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 ...

The next day, on July 29, the actual countercoup took place as Northern officers killed the head of state, General Johnson Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi, and the military governor of Western Region ...

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 ...

Lt-Col Adekunle Fajuyi, the first military Governor of Western Nigeria, had offered to die with his Commander-in-Chief, Major General JTU Aguiyi-Ironsi, when the counter-coup plotters came calling ...

The most important event in Nigeria in the last week has been the publication and public presentation in Abuja, of a book titled A Journey in Service: An Autobiography of Ibrahim Babangida.

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 ...

The make-up of Babangida’s Abuja crowd during the public presentation of his autobiography- ‘A Journey in Service ‘last week was in character with a leader who like ‘Maradona’ takes ...

Babangida explains convincingly that the problem was what came after. It was an Igbo man, General Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi who emerged as Head of State after the January coup. This led to ...

PAY ATTENTION: Follow us on Instagram - get the most important news directly in your favourite app! Meanwhile, the fact that then-head of state, Major General Aguiyi Ironsi, among top Igbo politicians ...

According to IBB, Ojukwu insisted that in the absence of Aguiyi-Ironsi, Brig Babafemi Ogundipe, who at that time was the most senior army officer, should be the head of state. Babangida explained ...

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 ...