Shehu Musa Yar'Adua
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Shehu Musa Yar'Adua 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.
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Name tag on the uniform of Shehu Musa Yar'adua
Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Centre in Abuja
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2007 until his death in May 2010. He won the Nigerian presidential election held on 21 April 2007, and was swo
Shehu Musa Yar'Adua
…to the title of Mutawallin Katsina (keeper of the treasury). 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…
Yar'Adua in 2008
President Yar'Adua with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, then managing director of the World Bank, in 2008
Yar'Adua and Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh in October 2007
At the 33rd G8 summit in Heiligendamm in 2007 (Yar'Adua at the very right)