leshluap:



so shall it be in Jesus name. omokelekele.

Leshua, omo Owoyemi...amin!!

siraj1402:
My advice to the government of GMB is to focus more on agriculture as an alternative to oil so as to be the real good people with great nation.

Can you or anyone else tell us how Buhari focused moe on agriculture as military ruler for two years (1983-1985).

What we remember is that he flooded our market with IMPORTED rice, milk, sugar, vegetable oil, salt etc that were called essential commodities or "Essenco" at ARTIFICIALLY cheap prices that were UNSUSTAINABLE through the Nigerian National Supply Company (NNSC).
This accelerated the death of farmers and agro-allied processing industries
That his is economic management record.

Majority of the comments on this thread make me weep.
The level of ignorance that exists in the minds of Nigerian youths is very high. Believe it or not, agriculture without industralisation is useless. Agriculture is not the major revenue earner of the top economies in the world, I wonder if anyone of you ever read!! Gosh!

DjAndroid:
The pyramids are coming back again. GEJ's agric reforms seem to be making sense.

photoshop .........cheap lie jona jona

So Buhari say him go dey give men dem 5k every month to sustain? Na Buhari sure pass nii yen

Buhari 1975
BUHARI EXPOSED ■ His education, life and career
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By Our Reporter on January 10, 2015 COVER

■ APC presidential candidate’s life, education, career, and vintage pictures

BY LAWRENCE ENYIOGHASU

Well, not exactly the untold story of former military head of state and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). It is more like Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘unknown’ story, as not many Nigerians are familiar with the book written by Rosaline Odeh, the then Head of Research and Documentation Section, Federal Department of Information, in May 1984.

The book, Muhammadu Buhari: Nigeria’s Seventh Head of State, was published by the Federal Department of Information, Domestic Publicity Division, Ikoyi Road, Lagos. It is in seven chapters of 95 pages, and details the early life, educational qualifications, career, and thoughts of the then head of state.

Chapter 1 is on parentage and background of the Daura, Katsina State-born retired military officer and politician. He was the 13th and last child of his mother, and also the last of his father’s 23 children.

Gen. Buhari’s father was Hardo Adamu, a Fulani chief of Dumukorl, a village near Daura. He, however, died when the young Muhammadu was just four years old. All he can remember of him is that “he was tall and fair in complexion.” The young boy ended being brought up by his mother, Hajia Zulaihalu Musa, who had great influence on him.

Chapter 2 is on Buhari’s childhood and early education. This is the portion that, perhaps, unravels the current raging debate on his academic credentials.

At the age of six, the book says, General Buhari was enrolled at the Central Primary School, Daura. His nephew, Mamman, who is two and a half years older, says of the young pupil: “He was above average academically and more than usual naughty.” Buhari himself corroborated: “I was a truant in primary school. I spent a lot of my time playing around. But when I went to secondary school, I changed.”

Classmates at Daura Primary School remember Buhari as a fast runner and centre forward for the school football team. He was always neatly dressed. He was to finish primary education in 1955 at Kankia Primary School.

In 1956, he proceeded to the Katsina Provisional Secondary School (now Government College, Katsina. According to his schoolmates, he had then become “a serious and hardworking student who tried to excel in everything he did.” Deeply religious, he said his prayers regularly, and was among those who made prayer calls at 4:30a.m.

Who were some of Buhari’s classmates, and what did they say of him?

General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua (now deceased): “He worked fairly hard at his studies and games. He was reserved. He was one of the few boys in the school trusted by his classmates, and was quite dependable.”

Alhaji Fathu Abdullahi: He made a lot of friends from outside his Daura group. He was very broadminded. Very serious for his age and had no time for frivolous talks. He was very religious, even at the age of 12.”

Mallam Muktari, Zango: “He used to baffle me. He was so strong-willed and principled. He always stood his ground and did not follow the crowd.”

Buhari was a school monitor in Class 2, later a school prefect, a house captain, and ultimately he was made the head boy of the school.

According to the book, of all the boys who applied to join the Army from Katsina Secondary School, only two were taken. Muhammadu Buhari and Shehu Yar’Adua. They both ended up as Generals.

Chapter 3 is on Buhari’s military career, which he started at Nigerian Military Training College, Katsina, in 1962. He then went to the Young Officers Course No. 5 at the Nigerian Military Training College, Kaduna, from May 1963 to July 1963, Mons Officers Cadet School, Aldershot, in the United Kingdom, and he was commissioned in the rank of Second Lieutenant and posted to 2nd Infantry Battalion in Abeokuta as a Platoon Commander.

