Muhammadu Abdullahi Wase Explained

Muhammadu Abdullahi Wase
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Office1:Military Administrator of Kano
Term Start1:December 1993
Term End1:June 1996
Predecessor1:Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya
Successor1:Dominic Oneya
Birth Date:1948
Birth Place:Wase, Northern Region, British Nigeria
(now Wase, Nigeria)
Death Cause:Plane crash[1]

Colonel Muhammadu Abdullahi Wase (1948[2] –June 1996) was a Nigerian military administrator. He was appointed by General Sani Abacha in December 1993 administering Kano State in Northern Nigeria from December 1993 to June 1996.[3]

In June 1995, Colonel Wase said that Nigerians, more than ever before, required adequate positive enlightenment on the activities of government, and that media houses should shun irresponsible journalism, which tended to cause dissent.[4]

He died in a plane crash in Jos in 1996.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Military Officials Killed in Nigerian Plane Crash. apnews.com. 20 June 1996.
  2. Web site: Gowmna Abdullahi Wase . Rumbun Ilimi . 2019-03-21.
  3. Web site: Kano State Governors since 1967 . Kano Online . 2009-12-18.
  4. Web site: BON GENERAL ASSEMBLIES. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091230110533/http://www.broadcastnigeria.org/generalAssemblies.php. 2009-12-30. 2009-12-18. Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON).
  5. Web site: Military Officials Killed in Nigerian Plane Crash. 2020-07-02. AP NEWS.