Sentences with phrase «nigerian military coup»
76 The telling of a significant (but failed) Nigerian military coup in the 1970s, the acting here more than compensates for the occasionally muddled narrative.
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The father of late Harun, Major General Mamman Jiya Vatsa, was a senior Nigerian Army officer and writer who was executed by the government of Major General Ibrahim Babangida on 5 March 1986 following a military tribunal death sentence for treason associated with an abortive coup.
He said, «It is sad that many Nigerians today talk glibly about the possibility of a coup or of military intervention in politics.