Muhammadu Buhari was born on 17
December 1942, in Daura , Katsina State, to
his father Adamu and mother Zulaihat. He is
the twenty-third child of his father. Buhari
was raised by his mother, after his father died
when he was about four years old.
He attended primary school in Daura and
Mai'adua before proceeding to Katsina Model
School in 1953, and to Katsina Provincial
Secondary School (now Government College Katsina)
from 1956 to 1961.

Military career
Buhari joined the Nigerian Army by enrolling in
the Nigerian Military Training College (NMTC)
in 1961. In February 1964, the college was
upgraded to an officer commissioning unit of
the Nigerian Army and renamed the Nigerian
Defence Academy (NDA) (prior to 1964, the
Nigerian government sent cadets who had
completed their NMTC preliminary training to
mostly Commonwealth military academies for officer cadet training). From 1962 to 1963, Buhari underwent officer cadet training at Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot in England..

In January 1963, Buhari was commissioned a
second lieutenant, and appointed Platoon
Commander of the Second Infantry Battalion
in Abeokuta , Nigeria. From November 1963 to
January 1964, Buhari attended the Platoon
Commanders’ Course at the Nigerian Military
Training College, Kaduna. In 1964, he
facilitated his military training by attending
the Mechanical Transport Officer’s Course at
the Army Mechanical Transport School in
Borden, United Kingdom .

From 1965 to 1967, Buhari served as
Commander of the Second Infantry Battalion
and appointed Brigade Major, Second Sector,
First Infantry Division, April 1967 to July 1967.
Buhari was made Brigade Major of the Third
Infantry Brigade, July 1967 to October 1968
and Brigade Major/Commandant, Thirty-first
Infantry Brigade, 1970 to 1971.
Buhari served as the Assistant Adjutant-
General, First Infantry Division Headquarters,
from 1971 to 1972. He also attended the
Defence Services Staff College, Wellington,
India, in 1973.
From 1974 to 1975 Buhari was Acting Director
of Transport and Supply at the Nigerian Army
Corps of Supply and Transport Headquarters.

He was also Military Secretary at the Army
Headquarters from 1978 to 1979 and was a
member of the Supreme Military Council from
1978 to 1979.
From 1979 to 1980, at the rank of colonel,
Buhari (class of 1980) attended the US Army
War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania , in the
United States , and gained a Masters Degree in
Strategic Studies. Upon completion of
the on-campus full-time resident program
lasting ten months and the two-year-long,
distance learning program, the United States
Army War College (USAWC) college awards its
graduate officers a master's degree in Strategic Studies.

Other roles include:
General Officer Commanding, 4th Infantry
Division, August 1980 – January 1981
General Officer Commanding, 2nd
Mechanised Infantry Division,
January 1981 – October 1981
General Officer Commanding, 3rd Armed
Division Nigerian Army,
October 1981 – December 1983

source.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammadu_Buhari

Sai Baba

With all this in his C.V., so the absence of a 4-year BS.c. disqualifies him? Some of us may never get as far as he has gone in life. He deserves our respect, true!

Does he have Primary School Certificate?


Yes or No.

yes