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General News of Wednesday, 11 January 2023

Source: www.mynigeria.com

I was an orphan; I did not know my father - Buhari reveals

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that he was an orphan from a young age and he did not know his father.

Addressing supporters during the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign rally in Damaturu, Yobe state on Tuesday, January 10, Buhari noted that he spent nine years in a boarding school learning to acquire an education.

According to him, education helped him to get enlisted into the Nigerian Army.

He urged the residents to ensure their children go to school because everything they have in this world can be taken away from them except the knowledge they have acquired.

"Make sure you send your children to school and make them understand that whatever you have in this world can be taken away from you except the knowledge you have in your head."

"I was an orphan; I did not know my father. I spent nine years in a boarding school and because of [my] education, I was enlisted into the Nigerian Army."

"I want you to strengthen your faith, try your best to uphold the children and family God has entrusted to you. Do not betray that trust," Buhari said in Hausa.

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