History: Former President muhd Buhari(GCFR) military carrier, medal awards, net-worth and leadership.

History: Former President muhd Buhari(GCFR) military carrier, medal awards, net-worth and leadership.  Military Carrier And Medal Awards In ...

History: Former President muhd Buhari(GCFR) military carrier, medal awards, net-worth and leadership. 

Military Carrier And Medal Awards

In 1962, General Buhari enrolled in the Nigerian Military Training College in Kaduna to begin his military career. From May to July 1963, he attended the Young Officers Course No. 5 at the Nigerian Military Training College in Kaduna. Major-General Buhari attended the Mons Officers Cadet iSchool in Aldershot, England, from October 1962 to January 1963 after completing his preliminary cadet training. He received his appointment as a Second Lieutenant in January 1963 and was assigned as a Platoon Commander to the 2nd Infantry Battalion in Abeokuta.

He took the Platoon Commander's Course at the then-Nigerian Military Training College in Kaduna from November 1963 to January 1964, as well as the Mechanical Transport Officer's Course at the Army Mechanical Transport School in Bordon, England, from May to June 1965. In addition, General Buhari studied at the Army War College in the United States from July 1979 to July 1980 and the Defence Services Staff College in Wellington, India, from January to November 1973.

 Since 1963, he has served in a number of Command and Staff positions. He served as the 2nd Infantry Battalion's Platoon Commander between 1963 and 1964. General Buhari also participated in the early 1960s Congo, now Zaire, conflict as a member of the 2nd Battalion of the Nigerian Army.

General Buhari served as the Lagos Garrison

 Transport Company's mechanical transport officer from January 1964 to January 1965. He was the 2nd Infantry Brigade Transport Company's Transport Company Commander from January to July 1965. Later, he was sent to the 2nd Infantry Battalion, where he served as Battalion Adjutant and then Battalion Commander from August 1965 to April 1967. From April to July 1967, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari served as the Brigade Major in the 1st Infantry Division's 2nd Sector. He served as the 3rd Infantry Brigade's Brigade Major during the Civil War from July 1967 until October 1968. 

Between November 1968 and January 1970, he served as Brigade Major/Commander of the 4 Sector Awka, and between January 1970 and December 1971, he served as Commander of the 31st Infantry Brigade. In his capacity as a staff officer, Major-General Buhari held the positions of Colonel General Staff (Col GS) in the 3rd Infantry Division Headquarters from January to September 1974 and Assistant Adjutant General in the 1st Infantry Division Headquarters from December 1971 to December 1972. He was appointed acting director of supply and transport at the headquarters of the Nigerian Army Corps of Supply and Transport in late September 1974, a position he held there until June 1975.

He was named the Military Governor of the then North-Eastern State (after known as Borno State) on the first of August 1975. In March 1976, he was named the Federal Commissioner for Petroleum and Energy, a position he maintained until June 1978. The Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the Nigerian National Oil Corporation were reorganized to establish the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) during Major-General Buhari's administration, and he served as the NNPC's first Chairman from July 1978 to June 1979. In addition, from July 1978 to June 1979, he served as the Military Secretary (Army) at Army Headquarters and a member of the Supreme Military Council.

General Buhari attended the United States Army War College prior to the Army's 1979 transfer of control to the chosen Civilian Administration. After his return to Nigeria, he served as General Officer Commanding (GOC) at the 4th Infantry Division Headquarters of the Nigerian Army from August 1980 to January 1981.

From January to October 1981, General Buhari served as the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division's GOC with its headquarters in Ibadan. Later, from November 1981 to December 31, 1983, he served as the General Officer Commanding of the 3rd Armoured Division (Jos), before taking over as Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces after the military takeover. 

He has received numerous awards. He is a recipient of the Forces Service Star, the Congo Medal, the National Service Medal, the General Service Medal, the Republic Medal, and the Loyal Service and Good Conduct Medal.

He received the second-highest honor bestowed by Nigeria in 1979—the title of Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR)—in recognition of an outstanding military career. He had, according to his citation when receiving the honor, "held creditably various command and staff appointments since 1964." He was assigned to lead a platoon at the 2nd Infantry Battalion in 1963, and from 1964 to 1970, he served as the commander of many Infantry Companies and Battalions. He was appointed a Brigade Commander in 1970, and in 1974, he was made director of supply and transport. He has equally merited the positions of adjutant of an infantry battalion, brigade major, chief of general staff, and assistant adjutant general at the first and second world wars.

Brigadier Buhari, a multifaceted military officer and statesman soldier, served as the military governor of northern Nigeria (after known as Borno State) from 1975 to 1976. In 1976, he was then named Commissioner for Petroleum.

Later, Brigadier Buhari was appointed as the organization's first Chairman, and the Ministry was renamed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. In addition to performing important duties as the Military Secretary and a member of the Supreme Military Council, he continues to serve as the Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

In 1963, Brigadier Buhari served with the Nigerian contingent of the UN Peace-Keeping Force in the Congo. He participated actively in the 1967–1970 Nigerian Civil War as well. He has been awarded with the for his bravery and ability.

He is also being given the national accolade of the Commander of the Federal Republic (C.FR.) today in appreciation of his significant contributions to national development.

Net Worth (wealth)

Buhari claimed $150,000 in cash in 2015, along with five dwellings, two mud huts, a property with 270 head of cattle, 25 sheep, five horses, and a variety of birds, stakes in three companies, two undeveloped plots of land, and two cars he had saved up.

He declared before his take over for eight(8) years in leadership as a president of Federal Republic of Nigeria. 

He's latest net worth count with the estimate of $80 million, as he serve Nigeria for 8 years. Which he decided to go back to his home village land daura and continues his life with the family.

