Richdad50:
None of these young boys above me were not born at the time of Murtala Mohammed. Your mamas were still little and shy young girls at that time. Sic boys! Murtala was a good man and a beacon of hope for the country until his demise.

The death of Murtala as the beginning of Nigeria's downfall.

babaztee:
Those who removed History from Primary School curriculum are doing a great disservice to this country. I believe, some of the commentators here were not born when MM was the head of state and thus could not believe this assertion. The great danger to this nation is that, a larger percentage of the younger ones have lived to see Corruption and could not believe the life lived by people like Muritala Muhammed, Tunde Idiagbon, Aminu Kano, Tafawa Balewa, Azikiwe, Awolowo e.t.c

IdioticNLmods:
7000 naira then was like 10 million..
Next!

qualityovenbake:
He was a great man. It's been more than 25yrs I've been to the National Museum, I hope the Bullet Riddled Mercedes Benz Limosine of the his late father, Nigerian Head of State General Murtala Mohammed is still preserve properly.

EagleSquare1:
What can 10 million Naira do now for a Head of State?

9jaRealist:
Murtala Muhammed was in charge of the Communications Ministry...
When the FIRST major $billion corruption scandal erupted in Nigeria re the ITT contract.>

superlanny:
This are the real Patriots, who didn't consume the future of Nigerians"like Mr Ibu is doing below" Service to Motherland came first to them, But the Polithiefcians we have today, have found endless way to rape us mercilessly, Las Las We go dey Alrite

Richdad50:


None of these young boys above me were not born at the time of Murtala Mohammed. Your mamas were still little and shy young girls at that time. Sic boys! Murtala was a good man and a beacon of hope for the country until his demise.

The death of Murtala as the beginning of Nigeria's downfall.

Richdad

AreaFada2:
MM destroyed civil service in the name of fighting corruption.

He sacked people many of whom were trained abroad and began in colonial civil service. When civil servants were far more disciplined owing to training in colonial service. The ones that replaced them were far far worse. Our civil service never recovered from that mistake till today.

While his intention might have been good, he was too naive to throw the baby away with the bath water.

RIP to him.

Guyman02:
Have you apologized to Asaba and Anioma people on behalf of your father for the grievous massacre he inflicted on them during the civil war, it was part of the reasons for removing history from our school curriculum.

itsme01:




The Guy died cos of his simplicity,

The only Head of State both Military and Civilian that moves around lagos with just his military driver, no convoy no siren

The only Head of State both Military and Civilian that drop his status and imuinity to go to court to clear his name over corruption allegation

The same foolish coupist officers thought his 2ic (deputy) Ebora Owu General Obasanjo was that simple to catch but Baba Iyabo showed them otoromopkia

PS: N7000 NGN was around $5000 USD back then

with inflation adjustment he left less than 6 million naira

.

SmartMugu:
Civil war was during Gowon era, not Muritala. Learn History pls.

MoIbrahim:
A dollar was N0.75, meaning N7,000 was equal to $9,333.33. Convert back to naira using present exchange rate of one dollar to N360, it is equivalent to N3,360,000. By today's value a president was worth 3.37 million naira.

Compare with trillions owned by each of dem IBB, TY, Atiku, Obj and even Jona wey been no get shoe.

itsme01:




The Guy died cos of his simplicity,

The only Head of State both Military and Civilian that moves around lagos with just his military driver, no convoy no siren

The only Head of State both Military and Civilian that drop his status and imuinity to go to court to clear his name over corruption allegation

The same foolish coupist officers thought his 2ic (deputy) Ebora Owu General Obasanjo was that simple to catch but Baba Iyabo showed them otoromopkia

PS: N7000 NGN was around $5000 USD back then

with inflation adjustment he left less than 6 million naira

.

anonimi:


How much is pretentious barawo bubu worth- the man who sends his children to expensive secondary schools and university abroad, campaigned and went to the Supreme Court with SAN lawyers thrice with plenty mansions and plots of land that he does not even know their addresses?


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DeOTR:

N7000/$5000 in 1976 is way more than N6 million now.
Just think about what that amount would buy you at that time.

jantofubu:
How much was a naira to dollar then??


How much was the value of naira then vs now...

itsme01:


oga google the exchange rate then, and google the inflation rate

the fact that we have peagut plant working in kaduna then and people dont have to pay as high as $1000 to ship cars give that illusion that its more valueble..since we stopped producing many thing in the 90s from cloth to cars to iron and metal then we started paying higher due to import duty and shipping cost .. to an american $5000 USD adjusted with inflation isnt more than 10,000usd now

itsme01:




The Guy died cos of his simplicity,

The only Head of State both Military and Civilian that moves around lagos with just his military driver, no convoy no siren

The only Head of State both Military and Civilian that drop his status and imuinity to go to court to clear his name over corruption allegation

The same foolish coupist officers thought his 2ic (deputy) Ebora Owu General Obasanjo was that simple to catch but Baba Iyabo showed them otoromopkia

PS: N7000 NGN was around $5000 USD back then

with inflation adjustment he left less than 6 million naira

.

exminister:
7000 den is equal to 1billion today

jantofubu:
How much was a naira to dollar then??


How much was the value of naira then vs now...

sotall:
Hmm

N7000 at that time was big money

augustine:
N,7000,00 then can purchase two brand new 504 Peugeot cars from PAN factories. I know for sure, cos my dad bought some at that period.

quirus:
Mohammed's son should tell that to the marines. What about the money he stole and hid under Moshood Abiola? Or about the Benin CBN vault he and cohorts looted during the civil war.

His son has forgotten that many Nigerians are students of social history and not fools.