Muhammadu Buhari was bound to a Fulani family on 17 December 1942, in Daura, Katsina State, to his father Adamu and mother Zulaihat. He is the twenty-third posterity of his father. Buhari was raised by his mother, after his father kicked the container when he was around four years old.
He went to review school in Daura and Mai’adua before proceeding to Katsina Model School in 1953, and to Katsina Provincial Secondary School (now Government College Katsina) from 1956 to 1961.
1.Muhammadu Buhari As Governor of North Eastern State
From 1 August 1975 to 3 February 1976, General Murtala Mohammed, assigned Buhari as Governor of the North-Eastern State, to oversee social, budgetary and political improvements in the state. Buhari in like manner immediately filled in as Governor of Borno state from 3 February 1976 to 15 March 1976.
On 3 February 1976, the North Eastern state was isolated by the Military Government into Bauchi, Borno and Gongola states. In August 1991, Yobe state was produced using Borno state, while Gongola state was part into two states, Taraba and Adamawa. In October 1996, Gombe State was produced using Bauchi State.
2.Muhammadu Buhari As Federal Commissioner for Petroleum and Natural Resources
In March 1976, the Head of State, General Olusegun Obasanjo, chose Buhari as the Federal Commissioner (position now called Minister) for Petroleum and Natural Resources. Exactly when the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation was made in 1977, Buhari was in like manner chose as its Chairman, a position he held until 1978. In the midst of his residency as Commissioner, 2.8 billion Naira as far as anyone knows vanished from the records of the NNPC in Midlands Bank in the United Kingdom. Past President Ibrahim Babangida apparently pointed the finger at Buhari for being accountable for this misrepresentation.
In any case, in the complete of the Crude Oil Sales Tribunal of Inquiry headed by Justice Ayo Irikefe to investigate cases of N2.8 billion misappropriation from the NNPC account. The council found no reality in the assertions in spite of the way that it saw a couple of sneaks past in the NNPC accounts.
In the midst of Buhari’s residency as the Federal Commissioner for Petroleum and Natural Resources, the organization place assets into pipelines and oil amassing systems. The assembly worked around 21 oil amassing stations wherever all through the country from Lagos to Maidugiuri and from Calabar to Gusau; the association built up a pipeline mastermind that related Bonny terminal and the Port Harcourt refinery to the distribution centers. Moreover, the association denoted the understanding for the improvement of a refinery in Kaduna and an oil pipeline that will relate the Escravos oil terminal to Warri Refinery and the proposed Kaduna refinery.
3.Muhammadu Buhari Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund
Buhari filled in as the Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), a body made by the organization of General Sani Abacha, and upheld from the pay made by the development in cost of oil based items, to look for after developmental ventures around the country. A 1998 report in New African praised the PTF under Buhari for its straightforwardness, calling it an extraordinary “accomplishment story”. Be that as it may, a comparable report moreover saw that faultfinders had examined the PTF’s segment of 20% of its resources for the military, which the savants feared would not be in charge of the income.
4.Muhammadu Buhari Back in military organization
From 1978 to 1979, he was Military Secretary at the Army Headquarters and was a person from the Supreme Military Council from 1978 to 1979. From 1979 to 1980, at the rank of colonel, Buhari (class of 1980) went to the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in the United States, and grabbed a Masters Degree in Strategic Studies.Upon completing of the on-grounds full-time occupant program continuing ten months and the two-year-long, isolate learning program, the United States Army War College (USAWC) school gives its graduate officers a graduate degree in Strategic Studies.
Diverse parts include:
General Officer Commanding, fourth Infantry Division, August 1980 – January 1981
General Officer Commanding, second Mechanized Infantry Division, January 1981 – October 1981[36]
General Officer Commanding, third Armed Division Nigerian Army, October 1981 – December 1983
5.Muhammadu Buhari Chadian military endeavor
In 1983, when Chadian forces assaulted Nigeria in the Borno State, Buhari used the forces under his summon to seek after them out of the country, crossing into A chadian region despite a demand given by President Shagari to pull back. This 1983 Chadian military endeavor incited more than 100 setbacks and “prisoners of war”.