What are some of the other courses Buhari attended? According to the book, he was at the Army Mechanical Transport Officer’s Course in Bordon, United Kingdom from May 1965 to June of the same year, Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, India, from January to November 1973, and Army War College, U.S.A, from July 1979 to July 1980.

During the Nigerian Civil War, he was the Brigade Major of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, and Commander, 31st Infantry Brigade.

Chapter 4 is titled ‘Food for Thought,’ and it chronicles Gen Buhari’s views on different national and international issues. It also dwells on his private life and family

‘Landmarks Along the Way’ is the title of Chapter 5. It details Buhari’s footprints on the sands of time: as governor, minister, a member of the Supreme Military Council (SMC), General Officer Commanding (GOC), and call to duty as head of state.

Chapter 6 is on ‘A Journey Into the Past.’ What are readers served here? The influences on Buhari’s early life that made him what he became, particularly as a modest, self-effacing man. Hear his comment on leadership: “If there is anything we need in this country, it is leadership, and I also think, if there is anything we have in this country, they are good soldiers. If you stay with your men, and train with them, they will follow you. Much will be accomplished. If you stay with them and train with them, they will do anything.”

And his philosophy? “You will never succeed if you are unjust to your people.”

The final chapter: ‘Moment of Decision.’ Here, readers will get the appraisal and comments of people on Buhari. They include Dr Onolapo Soleye, his Minister of Finance, the Emir of Daura, Gen Musa Yar’Adua, Alhaji Mamman Daura, Gen Martin Adamu, and many others. Adamu, who was Buhari’s Commander during the civil war, said: “I am saying with all sense of responsibility. I don’t think he is an ambitious man. He feels strongly about Nigeria as a country. Given the support of the Armed Forces and the public, there is no reason he should not succeed. This time is the last chance for Nigeria’s survival and territorial integrity. I believe everything he said in his first speech.”

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These Pyramids have been replaced with improvised Explosive Devices and delivered to Women, Children and innocent civilians up North..

MurdaForker:
Things. Like this shows we need more of GMB than someone who spent 6yrs and Nothing to show for it..

I still can't believe okonjo Iweala said it may take few months before auditors can explain how missing 10.8billion strolled out of wherever they put it.

Really

I agree that we need another set of people in aso rock to do things differently, but on agric apc has not shown much interest in agriculture since.

They might still not interested in agric when in power.

Kenai:


It's true. The picture is retouched.
The unnaturally deep blue sky is possibly a stock photo.

thank you, was it not better to leave the sacks as they were Would anybody cut their necks The amount of sacks there is considerably plenty,but trying to manipulate the figure through photoshop shows a corrupt and incompetent mind behind it. It was even unprofessional

calaway:

it was used to build only kano , the tin ore from JOS was used to developed northern Nigeria. oil has developed there entire Nigeria, oil built abuja from scratch oil runs you existence as it is today, show respect to oil and gejs village for giving you and your father and children life.

Did GEJ's village bury the oil there? Respect my foot. Hard work like the one that cultivated the groundnut and built the pyramid without cranes is what deserves respect. That is pure northern ingenuity.

There's dignity in labour.

DjAndroid:
The pyramids are coming back again. GEJ's agric reforms seem to be making sense.

At what cost?

siraj1402:
That is where our government failed,before the advent of oil,huge revenue were made through groundnuts, Coaco and rubber.But when oil was discovered,they all forgot our sources and continue dwelling in oil revenue. Now we are in a big mess due to huge reduction in oil price at the international market.My advice to the government of GMB is to focus more on agriculture as an alternative to oil so as to be the real good people with great nation.

The agriculture sector he could not develop in 1983 when he was thinking like a young man. How can you assure the same Buhari will bring the pyramid back.

DjAndroid:
The pyramids are coming back again. GEJ's agric reforms seem to be making sense.

u're wrong , those ones r 4 election.... Stomach infrastructure tinz.

U right stomach infrastructure

siraj1402:
That is where our government failed,before the advent of oil,huge revenue were made through groundnuts, Coaco and rubber.But when oil was discovered,they all forgot our sources and continue dwelling in oil revenue. Now we are in a big mess due to huge reduction in oil price at the international market.My advice to the government of GMB is to focus more on agriculture as an alternative to oil so as to be the real good people with great nation.

the mistake they made was the neglect of agriculture. both cn be made the mainstay of the economy

lord have mercy, times have changed.