Perhaps the killing over 80 people in Kaduna on 23 July was a reaction to that: one bomber drove a car laden with explosives towards Buhari's convoy; the other explosion was that of a suicide bomber targeting the Sufi Imam Dahiru Bauchi another critic of Boko Haram who had been leading prayers in Murtala Mohammed Square in the city centre...
out of the country at Murtala Mohammed Airport Lagos...
The row started over the Nigerian government's insistence that VNA should move its operations from the international terminal at Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos to a new domestic terminal about 1 000 metres away...
VNA was ordered to move to the new domestic terminal known as Murtala Mohammed Airport Two (MMA2) in the name of ‘national security' to make drugs smuggling more difficult by separating domestic and international passengers...
Buhari was Shehu Yar'Adua's oldest friend and Shehu named his second son after him (his first son Murtala was named after Murtala Mohammed with whom Yar'Adua served in the 1967-70 civil war and on whose behalf he helped organise the 1975 coup against Yakubu Gowon)...
Atiku says he will show cheques given by Fasawe to Obasanjo; his gifts of friendship included cars bought for two lady friends (according to the Atiku camp one is Ajoke Mohammed wife of Obasanjo's late predecessor and former boss Murtala Mohammed)...
Murtala Mohammed who was killed in the coup attempt...
During the civil wars and military interregnums permanent secretaries and senior staff kept Nigeria going until in the mid-1970s General Murtala Mohammed sacked thousands of them and badly damaged both the civil service and the whole idea of public service...
Federalist policies were pursued after the civil war by Nigerian nationalists such as Yakubu Gowon Murtala Mohammed Obasanjo Yakubu Danjuma M...
Murtala Mohammed was assassinated in 1976...
He established the old Nigerian Security Organisation in the 1970s and was Director of Military Intelligence in the Murtala Mohammed-Obasanjo governments of 1975-1979; he was also close to Mohammadu Dikko Yusufu then Inspector General of Police and now a possible civilian candidate for the presidency...
