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Shehu Shagari

1925 - 2018

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Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari (; 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shehu Shagari has received more than 863,682 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Shehu Shagari is the 12,384th most popular politician (down from 11,749th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Nigeria (down from 20th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Nigerian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shehu Shagari ranks 12,384 out of 19,576. Before him are Erika Steinbach, Euphemus, Ōmura Masujirō, Geoffrey II, Count of Gâtinais, Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro, and Marduk-zakir-shumi I. After him are Guillermo León Valencia, John Hay, Nicolò Contarini, Fasilides, Angelica Singleton Van Buren, and Terentius Maximus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Shehu Shagari ranks 244. Before him are Nina Lobkovskaya, Seymour Cray, Theodore Levitt, Lennart Bergelin, Philippe Jaccottet, and Ernst Jandl. After him are John Neville, Yuli Daniel, Ritwik Ghatak, Vojtěch Jasný, Néstor Rossi, and José Freire Falcão. Among people deceased in 2018, Shehu Shagari ranks 224. Before him are Luis Posada Carriles, Sergey Litvinov, Juan Bautista Agüero, Stanley Cavell, Kim Yong-chun, and Mrinal Sen. After him are Inge Borkh, Domenico Losurdo, Otis Rush, Phan Văn Khải, Morris Halle, and Cecil Taylor.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, Shehu Shagari ranks 27 out of 309. Before him are Amos Tutuola (1920), Victor Osimhen (1998), Nwankwo Kanu (1976), Nana Asmaʼu (1793), Tijani Babangida (1973), and Ibrahim Babangida (1941). After him are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977), Yakubu Gowon (1934), Tony Allen (1940), C. Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933), Murtala Mohammed (1938), and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (1954).

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Among POLITICIANS In Nigeria

Among politicians born in Nigeria, Shehu Shagari ranks 9. Before him are Olusegun Obasanjo (1937), Sani Abacha (1943), Goodluck Jonathan (1957), Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (1951), Abdulsalami Abubakar (1942), and Ibrahim Babangida (1941). After him are Yakubu Gowon (1934), C. Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933), Murtala Mohammed (1938), Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904), Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (1912), and Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi (1924).

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