Hon aminu shehu shagari biography

This is the Biography of Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari,Turakin Sokoto, first democratically elected President of Nigeria.

Shehu Shagari was born on February 25, to the family of Magaji Aliyu and Mariamu both of Fulani origins in Northern Nigeria.

When Shehu Shagari was four years old, he was registered into a Quranic School. After that, he attended a primary school in Yabo, and later attended Sokoto middle school, from where he went to Kaduna College, a school originally created to be a training college for teachers.

After attending college, Shehu Shagari got a job as a science teacher at the Sokoto Middle School.

He later taught at Zaria Middle School after which he became the headmaster of a primary school in Argungu.

In , Shehu Shagari and Mallam Gambo Abuja jointly formed the Youth Social Circle, a political organization that operated in Sokoto.

Some Northern Elite of that time like Ahmadu Bello, Ibrahim Gusau, and Mallam Ahamdu Dabbaba supported the