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	Shehu Shagari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, Turakin Sakkwato (born May 25, 1925) was the President of Nigeria's ill-fated Second Republic (1979 - 1983), after the handover of power by General Olusegun Obasanjo's caretaker government.
		Shagari is a northerner of Fulani extraction and holds the title of Turakin Sakkwato in the Sokoto Caliphate.
		He was a schoolteacher for a brief period before entering politics in 1954, when he was elected into the federal House of Representatives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shehu_Shagari (100 words)

	Shagari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Whereas Awolowo challenged the award of victory to Shagari in the law court, it was obvious that the administration of the day was intent on swearing in Shagari as the next president of the country.
		Shehu Shagaris election in 1979 was a fait accompli.
		Shagaris latest effort to rewrite history is at best a pet delusion, a tale to be told to small children along with other fairy tales.
	www.nigerdeltacongress.com /sarticles/shagari.htm (861 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com
		Shagari, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, Alhaji Shehu, 1925-, president of Nigeria (1979-83).
		In 1978 he helped form the National party, and his subsequent election as president marked the end of 13 years of military rule in Nigeria.
		Shehu, Mehmet Shehu, Mehmetmĕmĕt´ shĕ´hoo, 1913-81, Albanian political leader, premier (1954-81).
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Shehu+Shagari (212 words)

	Shehu Shagari - Wikipedia
		Shagari machte nach einer Ausbildung zum Oberschullehrer eine politische Karriere in der I. Republik.
		Shagari war Mitgründer der "National Party of Nigeria" und Präsidentschaftskandidat.
		Im Dezember 1982 wurde er jedoch durch den Militärputsch von General Muhammadu Buhari gestürzt.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shehu_Shagari (147 words)

	AFRICAN HISTORY TIMELINE: Independent Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Five parties competed for the presidency, and Shehu Shagari of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) won.
		In Nigeria's second national elections, Shehu Shagari was reelected president of Nigeria in August-September 1983.
		Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, a former vice-president and political opponent of Abacha, died in prison, leading to charges that he was poisoned.
	courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his311/timeline/t-nigeri.htm (1078 words)

	BiafraNigeriaWorld (BNW) Magazine:: Your Constitution or your Republic - the Shagari-Buhari Paradox
		Former President Shehu Shagari and former dictator Muhammed Buhari recently declared that the decision reached at the last Council of State meeting in Abuja are legally unenforceable against the Northern states that are seeking to impose Sharia law.
		The reason adduced by Shagari and Buhari for their un-statesmanlike stance is that the Council of State lacks the constitutional authority to rescind or even suspend state Sharia law.
		While Shagari and Buhari wave their jaundiced view of the Constitution at Obasanjo and BiafraNigeria, they should realize that the barbarism that they could be aiding and abetting are sufficient grounds for a legally binding suspension of the very constitutional provisions that now deem to favor their Shariarist cause.
	magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com /ejamanze/2002may05.html (1403 words)

	THISDAYonline
		I did not meet President Shagari again until December 1978 at the first national convention of the National Party of Nigeria, where he, who wanted to be a distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic, was nominated as the party's presidential flag bearer and eventually became President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
		One of the greatest problems the Shagari administration had to contend with was the media, popularly styled "of the Lagos-Ibadan axis." The administration was the target of unremitting and unrelenting hostile attack.
		In short Alhaji Shagari was the first or second choice of voters as their President in eighteen out of the nineteen states in Nigeria at that time.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2001/03/03/20010303com02.html (1995 words)

	BNW News Blog: Biafra Nigeria World News Index and Digest: Shagari supports e-voting for 2007 poll
		Second Republic President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, has urged the National Assembly to approve the adoption of the electronic voting system for future elections despite the opposition to the use of the system by Northern delegates at the National Political Reform Conference.
		Shagari said that INEC should be funded from the Federation Account with the National Assembly exercising oversight functions over its operations, adding that the new electoral law should place a ceiling on the amount of money candidates should be allowed to spend during elections.
		On electoral offences, Shagari said that firm sanctions must be imposed on offending electoral officers and party agents while a constitutional court should be established to promptly deal with election petitions and offences.
	news.biafranigeriaworld.com /archive/punch/2005/07/05/shagari_supports_evoting_for_2007_poll.php (508 words)

	Obasanjoâs government off course, says Shehu Musa - OnlineNigeria.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		For three years, Alhaji Shehu Musa was saddled with the task of sanitizing what he called the âhaywireâ situation at the Ministry of Defence.
		Alhaji Shehu Musa is not too comfortable with the policies of the present administration.
		Even then, Alhaji Shehu Musa parried the question as to whether it is now the turn of the Igbo to take a shot at the Presidency given the fact that the South West has been in the saddle for eight years.
	nm.onlinenigeria.com /templates/?a=4238&z=12 (1922 words)

