Muhammadu Ribadu

Muhammadu Ribadu (born 1909 – 1 May 1965) was a Nigerian politician and former minister for Defense. The son of a district head from Adamawa's Balala district, he was educated early on at a Koranic school before proceeding to the middle school at Yola. While in Yola, he received private tutorship under a colonial officer. Afterwards, he became a teacher at the Yola middle school. After a few years teaching in Yola, he got and proceeded abroad, on a scholarship to study local government. Like a few of his colleagues who took the scholarship, he returned, and thereafter became interested in the nation's political process, he was appointed to the Northern House of Assembly in 1947 and re-elected in 1951. In 1952, he was made minister for Lands as part of an indigenous council of ministers. In 1954, he was elected the second Vice-President of NPC^{[clarification needed]} and became literary, the third northern leader behind Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa.

References

• Rosalynde Ainslie, Catherine Hoskyns, Ronald Segal; Frederick A. Praeger, Political Africa: A Who's Who of Personalities and Parties, Frederick A. Praeger, 1961

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Name	Ribadu, Muhammadu
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Date of birth	1909
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Date of death	1 May 1965
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