Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari

The parties have similar leaders tactics and goals: one bystander described the politicians as having ‘learned nothing and forgotten nothing' since the Second Republic government of Shehu Shagari was drummed out of power by the military in December 1993...

The most substantial reappearances on the political stage are by former heads of state Shehu Shagari and Gen...

Buoyed by this flood of petrodollars President Shehu Shagari' s civilian government started borrowing freely to pay for an increasingly import-dependent economy...

Despite Rawlings' close relationship with Abacha (on occasions he is used as a back-channel by Washington) there are bilateral frictions: Accra is keen to diversify its energy supplies (from Côte d'Ivoire and Equatorial Guinea) away from dependence on Nigerian oil and gas and as Rawlings told former Nigerian President Shehu Shagari (who was in Ghana for Hilla Limann's funeral in February) many Ghanaians still bitterly resent their expulsion in the early 1980s...

Shehu Shagari's National Party of Nigeria was denigrated as 'northern' by its opponents but it was more national than the opposition parties led by the late Obafemi Awolowo and Nnamdi Azikiwe; the NPN' s problem was not regionalism but its corruption...

Rawlings added that if pressed too hard the Nigerian regime could precipitate an upheaval involving junior army officers and warned that returning to civil rule risked a repeat of the sort of corruption seen under the Shehu Shagari government from 1979-83...

Olusegun Obasanjo handed power to the civilian government of President Shehu Shagari Fela presented the out-going regime with a replica of his mother's coffin...

Similarly Abacha has failed to attend a long list of diplomatic and civic ceremonies in the capital; dignitaries such as former President Shehu Shagari and Kano businessman Aminu Dantata have been kept waiting for hours on end and others for days...

Thousands including deposed civilian President Shehu Shagari and the new High Commissioner to Pretoria Shehu Malami went to Sokoto's central mosque to hear the announcement of Maccido's appointment...