples Party before switching to the People's Democratic Party in 2011. Four years after losing his Bakura/Maradun Constituency seat in 2015,Matawalle became the 2019 PDP gubernatorial nominee and won the office after a Supreme Court ruling disqualified the original winner. In 2021,he defected from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress after a defection rally in Gusau alongside most Zamfara State elected officials.
The 2023 Zamfara State gubernatorial election will take place on 11 March 2023,to elect the Governor of Zamfara State,concurrent with elections to the Zamfara State House of Assembly as well as twenty-seven other gubernatorial elections and elections to all other state houses of assembly. The election will be held two weeks after the presidential election and National Assembly elections. Incumbent APC Governor Bello Matawalle has been renominated by his party.
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