Grannie Ngwo Elizabeth Pam flew to Enugu in search of Major Humphrey Chukwuka, the man who led her husband, Col. James Yakubu ...

Gowon became a rallying point for the officers who executed the counter-coup that ousted Major-General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi as the most senior military officer from the North. His Middle Belt ...

Gen. Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, and other Igbo officers in the retaliatory coup of July 1966, said it was not a coup but a military change in leadership, yet he perpetrated the military indiscipline ...

It was Madiebo that tranquilised Nzeogwu with words before Col. Conrad Nwawo was flown from London to complete the job. In Lagos, Gen. Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi neutralised the mutiny. In another part of ...

This perception fueled a counter-coup in July 1966, led predominantly by Northern officers, which culminated in the assassination of General Aguiyi-Ironsi and widespread reprisals against Igbos ...

Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. “In an early morning broadcast from Enugu, Ojukwu rejected Gowon’s emergence as Head of State, insisting that in the absence of Aguiyi-Ironsi, the most senior Nigerian ...