A so - called Igbo officers» coup that toppled
a corrupt civil order, led to ethnic triumphalism, which provoked the heinous Igbo pogrom in the North and a revenge coup and killings of Igbo officers in the Nigerian Army, which ignited Igbo insecurity and anger, and climaxed in the Civil War, and a defeated Biafra (1967 - 1970).
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday issued a marching
order to all
civil servants to either avoid engaging in
corrupt practices or be ready to leave the service...