About: Musa Usman     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbo:OfficeHolder, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FMusa_Usman&invfp=IFP_OFF&sas=SAME_AS_OFF

Brigadier (air force) Musa Usman was the first governor of North-Eastern State, Nigeria from May 1967 to July 1975 after the state had been formed from part of Northern Region during the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon. After retirement, he was allocated a residence in the prestigious Jabi Street area of Kaduna.Usman later became a director of the Bank of the North.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Musa Usman (en)
rdfs:comment
  • Brigadier (air force) Musa Usman was the first governor of North-Eastern State, Nigeria from May 1967 to July 1975 after the state had been formed from part of Northern Region during the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon. After retirement, he was allocated a residence in the prestigious Jabi Street area of Kaduna.Usman later became a director of the Bank of the North. (en)
foaf:name
  • Musa Usman (en)
name
  • Musa Usman (en)
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
office
  • Governor, North-Eastern State, Nigeria (en)
predecessor
rank
successor
term end
  • July 1975 (en)
term start
has abstract
  • Brigadier (air force) Musa Usman was the first governor of North-Eastern State, Nigeria from May 1967 to July 1975 after the state had been formed from part of Northern Region during the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon. Usman attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, England gaining his commission in 1962.Major Usman was a participant in the July 1966 coup when Major General Aguiyi Ironsi was overthrown, replaced by General Yakubu Gowon.Appointed governor of North-East State in May 1967, Usman initiated construction of the Ashaka cement factory, eventually opened on 19 July 1979 by Major-General Shehu Musa Yar'Adua.In 1975 he participated in friendly negotiations with Cameroon to settle the border between that country and Nigeria.He was a cautious supporter of the principle that the military government should hand over to civilian rule in 1976. After retirement, he was allocated a residence in the prestigious Jabi Street area of Kaduna.Usman later became a director of the Bank of the North. (en)
military service
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 67 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software