- Boko Haram killed 59 pupils in boarding school attack
- Six killed, two abducted as Boko Haram attacks Borno village
- Police repelled bandits, killed scores as three villagers die
- Riot police deployed after several persoms were killed in Rivers towns
- Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari’s birth date
A generation that disregards history has neither a past nor a future, according to Robert Heinlein.
History is not intended to be disregarded. The events of the past are collected in history. When we go back in time, we think about the negative or positive occurrences that shaped those moments.
WITHIN NIGERIA highlighted five significant events that happened on February 25th in Nigeria history in an effort to raise awareness for enlightenment and educational purposes.
Boko Haram killed 59 pupils in boarding school attack
On this date, 25th of February in 2014, gunmen from terror group, Boko Haram shot and burned to death 59 pupils in a boarding school in Yobe overnight.
According to security forces and a hospital official, some of the students’ bodies were burned to ashes,”.
Police Commissioner Sanusi Rufai said of the attack on the Federal Government college of Buni Yadi, a secondary school in Yobe state, near the state’s capital city of Damaturu.
Six killed, two abducted as Boko Haram attacks Borno village
On this date, 25th of February in 2019, no fewer than six persons were killed on Christmas eve at Kwyaragilim village in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State after gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram invaded the community.
The insurgents also abducted two women. Many of the abducted girls are yet to be found till date.
Police repelled bandits, killed scores as three villagers die
On this date, 25th of February in 2022, security operatives killed two bandits who attacked Shohon-Rami village in Mashegu Local Government Area of the state.
The police team, backed by the vigilante group in the area, came as the bandits embarked on killing of the villagers.
They succeeded in killing three persons before they were roundly defeated by the police and vigilante teams.
Riot police deployed after several persoms were killed in Rivers towns
On this date, 25th of February in 2007, riot police were deployed to quell communal clashes that have claimed several lives in southern Nigeria’s restive oil-rich Ogoniland.
“We have sent anti-riot policemen to contain the violence in Bodo and Mogho in Rivers State where several people have been killed in the past four days and dozens of houses and vehicles destroyed,” the police superintendent who does not want to be named, told AFP.
Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari’s birth date
Shehu Usman Shagari was born on 25 February 1925 in Shagari to a Sunni Muslim Fulani family. Shagari was founded by his great-grandfather, Ahmadu Rufa’i. He was raised in a polygamous family, and was the sixth child born into the family. His father, Aliyu Shagari, was the Magajin Shagari (magaji means village head).
Shagari started his education in a Quranic school and then went to live with relatives at a nearby town, where from 1931 to 1935 he attended Yabo elementary school. In 1936–1940, he went to Sokoto for middle school, and then from 1941 to 1944 he attended Barewa College.
Between 1944 and 1952, Shagari matriculated at the Teachers Training College, in Zaria, Kaduna, Nigeria. From 1953 to 1958, Shagari got a job as a visiting teacher at Sokoto Province. He was also a member of the Federal Scholarship Board from 1954 to 1958.
Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari (listen) GCFR (25 February 1925 – 28 December 2018), titled Turakin Sokoto from 1962, was the first democratically elected President of Nigeria, after the transfer of power by military head of state General Olusegun Obasanjo in 1979 giving rise to the Second Nigerian Republic.
