Murtala yar'adua

Nigerian general and politician (1943–1997)

Shehu Musa Yar'AduaGCON ((listen^ⓘ); 5 March 1943 – 8 December 1997) was a Nigerian general and politician who was the de factovice president of Nigeria as Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters when Nigeria was under military rule from 1976 to 1979.

Umaru musa yar'adua

Maryam yar’adua

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Abdulaziz musa yar'adua

Umaru musa yar'adua sons

He was a prominent politician during the later transition from military to civilian rule in the late 1980s and into the 1990s.

Early life

Yar'Adua was born in Katsina into a titled family. His father, Musa Yar'Adua, was a teacher who later became the Minister for Lagos Affairs from 1957 to 1966^[1] during Nigeria's First Republic and held the chieftaincy title of Tafidan Katsina before he was appointed to the title of Mutawallin Katsina (keeper of the treasury).^[2] 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