The finalized disclosure demonstrates that he did not open any new bank accounts in addition to the one he already had at Union Bank in Kaduna, nor did his movable assets grow either domestically in Nigeria or abroad.

The number of animals on his farm has slightly decreased as a result of the number he has given away as presents during the past four years, but he has taken no loans and has no liabilities.

Civilian Leadership

In 2003 and 2007, Buhari campaigned for president of Nigeria with the backing of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), and in 2011, he did the same with the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) platform.

 He was announced as the All Progressives Congress party's presidential candidate for the 2015 general election in December 2014. Buhari defeated incumbent President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in the election. An incumbent president lost a general election for the first time in Nigerian history. He took office on May 29, 2015. Buhari won reelection in February 2019 by more than 3 million votes, defeating his closest competitor, former vice president Atiku Abubakar.

Since the administration's first term, the economy has grown at an average pace of 0.9%, the unemployment rate is at an all-time high of 23%, and millions have fallen into poverty. Buhari's perceived lack of vigor and deliberate decision-making have cost him followers since 2015.

His nephew Mamman Daura, the businessman Ismaila Isa Funtua, the politician Baba Gana Kingibe, the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, and, beginning in the latter part of his first term, Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, are among Buhari's most important advisors. Buhari has declared his preference for cabinet members seeking meetings or consultation to direct such requests through the chief of staff or the government secretary, empowering his kitchen cabinet after his second inauguration.

Ministerial positions have been mandated by law since the Fourth Republic to have a federal ethno-demographic character, with a minister representing each state of the federation.

As a result, local party officials who lack qualifications for the cabinet are nominated as ministers with political considerations playing a significant role. These political factors, as well as closeness to the president and his inner cabinet, have an impact on who gets nominated for Buhari's cabinet.

The president appointed his cabinet in August 2019, with the majority of the members being men with an average age of 60 who are political figures or close to the president. Timipre Sylva and Godswill Akpabio, two rich former Niger Delta governors who had formerly belonged to the opposition party PDP, are in the cabinet along with fourteen other retained ministers, some of whom opponents claimed had underwhelmed or had close ties to a corrupt background.

Buhari's reputation as being uncorruptible made him an appealing choice for many Nigerians.  Buhari, who had previously mobilized followers in three previous elections, took some time after assuming office to make clear that he intended to address the issues he had raised in his campaign. While the adoption of the 2016 and 2017 budgets was hampered by squabbling, the president's decision to launch his domestic policy agenda, such as the appointment of cabinet members, took six months.

Nigeria had a drop in commodity prices during Buhari's first year in power, which led to an economic downturn. Buhari visited 20 nations in search of loans to fill a revenue gap and pay for an expansionary capital expenditure. As a result, the expansionary budget allocation for financing infrastructure was postponed.

The official exchange rate and the black-market rate diverged throughout the first year of the government due to the Naira's depreciation on the black market. Due to the subsequent foreign exchange shortage, several businesses were impacted, including petroleum marketers. The president's anti-corruption reputation was jeopardized by the gap between the official rates and the black market prices, which gave well-connected people the chance to engage in arbitrage. To address the shortage of the good caused by a lack of foreign currency, the government announced an increase in the official pump price of gasoline in May 2016.

The country's GDP contracted by 1.6% in 2016, and 2017 is expected to see minimal per capita economic growth. Although the decrease in oil prices during Buhari's first and second terms as president coincided, his administration has not made a concerted attempt to diversify the sources of funding for the government.With money set aside for infrastructure projects such important highways, bridges, and power plants, the 2018 budget hinted at an expansionary fiscal policy.

A slow pace of recovery has left the nation's GDP growth lagging behind many of its continental peers since an uptick from the slump of 2016.

While government deficit spending includes a large percentage of its annual budget devoted to debt servicing, unemployment rates continue to be high and efforts to raise non-oil revenues have not improved.

Buhari, with the assistance of the governor of the Central Bank, implemented policies to increase agricultural production by encouraging private banks to lend to the industry and limiting the use of foreign exchange at official rates for the importation of locally produced food items. Both the trade minister Enemalah and the budget minister Udo Udoma, who supported liberalization, were not re-elected during his second term.

Despite critics claiming that the exchange rate regime was vulnerable to arbitrage abuses and round-tripping by traders, the government maintained flexible exchange rates until the administration's second term.

To end the strife between sedentary farmers and nomadic Fulani herdsmen, the Buhari administration instituted the divisive Ruga policy (human settlement policy). The temporarily halted initiative aimed to "create reserved communities where herders will live, grow, and tend their cattle, produce milk, and undertake other activities associated with the cattle business without having to move around in search of grazing land for their cows."

While in office, Buhari has received a lot of criticism. Despite the court granted him bail, his government received harsh condemnation in 2019 for the arbitrary treatment of US-based social activist Sowore throughout his trial. The majority of people disapproved of this action, and Sowore himself said that Buhari had invaded his personal space. As Buhari's military-like administration was a far cry from democracy, Nigeria's Newspaper Giants: PUNCH declared in December 2019 that going forward they will refer to his administration as a "regime" and thereafter address him as "General Buhari". On social media, their insistence that he was a "military dictator" was met with diverse reactions.

At an inauguration ceremony held in Eagle Square, Federal Capital Territory, on May 29, 2023, at 10AM (WAT), Buhari peacefully handed over authority to Bola Tinubu. After the handover ceremony, he left the seat of government in Abuja and, following the example of previous heads of state and presidents, traveled back to his native Katsina. There, he was greeted by state and traditional dignitaries before apparently retiring to his farm and family home in Daura.