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If you thought you knew everything about the General Muhammad Buhari, the APC presidential candidate, we have some shockers for you:

1 General Muhammad Buhari was born in Katsina State as the twenty-third child of his father who died when the General was quite young. He was raised mostly by his mother.

2 He has run unsuccessfully for president of Nigeria three times. 2015 is his fourth attempt at ascending the throne.

3 He is father to ten children, two of whom are deceased.

4 He divorced his first wife, late Hajiya Safinatu for reportedly receiving financial assistance from IBB while he was in prison.

5 In March 1976, the then Head of State, General Olusegun Obasanjo appointed Buhari as the Federal Commissioner (position now called Minister) for Petroleum and Natural Resources.

6 In 1983, when Chadian forces invaded Nigeria in the Borno State, Buhari used the forces under his command to chase them out of the country, crossing into Chadian territory in spite of an order given by then President Shagari to withdraw. This 1983 Chadian military affair led to more than 100 victims and “prisoners of war”. The General does not play apparently.

7 Major-General Buhari was one of the leaders of the military coup of 1983 that overthrew the democratically elected government of President Shehu Shagari.

8 One of the most enduring legacy of the Buhari government has been the War Against Indiscipline (WAI). Launched on March 20, 1984, the policy tried to address the perceived lack of public morality and civic responsibility of Nigerian society.

9 After Buhari’s government was overthrown by Babangida in 1984, he was imprisoned till 1988 in Benin City.

10 He recently survived an apparent Boko Haram assassination attempt Kaduna.


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The presidential candidate of the APC, Gen Muhammadu Buhari says he will ban the importation of commodities such as rice and tomatoes that can be produced in Nigeria if elected. Buhari said this while speaking to members of the organized private sector in Lagos yesterday February 2nd

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Billionaire businessman, the Asoju Oba of Lagos, Babasuwa of Ijebu-Remo, Odofin of Ife, the current Chancellor of Lagos State University and chairman of CFAO Nigeria Limited, Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas has died.
He died today February 2nd. He was 79. Details as to what caused his death hasn’t been made public yet. May his soul rest in peace. Amen.

http://www.premiumgist.com/lagos-state-university-chancellor-chief-molade-okoya-thomas-dead/

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