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| A Brief History Of President Buharis Life As He Celebrates 77 Today. by ColonelEmeka: 11:51am On Dec 17, 2019 |
Let me add a small thread with things you probably didn’t know about Mr President at 77 1) He was born on December 17, 1942, in Daura (in present-day Katsina State) – the 13th and last child of a Hausa mother, and the 23rd and last child of a Fulani father. 2) He also has Kanuri roots; one of his maternal great-grandfathers was from the old Borno Empire. 3) He lost his father at the age of 4, and was raised by his mother, who died in 1988. 4) As a schoolboy he was a long distance runner (800m), footballer, and hockey player. Early in his military career his hobbies once included ballroom dancing. 5) He was the sole Northern Region beneficiary of a West African Schools Summer Holiday Trip organised by the Elder Dempster Shipping Line in 1961. 6) He was Head Boy of the Katsina Provincial Secondary School (now Government College, Katsina) in 1961 7) He is a member of Course 5 of the Nigerian Military Training College, NMTC (now the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA), enlisting on the 9th of April, 1962. His military education took place in Nigeria, the UK, India and the United States. 8 ) He is one of a handful of Nigerian military officers who served in all 4 Army Divisions that existed while he was in service, & commanded 3 of the 4. He was at various times the GOC 4th Infantry Division, GOC 2nd Mechanised Infantry Division & GOC 3rd Armoured Division. 9) He was the first Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the first and only Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF). 10 ) He was awarded the national honour of Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR) in 1979, at the age of 37 11) In April 1983, as GOC, 3rd Armoured Division in Jos, he led a military operation that recovered all the 19 Nigerian Islands seized by Chadian troops, around the Lake Chad. (He took back an extra Island, making 20 in all). 12) He is one of only two Nigerian military leaders to not promote selves while in office (He promoted his deputy to the same rank of Major General as himself). 13) He is one of only two Nigerians to rule Nigeria twice; first as a military officer and then as a democratically-elected President. 14) He spent 40 months (between August 1985 and December 1988) under house arrest, following the military coup that overthrew him. He spent most of the house arrest in a bungalow in Benin City 15) He is the first Nigerian opposition candidate to defeat a sitting President in an election, and the third elected Nigerian President to win a second term in office. 16) He is the first and so far the only Nigerian to run in five consecutive Presidential elections: 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019 (winning in 2015 and 2019) GOD BLESS MAJOR GENERAL DICTATOR MUHAMMADU BUHARI THIS DAY AS HE CELEBRATES HIS 77TH BIRTHDAY. MAY NIGERIA BECOME GREATER UNDER YOU IN JESUS NAME. AMEN Mynd44, Lalasticlala
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| Re: A Brief History Of President Buharis Life As He Celebrates 77 Today. by slimfit1(m): 11:55am On Dec 17, 2019 |
Enjoy it while it last there might not be another. |
| Re: A Brief History Of President Buharis Life As He Celebrates 77 Today. by dukeprince50: 11:57am On Dec 17, 2019 |
Gbamsolutely |
| Re: A Brief History Of President Buharis Life As He Celebrates 77 Today. by opportunes: 11:58am On Dec 17, 2019 |
Happy birthday |
| Re: A Brief History Of President Buharis Life As He Celebrates 77 Today. by ColonelEmeka: 12:01pm On Dec 17, 2019 |
slimfit1: He is 77 already and is not expecting another opportunity. |
| Re: A Brief History Of President Buharis Life As He Celebrates 77 Today. by Kestolove(m): 12:08pm On Dec 17, 2019 |
He has paid his dues, let him enjoy |
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