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General Abdulsalami Abubakar....

Abdulsalami Abubakar issued licences to three private universities.

  • Abdulsalami Abubakar issued licences to three private universities.
  • The delegation from the ECOWAS bloc, headed by former Nigerian head of state Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, also met separately with toppled.
  • General Abdulsalami Abubakar.
  • Of Abdulsalami Abubakar, June 1998 to May 1999.
  • He was the longest-serving Jasin MP through 11 general elections from 1955 to 1999 when he won the Batu Berendam parliamentary constituency.

    • Abubakar, Abdulsalami –

    President

    In the late s Abdulsalami Abubakar briefly served as president of Nigeria and helped lead his country out of a troubled period of military rule and horrific human rights violations.

    To many in the international community, the man who had spent his career with the Nigerian Air Force seemed an unlikely harbinger for the restoration of democracy, but Abubakar proved worthy of the task. "Thrust suddenly under the world's gaze was a tall, stocky figure who seemed, with his nervous demeanor and owlish eyeglasses, something like a startled night creature caught in broad daylight,” wrote James Walsh for Time International. However, Walsh noted, the veteran military officer "surprised just about everyone by pledging one reform after another and, more important, keeping his word."

    Abubakar was born on June 13, , in Minna, the provincial capital of the Niger state in Nigeria, and was educated at the Government College not far from his home.

    During his