In this interview, The Conversation Africa asks political scientist Abdul-Wasi Babatunde Moshood, who has recently published research on preventing military coups in Nigeria, about what drives ...

Nigeria's former military ruler Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida ... His execution in 1986 after he was convicted of a coup plot is another major talking-point of Babangida's presidency.

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Mamman Vatsa, a Nigerian general and poet, served as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and was a member of the Supreme Military Council. He was accused of plotting a coup against Mr ...

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has strongly condemned the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers ...

At least four Nigerian soldiers were killed when suspected Islamist fighters launched coordinated attacks on two military bases in northeastern Borno State, security sources told Reuters.

"Labeling a coup an 'Igbo coup,' when people from different tribes participated, is part of the falsehood laid down so that we can call a dog a bad name to hang it multiple times," Sowore stated ...

“If you ask people , most of those top military officers knew about the coup, he [Obasanjo] came from India…how would he have not known about the coup and he came back to Nigeria from his school.