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Shehu Musa Yar'Adua was born on 5 March, 1943 in Katsina, Northern Region, British Nigeria (now in Katsina State, Nigeria), is a Nigerian general and politician (1943–1997). Discover Shehu Musa Yar'Adua's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

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Occupation Politician · military officer
Age 54 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 5 March 1943
Birthday 5 March
Birthplace Katsina, Northern Region, British Nigeria (now in Katsina State, Nigeria)
Date of death 8 December, 1997
Died Place Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
Nationality Niger

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1943

Shehu Musa Yar'Adua (5 March 1943 – 8 December 1997) was a Nigerian general and politician who was the de facto vice president of Nigeria as Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters when Nigeria was under military rule from 1976 to 1979.

1957

His father, Musa Yar'Adua, was a teacher who later became the Minister for Lagos Affairs from 1957 to 1966

during Nigeria's First Republic and held the chieftaincy title of Tafidan Katsina before he was appointed to the title of Mutawallin Katsina (keeper of the treasury).

1962

He passed and was enlisted into the Nigerian Army in 1962 as part of the course 5 intake of the Nigerian military training school.

Yar'Adua was selected for further training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

He was turbaned as the Tafidan Katsina by the Emir of Katsina Muhammadu Kabir Usman.

1964

In 1964, after he returned from Sandhurst, Yar'Adua was posted to the first infantry battalion of the Nigerian Army in Enugu under the command of Col Adekunle Fajuyi as second lieutenant.

From 1964 to the end of the Nigerian Civil War, he held various positions including platoon commander in 1964, and from 1965 to 1966 adjutant of the First Infantry Battalion in Enugu.

1967

He was a battalion commander in 1967, and in 1968 became a Brigade Commander.

During the civil war, he commanded the 6th infantry brigade under the leadership of Murtala Muhammed, commander of the second division.

In October 1967, Yar'Adua was given the responsibility for the capture of Onitsha after two (2) unsuccessful attempts by the Nigerian troops.

1975

In 1975, he was an active participant in the military coup d'état that deposed General Yakubu Gowon as Nigeria's Head of State.

After the success of the coup, he served as Transport Minister in General Murtala Muhammed's regime.

As Transport Minister his major task was to decongest the Lagos port.

Prior to the coup, officials of the previous regime had ordered 16 million tonnes of cement to build military barracks around the country.

However, the berthing facilities of the port were inadequate.

The financial implications became more striking because the Nigerian government was liable to pay demurrage fees by the shippers.

The Muhammed regime decided to transfer some of the cargoes to neighboring ports and introduce cement management firms to clear and sell the cement and build the new Tin Can Island Port.

1976

Following the 1976 Nigerian coup d'état attempt, which resulted in the assassination of Murtala Muhammed, Yar'Adua became the Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters.

The new regime was a triumvirate of power consisting of General Olusegun Obasanjo as Head of State, Shehu Yar'Adua as Chief of Staff SMHQ, and General Theophilus Danjuma as Chief of Army Staff.

As head of the SMHQ, Yar'Adua was the de facto second-in-command.

Yar'Adua who was from the northern aristocracy was relied on heavily by the triumvirate to consolidate power in the north.

His office was assigned the task of managing operations of Operation Feed the Nation, a self-reliant agricultural policy of the new Obasanjo 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 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 Corpers to teach peasant farmers how to use modern agricultural equipment.

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 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.

1979

However, by 1979 the policy had not achieved its primary goal of self-reliance and self-sufficiency.

In 1979, the regime transferred power to the civilian elected government of Shehu Shagari ushering in the Second Nigerian Republic which lasted from 1979 to 1983.

The triumvirate later retired from the military.

1980

He was a prominent politician during the later transition from military to civilian rule in the late 1980s and into the 1990s.

Yar'Adua was born in Katsina into a titled family.

1987

General Ibrahim Babangida started his political transition program in 1987 with the establishment of a Political Bureau, and a Constituent Assembly was later inaugurated to deliberate on a proposed draft constitution.

Though Yar'Adua was not a member of the assembly and a law had proscribed certain old breed politicians from political activities, his associates represented his political leanings at the forum and was active in the formation of political associations during the transitional period.

Yar'Adua and his group formed the People's Front of Nigeria; Members included Babagana Kingibe, Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu, Magaji Abdullahi, Ango Abdullahi, Ahmadu Rufa'i, Yahaya Kwande, Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila, Wada Abubakar, Babalola Borishade, Timothy Oguntuase Akinbode, Sabo Bakin Zuwo, Sunday Afolabi, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Tony Anenih, Chuba Okadigbo and Abubakar Koko.

2007

Yar'Adua's grandfather, Malam Umaru, was also the Mutawalli, and his younger brother Umaru Yar'Adua, who later became the president of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010, held the title as well.

His paternal grandmother, Malama Binta, a Fulani from the Sullubawa clan, was a princess of the Katsina Emirate and a sister of Emir Muhammadu Dikko.

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 Muhammadu Buhari.

At the urging of his father and his father's friend, defence minister Muhammadu Ribadu, Yar'Adua took the entrance exam of the Nigerian Military Training College.