”The rocket-launching party then began shelling the house. NNDC was an holding company with capital sourced from the region’s marketing board while NNIL was a partnership between the Commonwealth Development Corporation and NNDC created to assist in the industrial development in Northern Nigeria. He was still serving as premier of Northern Nigeria at the time. He made attempts to become the Sultan of Sokoto but was not successful, losing to Sir Siddiq Abubakar III who reigned for 50 years until his death in 1988. sardauna of sokoto, his biography article on the life, death and political legacy. They were trying to escape. But there is … He was overly obsessed with turning Nigeria into an Islamic feifdom, in which he fashioned himself as the "Sultan". He sponsored the Bank of the North, the Northern Nigerian Development Company, and founded the Ahmadu Bello University. Enter your email to receive instant news from TopSearch Magazine. Hafsatu, his senior wife, died alongside him. ”On finding them, Nzeogwu shot the Sardauna and his senior wife who was trying to protect him. He was educated at the Government College Kaduna and Ahmadu Bello University Zaria where he studied Medicine and graduated in 1984. On 15 January 1966, Bello was assassinated by Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu an Igbo Nigerian Army officer in a coup which toppled Nigeria’s post-independence government. Gripping details of how Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto and Premier of the Northern region was killed by mutinous soldiers led by the late Major Kaduna Chukwuma Nzeogwu on January 15, 1966 have been revealed in a series of dispatches by British diplomats and intelligence officers during the period. Boom! Read more in http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2016/06/british-secret-files-on-nigerias-first-bloody-coup-path-to-biafra/. how the northerners started killing biafrans from 1945. He was selected with some others as a member of a committee that redrafted the Richard’s Constitution and he also attended a general conference in Ibadan. ”They (Sardauna and his wives) listened and rattled prayer beads in fear for an hour as Nzeogwu and his motivated mutineers booted down doors, pumped bullets into guards mounting resistance and shouted to others, “Ina Sardauna? He later attended Sokoto Provincial School and the Katsina Training College (now Barewa College). ”With the huge flame before him overpowering the harmattan and the night with abundance of light and heat, Nzeogwu was satisfied his own unit’s assignment was a success. Bello was in succession minister of Works, of Local Government and of Community Development in the Northern Region of Nigeria. In that intervention, a crop of First Republic approves N2.4bn for constituency projects, CCT programme: 76,804 vulnerable households benefit from N1.056bn in Kebbi – FG, Cars Donation to Ondo Legislators: You are Not Fair to Nine Members, Says Ajayi to Akeredolu, Edo: We are Committed to Credible Poll – INEC, Sokoto State Govt. History is not meant to fan the amber of hatred and bitterness, but what everyone should learn from. Bello received Islamic education at home, where he learnt the Qur’an, Islamic jurisprudence and the traditions of the Prophet. Yeye de smell. His work at the assembly and in the constitution drafting committee brought him appreciation in the north and he was asked to take on leadership positions within Jamiyya Mutanen Arewa. A million death to sarduna or sadin Ahemdu bello. What a bad body language and ignoble way to dance on the grave of a kinsman! Alhaji (Sir) Ahmadu Bello was born in Rabah, the northwestern Nigerian city of Sokoto in 1909 to the family of Mallam Ibrahim Bello, a leading Islamic reformer. It was learnt that Nzeogwu then left for the brigade headquarters to await news from other units. He is passed over in favor of a “cousin” who is a few years his senior, but who will remain the incumbent through and beyond Ahmadu Bello’s lifetime. Due to a limited number of qualified graduates from the region, Sir Ahmadu Bello initiated the northernisation of the regions public service. The 40th Anniversary of the Death of Sir . He even mentored Captain Theophilus Danjuma to become a classical connoisseur. Ironsi got what he deserved. Boom! Bello’s final years were characteristic of his earlier years. 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