Biography of Umaru Musa Yaradua


Late Nigerian President, Umaru Musa.

Umar Musa Yar'Adua was born on August 16, 1951 in the northern city ​​of Katsina . His father was the first minister of Lagos in the first republic, and before his death he was the wife of Katsina, succeeded by the late Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.The deceased started Rafukka Primary School in 1958 before being transferred to Dutsinma Primary School in 1962. He attended Keffi Government College from 1965 to 1969. He then went to Barewa College in 1971, where he received his HSC.Former President Yar'Adua attended Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria from 1972 to 1978 where he obtained a degree in Comparative Chemistry or Chemistry , before returning to pursue a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry.

The deceased served in Lagos State where he taught at Holy Trinity School from 1975-1976. After serving in the national service, he began his career as a full-time undergraduate at the University of CAST, Zaria between 1976 and 1979. In 1983, the late Malam Umaru Musa Yar'adua resigned from the faculty of Malanta. He started working at Sambo Farms in Funtua, Katsina, where he was GM from 1983-1989. Since 1984, after the military coup ousted Umaru Musa Yar'adua, he was called to serve as a trustee of a number of private corporations and government agencies including the Katsina State Agricultural and Technical College, the Bank. Habib, Hamada Carpets, Madara Limited, and The Nation publisher and publisher of the late General Shehu Musa Yar'Adua.When late Mr. Umaru Musa Yar'Adua entered politics, he sided with his father, who was then the vice-president of the NPN, and was a member of the opposition party, Mr. Aminu Kano . NPN. When General Babangida played the part of the politicalparty he became the secretary of the SDP in Katsina and its candidate for governor, but NRC candidate for the time, Mr. Saidu Barda.

In 1999, however, Malam Umaru Yar'Adua contested for the Katsina state governor's seat and won the PDP, and won it again in 2003.In 2007, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua became the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after he assisted former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on May 29, 2007.But the illness of the former president has left him unable to hold office as he hopes his seven budgets will move forward by 2020.The late Mallam Umaru Musa Yar'Adua died on May 5, 2010, in the capital Abuja, two months after returning home from Saudi Arabia .He is also survived by his mother, brothers and a wife Hajj Europe along with his seven children, including five wives and two sons. He also has two sons and his second wife Hajia Ha Umar Radda. Read More