Brigadier Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Opens the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way | August 1978

[@yakubuduku6062]

Note that speeches made former leaders are short, rich and brilliant whereas those made by current leaders are long, dribbled, distorted and boring.

[@KiloIndiaBravo]

Whow, I really enjoy these videos. The man in the grey suit introducing Brigadier Yar’adua to the line up is the late M T Usman (a cousin to the Yar’aduas), then Permsec Ministry of Works and Housing. After retiring he became a business man and Chairmen of various companies including Julius Berger.

[@festus0lp022]

Lol .504 peugeot cars at that time 1978 was costing around 5 .000 naira brand new. but today what can 5.000 naira do for you.i cry for nigeria.may God have mercy

[@mulldezee4034]

Wow!! men that is really crazy inflation is killing us God help us.

[@AmoseaInvestment]

​@@mulldezee4034tinubu taxation system of government can not work. He taxed too much

[@aminuauwaliayi6821]

Rayuwa kenan Allah jikan shehu

[@samuelabimbola4059]

Is D's Nigerian tradition or its standard all over the world? You construct a road then you organise a big get-together to open it.

[@Salman-sc8gr]

This is done all over d world.

[@almamybokarbirobarry780]

Your brother was a good leader rest in peace all of you

[@bolaoresanwo6411]

Which contractor built it

[@peteroboh19]

I can see a Major General who is his senior with him. Who knows the name of the Major General?

[@KiloIndiaBravo]

The Officer with the glasses is Late General M Shuwa

[@certifiedg7927]

That same highway is messed up till today

[@jaystan4597]

It's okay now

[@desman_009]

It’s 2023. It’s been renovated

[@Salman-sc8gr]

When 504 was King!

[@rhotel06]

Lagos-Ibadan since 1978? Ok ooo

[@yemiolasunk2876]

His ADC resembled Col U K Bello.

[@peterzakaria5042]

Yes that was late Lt Col UK Bello

[@ativiejonathan3705]

about 70 % of Nigerian drivers doesn't understands the Roads signs well so for accident to happen is very likely..

[@youssefcamara3916]

Merci beaucoup mon ami. To this day I don’t understand why general Abacha made a martyr out of of this man. Who by all accounts, was not the most brilliant officer’s of your late father generation. C’était une erreur très tragique. Paix à son âme.

[@adeyinkamakinde6164]

@Youssef Camara, I'm not familiar with his military record. I think he wasn't commissioned into the the army until after the Congo Peacekeeping efforts and I don't know much about his activities during the civil war. But he was good enough to have been selected for training at Sandhurst. When it comes to statesmanship then I suppose his reputation is tied in with whatever sucesses and failures the Murtala Muhammed-Obasanjo military regime had.

[@pdbone77]

@@adeyinkamakinde6164 Thanks for this, that's my late father standing on the left at 1.40mins. Thanks for this video

[@adeyinkamakinde6164]

@@pdbone77 (Then) Colonel H.O.D. Eghagha (N/398).

[@pdbone77]

@@adeyinkamakinde6164 He was the Military administrator then, Ogun state, he was a Brigadier gen then, probably one of the few officers at that rank with that appointment, I believe him and late Maj Gen Yardua where course mates.

[@adeyinkamakinde6164]

@@pdbone77 Right. He was promoted from Colonel to Brigadier the previous month (July 5, 1978) along with Buhari (N/308) and Ray Dumuje (N/103). Was he with Yar'Adua at Sandhurst? Yar'Adua was of course promoted (Lt. Col. to Brig.) over a good number of officers after Murtala's assassination.