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Ribadu, Mahmudu, 1910-1965


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    • Ribadu Yola, Mahmudu, 1910-1965
    • Ribadu, Muhammadu, 1910-1965

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        • found: Mahmudu Ribadu, 1989:t.p. (Mahmudu Ribadu) p. 1, etc. (Nigeria's first Minister of Defence, Alhaji Mahmudu Ribadu; known in Nigeria's information media as Muhammadu Ribadu; b. in 1910 at Ribadu town in Adamawa Emirate; d. May 1, 1965)
        • found: WW Nigeria, 1956(Ribadu, Hon. Alhaji Muhammadu, 1910-)
        • found: BLERF, Who's who in Nigeria, 1861- , RIBADU, Alhaji Mahmudu, viewed December 6, 2024(Qur'anic education under a number of scholars in Yola; enrolled in Yola Provincial School in 1920, part of the second generation of Western-educated elite; graduated in 1926, retained to teach there, taught at Yola Provincial School (which in 1930 became Yola Middle School) 1927-1932; selected to teach soldiers in the School; accountant with the Adamawa Treasure, 1932-1936; his knowledge of Arabic, Hausa and English helped British plans of transforming the accounting system of the Native Administration; also served as an instructor in the Treasury department until 1951; on 1 December 1936 he was installed as Ardo Balala at Yola; [apponted] District Head, acted as Treasurer whenever the incumbent was away; sent in 1946 along with other candidates from the North to the UK for a local government course; upon his return in December 1946 he was appointed as the new Ma'afi of Adamawa Native Authority, and his senior brother Ardo Buba succeeded him as District Head of Balala; nominated as the first-ever representative of Adamawa Province in the Northern House of Assembly, opened in 1947; focused on retirement benefits of demobilised soldiers 1948-1949; member of the Nigerian Board of Agriculture, 1949; served on the Groundnut Marketing Board and the Northern Regional Development Loan's Board 1949-1951; member of the Northern delegation to the Ibadan Constitutional Review Conference, 1950; elected in early 1952 as one of four members from the Northern House to represent the North at the Central Legislature in Lagos; appointed Federal Minister of Natural Resources (1952-1954) and nominated Director of the new Nigerian Produce Marketing Company (NPMC); also made "Member of the British Empire" (MBE) in 1952; at the 1954 convention of the NPC he was elected second Vice President, a position he held until his death in 1965; appointed Federal Minister of Land, Mines and Power 1954-1957 when Lagos Affairs was added to his ministry and it became the Ministry of Lagos Affairs, Land, Mines and Power, there until 1959; appointed Federal Minister of Lagos Affairs and Land 1959-1960; at independence in 1960, Aihafi [i.e., Alhaji] Mahmudu Ribadu Yola became Nigeria's first Minister of Defence) - https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/alhaji-mahmuduribadumha-mpmbe/#google_vignette
        • found: Historyville website, Muhammadu Ribadu (1909-1965): Nigeria's first Minister of Defence, November 24, 2018, viewed December 6, 2024(born at Bulala, present-day Adamawa State, North-East Nigeria; active in politics in the Northern Region and entered the Northern House of Assembly in Kaduna in 1947; he soon became a leader of the Northern People's Congress (NPC), founded in 1949 as a cultural organisation but soon turned into a political party; in Nigeria's first general elections of 1951/52 Ribadu won election to the Federal House of Representatives in Lagos, where he was appointed Minister of Natural Resources; he was previously a director of the Nigerian Produce Marketing Company, but resigned to become a Minister; photo caption: Alhaji Muhammadu Ribadu (1910-1965); as Minister of Defence he presided over a rapid expansion of the Nigerian Army and Navy and creation of the Nigeria Air Force, and established the Defence Industries Corporation in Kaduna, the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna, and a Second Recce Squadron in Abeokuta; on May 1, 1965 he was to be honoured along with then Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (1912-1966) by the then Premier of Northern Nigeria, Sir Ahmadu Bello, with gold medals of the Usmamiya order in Kaduna, but he died on the morning of that day, age 55; First Lady Aisha Buhari is a direct descendent) - https://www.thehistoryville.com/muhammadu-ribadu/

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        • 1994-03-18: new
        • 2024-12-07: revised

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