Balewa in a sentence

The gory usurpation of the civilian regime of Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa's administration had taken place six months earlier in which Balewa and other top government functionaries, especially of northern Nigerian extraction, were murdered.

Obi later headed for the Tafawa Balewa Square, where a campaign rally was held with many of his supporters and party faithful in attendance.

A play on the life and times of Nigeria’s first Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, is to be staged in January, according to Ola Awakan, the playwright.

He added, “So, you see why it is important that we protect the community of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University and its integrity.

Many people might have heard when Prime Minister Balewa announced to a bewildered nation on Thursday, 13 January 1966, that the Federal Government had no interest in “interfering” in the Western Region.

Meanwhile, thousands of supporters of the Governor throng the Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa International Airport, to welcome him on his return to the State after the Supreme Court’s judgement which validated his election.

Tragedy struck Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi State, as a female student of the tertiary institution slumped and died.

But Mr Balewa was murdered during Nigeria's first military coup on January 15, 1966.

But pundits believe that his political clout to win an election is limited to his primary constituency of Bogoro, Dass and Tafawa Balewa LGAs.

I was young when Balewa was killed.

The governor gave the explanation when his supporters from the Dass, Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro Local Government Areas, where Dogara represents, paid him solidarity visit at the Government House, Bauchi, last Tuesday.

The late Prime Minister, Sir Tafawa Balewa, went to study in Katsina.

Well at my age, now 82, I am very familiar with the previous federal government activities in Nigeria starting from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa who was prime minister.

The nationalist said he was speaking for other demised prominent nationalists of Nigeria, including; Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ahmadu Bello, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Obafemi Awolowo, Dennis Osadebay, Aminu Kanu, Herbert Macaulay, Nwafor Orizu and a host of others.

A movie adaptation of the literary work of Nigeria's first elected Prime Minister, Sir Tafawa Balewa, known as "Shehu Umar", is set to hit the cinema in Berlin, Germany.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Mr Monday Kennedy, told the court that the accused persons, who reside in Tafawa Balewa area Sokoto metropolis, intentionally conspired and rode on a donkey belonging to one Faruk Koko of Mabera area.

He also orchestrated his movement from Lokoja to his home town at Tafa Balewa Local Government Area in Bauchi State where both of them were arrested.

He also reaffirmed his resolve to run in the 2019 general elections before a mammoth crowd at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium in Bauchi where he flagged off the distribution of tractors and other farm implements to farmers.

He dared anyone who has boasted of retiring him from politics to meet him on election ground at Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal Constituency.

In simple language, the man who was calling the shots was in Kaduna and the man who was ruling was down South and nobody ever looked at Balewa as the real ruler of the North.