Nigeria: The Palace Coup of November 17, 1993 Part 1
By Nowa Austin Omoigui, MDNovember 17th has had its fair share of palace coups in history. It was the day in 1954 that General Gamal Abdel Nasser assumed full powers as E...
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November 17th has had its fair share of palace coups in history. It was the day in 1954 that General Gamal Abdel Nasser assumed full powers as E...
Read moreBACKGROUNDIn the early hours of January 15, 1966, citing a laundry list of complaints against the political class, there was a military rebellion in N...
Read moreThe Governor General of Nigeria, Sir James Robertson, told me in 1960 why the British had decided to destroy democracy at its birth in this giant empi...
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Read moreA Palace coup is one in which the sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force is carried out by individuals in positions of authori...
Read moreIn the months before the August coup, Nigerians came to be familiar with routine announcements about this or that politician sentenced to jail, usuall...
Read moreUpon arrival back to Lagos from Minna, Major General Babangida returned to the Flag Staff House, located in a cul de sac on Second Avenue, Ikoyi. ...
Read moreIn Nigeria, beginning in the wee hours of December 17th, 1985 and extending for the next two weeks, over one hundred airforce, army and naval officers...
Read moreMAJOR GENERAL MAMMAN VATSAMajor General Mamman Vatsa was born on Dec 3, 1940. After attending secondary school at the Government Secondary Schoo...
Read moreFor over four and a half years - from November 17, 1993 to June 8, 1998 - Nigeria, which had been under military rule since the end of 1983, was reduc...
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