Here is rending report about Sir Ahmadu Bello who was born on the 12th of June 1910 and died
on January 15, 1966. He was a Nigerian politician who
was the first and only premier of the Northern Nigeria
region. He also held the title of Sardauna of Sokoto.
He was also a leader of the defunct Northern
People’s Congress. According to HistoryVille, here are 50 things you didn’t know about the late
Nigerian politician

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1. Ahmadu Bello was born on June 12, 1909 in Rabbah,
present day, Sokoto State.
2. He was the son of a concubine. 3. His father died when he was 6 years old.
4. He was the only surviving son of his father and
mother, Mariyamu.
5. He was a great grand-son of Shehu Uthman dan
Fodio, the great Fulani jihadist.
6. He got his Islamic and Arabic education as a teenager from Mallam Garba who was the Imam of
Rabbah village.
7. He finished at the age of 16 top of his class.
8. He attended the Teacher’s Training College,
Katsina (later Barewa College) where he was a School
Prefect and Class Captain. 9. Thereafter, he graduated as a Teacher in 1931 with
a credit equivalent Grade III result.
10. He was appointed by the Sultan of Sokoto to work
as a teacher at the Sokoto Middle School, where he
was once a student and taught from 1931-1934.
11. He was appointed a rural administrator (District Head) at the age 25 in 1934.
12. He gave birth to a daughter after his death
(posthumously).
13. He became a candidate for the succession to the
throne of the Sultan of Sokoto at the age of 29. 14. He made attempts to become the Sultan of Sokoto
but was not successful, losing to Sir Siddiq Abubakar
III who reigned for 50 years until his death in 1988.
15. The new Sultan immediately made Sir Ahmadu
Bello the Sardauna (Warlord) of Sokoto, a honourary
title and promoted him to the Sokoto Native Authority Council, these titles automatically made him the Chief
Political Adviser to the Sultan.
16. Later, he was put in charge of the Sokoto Province
to oversee 47 districts.
17. In 1943, a drama played out when he was thrown
before the Sultan’s court for misappropriating jangali (cattle) tax for the Gusau region where he was
the Councillor.
18. He was sentenced to 1 year in prison, but spent 3
months in jail.
19. By 1944, he was back at the Sultan’s Palace to
work as the Chief Secretary of the State Native Administration.
20. In 1949, at the age of 40, he was nominated for a
seat in the Regional House of Assembly.

21. He spoke impeccable English, and respected many
European values.
22. Sir Ahmadu Bello keenly encouraged female education.
23. In 1954, Sir Ahmadu Bello became the first
Premier of Northern Nigeria.
24. He never had material accumulation instincts, did
not accumulate wealth and gave out whatever came
into his possession. He was scrupulous and prudent with public finance but generous with his own money.
25. In 1955, he made his first pilgrimage to Mecca,
Saudi Arabia.
26. The ‘Work and Worship’ motto on the Northern
Nigerian crest was adopted by him.
27. He chose to remain the Premier of Northern Nigeria and gave the position of Prime Minister to his
hand-picked candidate, the late Sir Abubakar Tafawa
Balewa, who was then the Deputy President of the
NPC.
28. Sir Ahmadu Bello never sought the leadership of
Nigeria. 29. He once stated that he would rather be the Sultan
of Sokoto than to be the leader of Nigeria.
30. At various times, he made inflammatory
statements about the Ibos as he once referred to
them as the ‘Jews of Nigeria’ whose sole purpose
is to dominate wherever they find themselves. 31. In 1959, Queen Elizabeth II (b.1926) made him a
Knight of the British Empire (KBE), and that explains
the ‘Sir’ in his title.
32. In 1962, he became Pioneer Chancellor, Ahmadu
Bello University, ABU, Zaria.
33. He founded the Bank of the North (now Unity Bank) .
34. He founded the Northern Nigerian Development
Company.
35. He established the 16,000-seater Ahmadu Bello
Stadium, Kaduna.
36. He established the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna (the only military university in Nigeria)
37. He established the University of Northern Nigeria,
which stretched from Samaru in Kaduna State to
Funtua in Katsina State, on the 4th of October, 1962
now known as Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria.
38. By the beginning of 1966, it was quite clear that the Sardauna was one of the most powerful figures in
the country, and many believed that he was actually
the most powerful, even much more powerful than
the Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.
39. His party, Northern People Congress (NPC), held
sway over 29 million out of 55 million Nigerians. 40. On his way to Umrah (the Muslim lesser
pilgrimage), he received a letter with threats to kill
him.

41. The letter was said to have stated: “We have
arranged to kill you and the Prime Minister (Alhaji
Tafawa Balewa).” 42. As a devout Muslim, the Sardauna believed that
giving his life in the service of Northern Nigeria was
worth the sacrifice and that death was a certain end.
43. He later said of the threat: “Don’t worry,
continue to get useful information. I know what to
do.” 44. On the morning of 15th January, 1966, armed
soldiers, led by Major Patrick Chukwuma Kaduna
Nzeogwu, arrived at his residence at Lugard House,
Kaduna, with the message of death.
45. He told his family to stay away in safety but they
would have none of that. They all trooped behind him as he came out of the family quarters and in a matter
of seconds, he was surrounded by the soldiers led by
Nzeogwu who fired at his babanriga. And
immediately, blood sputtered from the point of impact
through the beard on his face.
46. At that point, his first and eldest wife, Hafsatu, threw herself at him in a final embrace. They were
both shot.
47. He was believed to have been killed instantly
when a bullet penetrated his spinal cord.
48. Brave till the very end, he had faced the soldiers
and introduced himself as the Sardauna of Sokoto and Premier of the Northern Region.
49. He once referred to Nigeria as the ‘mistake of
1914′ but he later worked for and gave his best for
the new nation of Nigeria.
50. He died leaving £10 in his bank account. Equivalent
of 5,000 naira in today’s currency exchange.

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that was then..wen we av leaders who care fr the people nd also care fr the nation inrespective of ethnic nd religion background

He was also a tribalist and one of the people who laid the foundation for the problems we are encountering today.

Pigs and idiots were around that time Kwa? They obviously are the ancestors of rapist Cownu who bequeathed to him a foul demon.