Archives Tag: Military Coup
ThrowBack Thursday: The Murtala Muhammed’s Coup of 1975
April 19, 2022
The Nigeria-Biafran War had just ended 5 years earlier before the 1975 coup. The coup was indirectly instigated by one of the firebrand officers – General Murtala Mohammed – who helped General Yakubu Gowon himself achieve a successful counter-coup back in July 1966. Years down the line, it appeared to the impatient military brass … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday: The Murtala Muhammed’s Coup of 1975
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Throwback Thursday: The Biafra Declaration (1967)
April 19, 2022
“Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the authority, and pursuant to the principles, recited above, do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria together with her continental shelf and territorial waters, shall henceforth be an independent sovereign state of … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: The Biafra Declaration (1967)
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