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    Shehu Shagari

    President of Nigeria from 1979 to 1983

    Shehu Usman Aliyu ShagariGCFR (Hausa pronunciationⓘ; 25 February 1925 – 28 December 2018) was a Nigerian politician who was the first democratically elected president of Nigeria, after the transfer of power by military head of state General Olusegun Obasanjo in 1979, which gave rise to the Second Nigerian Republic.[2]

    An experienced politician, he briefly worked as a teacher before entering politics in 1951; and was elected into the House of Representatives in 1954.

    At various times between 1958 through independence of Nigeria in 1960 and 1975, he held a cabinet post as a federal commissioner or as a federal minister. As president, Shagari presided over the mass deportation of West African migrants in 1983, which primarily impacted Ghanaian migrants in Nigeria.[3]

    Early years

    Shehu Usman Shagari was born on 25 February 1925 [4] in Shagari to a Sunni MuslimFulani family.

    The town of Shagar