Late Brigadier Musa Usman: First Governor of North Eastern Nigeria Late Brigadier MUSA USMAN (born in 1940, died 1991) was the first Governor of Northeast Nigeria (1967-1975). He was born on 3rd Feb,1940 in Enugu to a Kanuri father and Igala mother. He spent some of his time in Ibadan with his mother while his father, Usman Karagida was in far away Burma serving in a unit of the Rqyal West African Frontier Force. On his return, be moved to Zaria and enrolled Musa in the military School. Before then, Musa had attended...