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‘Igbo dominated the officers’ corps. As there were many prominent Igbo officers in the army, it was wrongly perceived that Igbo people organised the coup’
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By Favour Ulebor ABUJA — The Federal Government has dismissed claims circulating on social media that Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) backed the recent failed coup attempt in Niger Republic. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Sola Enikanolaiye, described the claims as baseless, irresponsible and a deliberate attempt to misinform […]
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Several of the rebelling soldiers had been killed. Two security sources confirmed that the base had been retaken
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Mutinying soldiers led armed clashes in Niger, alarming residents, but the ruling junta said it had largely wrested back control
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This is General Yakubu Gowon, PhD, (91), on page 201 of his autobiography titled My Life of Duty & Allegiance: “On impulse, I called the airport at Ikeja to instruct Major Paul Dickson who oversaw the airport to send a helicopter to Ibadan to evacuate the Supreme Commander.” This was hours after the countercoup of July […]
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His words: “Anybody thinking about planning a coup is wasting their time. Even the civilians in Nigeria will have taken them down. So I think it was just foolhardy for them to have done what they are trying to do or what they wanted to do.
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Separately, six civilians are on trial this week at Abuja’s Federal High Court for their alleged role in the plot.
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The court martial over last year’s foiled coup plot in Nigeria will resume on May 8, a spokesman for the country’s Defence Headquarters told AFP on Monday.
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The FG alleged that they acted “in a bid to further a political ideology which may seriously destabilise the constitutional structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”.
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They were further alleged to have had prior knowledge of a planned treasonable act involving one Colonel Ma’aji and others, but failed to alert the appropriate authorities
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