THE MUCH-PUBLICISED People’s Democratic Front (PDF) has run into rough weather. It is now Delhi Jama Masjid Imam Ahmad Bukhari versus PDF chairman and prominent Shia cleric Kalbe Jawad. Refusing to ...
Buhari was a main figure behind the 1983 Nigerian coup d'état which led to the overthrow of the Second Republic. Although not the ringleader, Buhari became head of the military junta amid a period of deep economic crisis and widespread corruption.
Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian military leader and politician. He served as Nigeria’s miltary head of state in 1984–85 after a military coup on , and as a democratically elected president (2015–23) after standing unsuccessfully for the post in 2003, 2007, and 2011.
After three failed attempts, Buhari achieved a historic victory in 2015, becoming the country's first opposition candidate to defeat an incumbent. In 2019, he was re-elected for another four-year...
Buhari - the austere Nigerian military ruler who defeated a sitting ...
Former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, who led the country twice as a military head of state and a democratic president, has died aged 82.
Former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, a former military general who campaigned on rooting out government corruption, has died at age 82, the presidential press office said in a statement on...
Muhammadu Buhari, an austere soldier and politician who led Nigeria as a feared military strongman in the 1980s and, three decades later, as a democratically elected president, died on Sunday in...
Buhari’s austere image and northern support base helped him build a national coalition that twice propelled him to the presidency, a rare feat in Nigerian politics.