Muhammadu Buhari Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Early life== Muhammadu Buhari was born to a [[Fulani people|Fulani]] family<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/31/muhammadu-buhari-military-dictator-nigeria-new-democratic-president The Guardian: "Muhammadu Buhari: reformed dictator returns to power in democratic Nigeria" by David Smith] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305153611/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/31/muhammadu-buhari-military-dictator-nigeria-new-democratic-president |date=5 March 2017 }} 31 March 2015</ref> on 17 December 1942, in [[Daura]], a town in [[Katsina State]], Nigeria. His father was called [[wikt:mallam|Mallam]] Hardo Adamu, a [[Fula people|Fulani]] chieftain from Dumurkul in [[Mai'Adua]], and his mother, whose name was Zulaihat, had [[Hausa people|Hausa]] and [[Kanuri people|Kanuri]] ancestry.<ref name="mbuhari.ng">{{cite web|url=http://thisisbuhari.com/all-project-list/muhammadu-buhari-presidential-candidate/|title=Muhammadu Buhari Presidential Candidate|work=thisisbuhari.com|access-date=8 February 2015|archive-date=16 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116035947/http://thisisbuhari.com/all-project-list/muhammadu-buhari-presidential-candidate/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Muhammad Buhari">{{cite encyclopedia|title=Muhammad Buhari|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammadu-Buhari|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica|access-date=8 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190218031931/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammadu-Buhari|archive-date=18 February 2019}}</ref> He is the twenty-third-(23) child of his father and was named after ninth-century [[Persians|Persian]] [[Ulama|Islamic scholar]] [[Muhammad al-Bukhari]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kperogi |first1=Farooq |title=Buhari's surname not his father's name; how he dumped it |url=https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/08/15/buharis-surname-not-his-fathers-name-how-he-dumped-it/ |website=[[P.M. News]] |access-date=8 December 2021}}</ref> Buhari was raised by his mother; he was about four years old when his father died. He attended primary school in [[Daura]] and [[Mai'Adua|Mai'adua]], in 1953, [[Katsina]] Middle School, and attended Katsina Provincial Secondary School in Katsina State from 1956 to 1961 where he earned his [[West African School Certificate]]. Buhari went to the Nigerian Military Training School, Kaduna in 1963.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/notes/asiwaju-bola-ahmed-tinubu/exclusive-interview-with-gmb-buhari-speaks-to-the-sun-newspaper/409638299105506/ |title=Exclusive Interview With GMB – Buhari speaks to The Sun Newspaper |website=[[Facebook]] |access-date=23 December 2014 |archive-date=4 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204194306/https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnotes%2Fasiwaju-bola-ahmed-tinubu%2Fexclusive-interview-with-gmb-buhari-speaks-to-the-sun-newspaper%2F409638299105506%2F |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) Archives|url=https://punchng.com/tags/major-general-muhammadu-buhari-retd/|access-date=21 February 2022|website=Punch Newspapers|language=en-US}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page