Muhammadu Buhari

Muhammadu Buhari
Author: John N. Paden
Publisher: Roaring Forties Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-11-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1938901681

This authorized biography of the current president of Nigeria provides an up-close look at the life of a major ally of the West in the fight against terrorism, poverty, and corruption. The book covers Buhari’s early life and education, his military career, and his brief stint as military of state before he was deposed in a coup. A beacon for democracy in Africa, Buhari is the only Nigerian opposition candidate to be elected to the presidency. The book examines the first year of his presidency, looking at the immense security, economic, and political challenges he faces and the bold moves he is making to tackle them with support at home and abroad.

Buhari: The Making of a President

Buhari: The Making of a President
Author: Lawal, Jimi Adebisi
Publisher: Safari Books Ltd
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9785478548

The first four months of the year 2015 will be remembered by many as some of the most apprehensive days ever in the history of Nigeria. The destiny of Nigeria was hanging in the balance. In the centre of this political theatre were two personalities with significantly different trajectories: one, the incumbent president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) who had enjoyed an unprecedented, almost meteoric rise, to the apex of political power, and the other, then General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Buhari: The Making of a President is a story of intrigues, suspense, betrayals, reconciliations, collaborations and strategic concessions, one which only an insider could have told to such detail.

I Belong to Everybody and I Belong to Nobody

I Belong to Everybody and I Belong to Nobody
Author: C. Anguslaz Anokwute
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2016-02-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781530188994

Muhammadu Buhari was the seventh Head of Government of an independent Nigeria, serving then as a Military Head of State- and is also the current President of a democratic Nigeria, hence the fifteenth "number one citizen" of the Federal Republic. President Muhammadu Buhari was born, 17 December 1942, in a halcyon country side of Daura (to the family of Adamu and Zulaihat) in the present day Katsina State of Nigeria. But as fate would have it, this twenty-third child of Adamu lost his dear father at a rather tender age of four. Although Buhari lost his father at such an early age in life, the hand of destiny never left him to fall by the way side- to be consigned to the dustbin of oblivion. And so it was that under the sponsorship of a "foresighted" determined mother, the forthright Muhammadu Buhari obtained formal education at different times at his native home town of Daura- and also Mai'adua. It is on record that he attended Katsina Model School in 1953, and then Katsina Provincial Secondary School (now Government College Katsina) between 1956 and 1961. Any story told about Buhari will never be complete without mentioning the very fact that this man who prefers to live a low-profile or rather reserved life-style had a glorious Military career, spanning decades of dedicated service to father-land. This book is a compilation of some PATRIOTIC QUOTES CULLED FROM SPEECHES AND STATEMENTS of the currently serving PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA (MUHAMMADU BUHARI). The material is a well-arranged piece with the sole aim of teaching and instilling in our people that sense of patriotism or national-consciousness which seems fading away, or even lacking, but which is most needed at this time. Nothing gingers the human mind like inspirational words such as those contained in this presentation. It is our firm belief that something has to be done to re-awaken the spirit of our people towards being in tune with the change mantra of Mr. President.

The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream

The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream
Author: Michael Chima Ekenyerengozi
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2015-06-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1329192281

The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream: My Testimony on the 2015 Presidential Election is an important chronicle of the 2015 presidential election in Nigeria and the principal actors in the emergence of the first Nigerian presidential candidate to defeat an incumbent President in the political history of Nigeria.

My Watch

My Watch
Author: Olusegun Obasanjo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Autobiography
ISBN: 9789789437573

We Must Kill Corruption Before Corruption Will Kill Us

We Must Kill Corruption Before Corruption Will Kill Us
Author: C. Anguslaz Anokwute
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2018-12-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781792958335

Beside religious bigotry and ethnicity, the major thorn in the flesh of the Nigerian nation and a troubling index is the twin monster of bribery and corruption. Really, Nigeria's image, everyone knows, has been a very bad one, so battered into shame by both aliens and Nigerians themselves-- via this act of bribery and corruption. At the wake of the overthrow of the government of the first republic Nigeria in 1966, Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu averred: "Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the men in high and low places that seek bribes and demand 10 percent; those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so that they can remain in office as ministers or VIPs at least, the tribalists, the nepotists, those that make the country look big for nothing before international circles, those that have corrupted our society and put the Nigerian political calendar back by their words and deeds". Yes, since the time of Nzeogwu and his fellow coupists, each coming government in Nigeria has always promised to make the fight against corruption its cardinal objective. But certainly and sadly enough, most of those successive governments in the country have only paid lip-service to the system, while the Heads of Government had either participated in the loots directly or through proxies, or felt indifferent.The Economic & Financial Crimes Commission has been doggedly fighting to change the bad narrative about Nigeria, especially recently under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari and Mr Ibrahim Magu. Though there may be concerns (genuine and imagined) here and there about the operations of the apex anti-corruption agency, but it can only get better as Nigerians cooperate with EFCC-- even as the relevant Laws governing the operation of this all-important agency are being reviewed or strengthened to curb perceived excesses or arbitrariness; and more-importantly to give more legal biting teeth to the crime-fighting organization.Yes, and indeed, the war against corruption is one that must be won; because according to President Buhari, it is either we kill corruption or corruptions kills Nigeria. And in this well-intended fight, only the guilt needs to be afraid!

Troubled Journey

Troubled Journey
Author: Levi Akalazu Nwachuku
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780761827122

Troubled Journey: Nigeria Since the Civil War is the latest of a number of case-study probes into Nigeria's unique experience as a modern African state. It pulls together a talented group of Nigerian historians who have been close students of Nigeria's "troubled journey" since Independence Day on October 1, 1960, and more precisely since the conclusion of its devastating Civil War from 1967 to 1970. This book is a major contribution to the on-going debate about how the country can best be politically restructured and socio-economically reformed.

Ibrahim Babangida

Ibrahim Babangida
Author: Dan Agbese
Publisher: Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2012-06-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1912234343

To borrow a hackneyed phrase, Nigeria has had a chequered political history before and since independence from British colonial rule on October 1, 1960. Two sets of actors - the civilian politicians and the military politicians - have been on the national political stage since January 15, 1966. General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida was one of them. In his eight years in power as president, or perhaps more correctly as military president, he affected the course of Nigeria's events, for better or for worse, in a way that few, if any, before him did. It is not possible to tell Nigeria's story without Babangida's part in it.The book is the story of IBB, the little orphan from Minna, Niger State and his meticulous rise to the top of his profession and the leadership of his country. Perhaps, more importantly, it is the story of Nigeria, its post-independence politics and power, told from the perspective of the actions and decisions of one of the main actors on the country's political stage. The events that shaped the Babangida era did not begin on August 27, 1985, the day he staged a palace coup against General Muhammadu Buhari. They began long before that. This book is the definitive story of the military, politics and power in Nigeria.