	Nigeria 2003 History repeated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		He was writing five weeks after the installation of Shehu Shagari, on October 1, 1979, as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
		The critical ground of rejection was that Alhaji Shehu Shagari did not score at least one-quarter of the total votes cast in each of at least two-thirds of the total number of states in Nigeria.
		Thus, the electoral body was able to announce, in August 1983, not only that Azikiwe and Awolowo were defeated, once again, by Shehu Shagari in the presidential election but also that the ruling NPN had increased the number of states it controlled from seven in 1979 to 12 in 1983.
	www.nigerdeltacongress.com /narticles/nigeria_2003_history_repeated.htm (1393 words)

	Online NewsHour -- Nigeria in Transition: Nigeria's Post-Colonial Political Turmoil
		As the transition toward elections progressed, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, a minister during Nigeria's First Republic, helped establish the largely northern National Party of Nigeria.
		When elections were held in 1979, Shagari won with 34 percent of the overall vote.
		Despite the political standoff, Shagari assumed the newly delineated presidency, marking an end to 13 years of military rule.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/africa/nigeria/political_history_6.html (217 words)

	DAILY TRIUMPH -Shagari advocates independent INEC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Former President Shehu Shagari has recommended an independent INEC so that it could discharge its duties without fear or favour.
		Shagari, who stated this yesterday in Kaduna at a public hearing by the Senate Committee on INEC on proposed Electoral Bill 2004, also recommended that members of the commission be appointed from professional bodies and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO).
		Shagari also wanted Nigerians living abroad to be allowed to register and vote at the general election, adding that Nigerian diplomatic missions abroad could be authorised to undertake that function.
	www.triumphnewspapers.com /shagari572005.htm (239 words)

	DAILY TRIUMPH -Don't allow parties die, Shagari advises politicians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Former President Shehu Shagari yesterday in Abuja advised politicians to never again, allow political parties to die, ``even if by any misfortune there was another interruption''.
		Shagari gave the advice in his key-note address as the chairman of the First All Party Summit organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Inter and Intra-Party Relations.
		Shagari attributed the divisive nature of politics to individual interests and pursuits, and appealed to politicians to always discuss to arrive at a common goal for the benefit of the citizenry.
	www.triumphnewspapers.com /dont2092005.htm (308 words)

	General News of Sunday, 10 March 2002
		The Ghanaian leader said that through the new partnership on african economic development (NAPED), a document co-produced by Obasanjo and the leaders of Algeria, South africa and Senegal, he was hopeful that with the support of the international community, the continent would pull itself out of poverty and deprivation.
		Earlier in a lecture he delivered on the virtues of the late Gen. Shehu Yar'adua, former president Shehu Shagari said that from the onset the young Shehu had set out to be a leader and he had worked tirelessly for that until his death in prison in 1997.
		Shagari said that Shehu had consulted him on his desire to join politics in the early 1980's after the military government that he served in had handed over power to civilians in 1979.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=22309 (349 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Shagari therefore congratulated the governor for upholding a singular political strategy to achieve what he was determined to achieve.
		Earlier in his speech, the Zamfara State governor said the procurement and disbursement of the ZASIDEP operational vehicles was aimed at ensuring effective monitoring of the programme, with a view to achieving the desire objective.
		Shagari also launched the first phase of electrification projects for 42 towns and villages and laid the foundation stone for the Gusau Modern Market project.
	www.ngrguardiannews.com /news/article22/040904 (232 words)

	THISDAYonline
		The same critics of Shagari's government and its corruption have turned around to say that it was General Babangida that deepened the cleavages of corruption in Nigeria.
		When President Shagari set up his Ethical Revolution Committee, he was pooh-poohed by those who thought they knew better, yet no one has offered us any superior strategy for confronting the ogre of the rut that has over taken our land.
		Mathew Hassan Kukah wrote this in honour of Alhaji Shehu Shagari whose authobiography, Beckoned to Serve is being launched today in Abuja.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2001/02/22/20010222art01.html (3094 words)

	In Wole Soyinka’s recent book subtitled “ A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis,” the author makes connections ...
		Characters like Shehu Shagari, Maitama Sule, Ibrahim Babangida, and Sani Abacha are examples of these representatives while such names as Sunday Adewusi, Ernest Shonekan, and members of the Association for Better Nigeria under Babangida and its new variant under Abacha represent the scions of the reactionary hegemony.
		The chapter titled "The Spoils of Power," attributes political tricksterism to Shagari's regime and to the Buhari junta that pushed Shagari aside to ensure the continuity of the control of the country by the northern Caliphate.
		The indiscriminate jailing of southern politicians under the Buhari regime and the relative leniency with which their northern counterparts were treated, including the botched-up attempt to bring Umaru Dikko from London in crates all suggest the hidden agenda of the ruling cabal in Nigeria.
	www.yoruba.org /Magazine/Winter97/Wint9744.htm (855 words)

