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Shehu Musa Yar'Adua

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regime. Operation Feed the Nation, known as OFN, was an initiative to boost local production of agricultural produce, especially staple crops such as rice and wheat, so as to improve self-sufficiency of food crops and reduce growing food deficits. Mechanisms used to promote the objective included the
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In January 1992, Yar'Adua spent a short stint in detention, jailed for contravening a law banning certain persons from active politics. However, the law was repealed and Yar'Adua subsequently announced his presidential election. His campaign political structure covered the country; he had a national
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However, by 1979 the policy had not achieved its primary goal of self-reliance and self-sufficiency. Yar'Adua also guided the Supreme Military Council's initiatives on local government reforms which led to the conduct of local government elections in 1976. The local government reforms excluded
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Yar'Adua attended Katsina Middle School and then Katsina Provincial School (now Government College, Katsina) for his secondary education; at the provincial school, where he was classmates with former Nigerian president
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After retiring from the military, Yar'Adua established a holding company called Hamada Holdings with several business interests in shipping, banking, publishing allowing him to amass a vast private fortune.
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traditional rulers from certain governance issues and limited their control over property rights. The reforms also granted recognition to local government as a third tier arm of government.
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distribution of heavily subsidized fertilizers and seeds to farmers, loans to small scale farmers to enable them to purchase equipment, and an educational outreach programme manned by
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when Nigeria was under military rule from 1976 to 1979. He was a prominent politician during the later transition from military to civilian rule in the late 1980s and into the 1990s.
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In 1965, Shehu Yar'adua married Hajia Binta and they have five children, including Murtala Yar'Adua, former Nigerian deputy minister for defence.
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campaign directorate, and each state had its own campaign coordinator and ward mobilizers. Members of his campaign group included former
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to a new National Constitutional Conference. He was an outspoken delegate and in early 1994 organized a political conference at the
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in 1962 as part of the course 5 intake of the Nigerian military training school. Yar'Adua was selected for further training at the
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and others were arrested on allegations of plotting a coup to overthrow the General Sani Abacha regime. He was sentenced to
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E.O. Arua. "Achieving food sufficiency in Nigeria through the operation 'feed the nation' programme".
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as Nigeria's Head of State. After the success of the coup, he served as Transport Minister in General
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In 1964, after he returned from Sandhurst, Yar'Adua was posted to the first infantry battalion of the
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rule. The sentence was commuted to life in prison but he died in captivity on 8 December 1997.
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that earned the attention of the military leadership who detained him for four days.
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which lasted from 1979 to 1983. The triumvirate later retired from the military.
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Yar'Adua and his group formed the People's Front of Nigeria; Members included
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started his political transition program in 1987 with the establishment of a
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title of Tafidan Katsina before he was appointed to the title of Mutawallin
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In 1979, the regime transferred power to the civilian elected government of
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Transition without End: Nigerian Politics and Civil Society under Babangida
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Affairs from 1957 to 1966 during Nigeria's First Republic and held the
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Nigeria at Fifty: Contributions to Peace, Democracy & Development
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to teach peasant farmers how to use modern agricultural equipment.
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by a military tribunal in 1995, after calling on the Nigerian
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The People's Front later merged with other groups to form the
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His office was assigned the task of managing operations of
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after two unsuccessful attempts by the Nigerian troops.
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Neither North nor South, East nor West: One Nigeria
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Strategic Insight Publishing. p. 30. 27:Nigerian general and politician (1943–1997) 1324: 1310: 1302: 797:In March 1995, General Yar'Adua alongside 765:In 1994, Yar'Adua won a seat representing 52: 31: 937:. The Punch. January 2015. Archived from 486:, Yar'Adua took the entrance exam of the 1167:Marcus G. Ajibade. Shehu Musa Yar'adua: 858:Nigerian Politics in the Age of Yar'Adua 847: 1251:Shehu Musa Yar'Adua: A Life of Service 961:Shehu Musa Yar'Adua: a life of service 959:Farris, J. W, & Bomoi, M. (2004). 490:. He passed and was enlisted into the 1004:. Europa Publications. p. 1851. 7: 1489:20th-century Nigerian businesspeople 569:Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters 413:Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters 67:Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters 1071:yar'adua operation feed the nation. 793:Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Centre in Abuja 589:, Shehu Yar'Adua as Chief of Staff 1189:. 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Index

Shehu Yar'Adua
Major General
GCON

Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters
Olusegun Obasanjo
Alex Ekwueme
Vice President of Nigeria
Katsina
Northern Region
British Nigeria
Katsina State
Abakaliki
Ebonyi State
Social Democratic Party
Umaru Yar'Adua
Abdulaziz Musa Yar'Adua
Musa Yar'Adua
Alma mater
Nigerian Military Training College
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Nigeria

Nigerian Army

Major general
Nigerian Civil War
GCON
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vice president of Nigeria

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