1979 October 1: Alhaji Shehu Shagari was sworn in as president.

Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari GCFR,born February 25, 1925.He was the first and only President of Nigeria’s Second Republic (1979–1983), after the handover of power by General Olusegun Obasanjo’s military government, Shagari also served seven times in a ministerial or cabinet post as a federal minister and federal commissioner from 1958–1975. He was made the Turaki of the Fula Sokoto Caliphate in 1962 by the Sultan of Sokoto Siddiq…