	Nigeria - THE SECOND REPUBLIC, 1979-83
		The first elections under the 1979 constitution were held on schedule in July and August 1979, and the FMG handed over power to a new civilian government under President Shehu Shagari on October 1, 1979.
		Shagari won the presidency, defeating Azikiwe in a close and controversial vote.
		Shagari was reelected president, and the NPN gained 61 of 95 Senate seats and 307 of 450 House of Representatives seats.
	countrystudies.us /nigeria/29.htm (1333 words)

	Military Rebellion of July 29
		Former President Shehu Shagari – who was then the Finance Commissioner - recalls the case of a spending memo Mohammed tried to rush through the Federal Executive Council (FEC) without approval of the Finance Ministry.
		His rationale was that he was trying to avoid “unnecessary bureaucratic red tape.” But when his memo was rejected by the FEC he went back to Shagari and sought advice on appropriate modifications to the memo that Shagari then agreed to present in his behalf since he was going on pilgrimage.
		Shehu Musa Yar’Adua was at the center of it.
	www.dawodu.com /omoigui43.htm (2691 words)

	Obasanjo
		The younger Shagari is a son of the former President Shagari.
		Obasanjo drafted the younger Shagari to bolster his sagging image in the Northwest Obasanjo organized the election that ushered the second republic, which was led by Shehu Shagari.
		Obasanjo handed over to Shagari in 1979 after one term and a few months Buhari led the army to drive away Shagari in 1983.
	www.gamji.com /jika/jika23.htm (1032 words)

	Amana Online
		It was not easy for me, because these things did not pass through me. But I was close to President Shehu Shagari, and I know I could rate his wealth status and affluence.
		At the end of the day, the same government that accused them of this and that put them in detention for a long time without trial, ridiculed them, dehumanised them and gave some of them ridiculous jail terms; at the end of it, we saw that not all that glitters was gold.
		And some people were saying that, "why should Shehu Musa work under Guobadia, his junior in the civil service", and there were reports that you threatened to resign.
	www.amanaonline.com /News/News_71.htm (4861 words)

	TODAY'S LEAD STORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		While the general was insisting that there was only a brief briefing on the Sharia to the Council and not discussion, Shagari was questioning the Constitutionality of the directive issued to states to revert all laws passed on expanded Sharia to the status quo.
		The Punch of March of the same date, agrees Ex-President Shagari’s reported objection to the Council's purported decision on legal grounds would seem.in principle to be sound In the final analysis the point at issue is one of law.
		It adds, the statement of former president Shehu Shagari that the decision of the Council is not binding on state governments is as solid as the Zuma Rock".
	www.n-today.ndtilda.co.uk /issue158.htm (1404 words)

	Online NewsHour -- Nigeria in Transition: The 2003 Elections: A Democratic Test
		Nigeria's election troubles began as early as 1983, after the country elected Shehu Shagari, its first civilian leader.
		Shagari was toppled by a military coup three months after the election.
		Following Shagari's ouster, Nigeria experienced 10 years of military rule and two military coups, including an uprising in 1990 in which 200 soldiers involved in the coup were executed.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/africa/nigeria/election_challenge.html (976 words)

	Shehu Ahmadu Lobbo -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Shehu also spelled Seku, or Cheikou, Lobbo also spelled Lobo, also called Hamad Bari, or Ahmadu Hammadi Bubu, Arabic name Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Abu Bakr Ibn Sa'id Fulani Muslim leader in western Africa who established a theocratic state in the Macina region of what is now Mali.
		Influenced by the teachings of the Islamic reformer Usman dan Fodio, he began a holy war (jihad) in 1818 or possibly as early as 1810.
		Shehu Ahmadu Lobbo (Cheikou Amadou), a Fulani Muslim cleric, successfully overturned the ruling Fulani dynasty in Macina in 1810 and established a theocratic state whose capital was...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9067239?tocId=9067239&query=abu (568 words)

	Vanguard - Columns : Would Obasanjo cede Gowon a bed?
		Buhari overthrew President Shehu Shagari and was, in turn, overthrown by Babangida.
		Buhari is still sour at Shagari (for leading a “corrupt and undisciplined” regime) and Babangida (for betraying trust).
		Shagari was a Federal Commissioner during the Gowon regime.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/columns/peopleandpolitics/pp10032005.html (1380 words)

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