15th JAN 1966...Know The Truth...And It Shall Set Us Free..We Are All Humans Only Seperated By Religion..Tribe And Idealogy..MUST READ.

Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu

Major Ifeajuna..An Astute Sports Man..His Image dons the back of exercise book{High Jumper}

Major Adewale Ademoyega

Maj. Timothy Onwuatuegwu {At Old Age}



Middle...Maj.Gen..Aguiyi Ironsi...Military Head Of State
1st Left...Lt.Col Adekunle Fajuyi...Military Governor Western Nigeria
2nd Right Lt.Col Odumegwu Ojukwu...Military Governor Eastern Nigeria
2nd Left...Major..Hassan Katsia...Military Governor Northern Nigeria
2nd Right .Lt.Col. David Ejoor...Military Governor Mid West Nigeria
The 1966 Nigerian coup d'état began on January 15, 1966, when mutinous Nigerian soldiers led by Kaduna Nzeogwu and Emmanuel Ifeajuna killed 22 people^[1]including the Prime Minister of Nigeria, many senior politicians, many senior Army officers (including their wives), and sentinels on protective duty.^[2][3] The coup plotters attacked the cities of Kaduna, Ibadan, and Lagos while also blockading the Niger and Benue River within a two-day span of time before the coup plotters were subdued. The General Officer Commanding, of the Nigerian Army, Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi then used the coup as a pretext to annex power, ending Nigeria's nascent democracy. It was one of the events that led to the Nigerian Civil War.

The Background Of The Coup:-

In August 1965 a group of Army majors 

 The list below shows the officers involved on both sides of the coup as well as their ethnic backgrounds.

Conspirators

• Maj. Kaduna Nzeogwu (Igbo)
• Maj. Adewale Ademoyega (Yoruba), author of "Why we struck"
• Maj. Emmanuel Ifeajuna (Igbo)
• Maj. Timothy Onwuatuegwu (Igbo)
• Maj. Chris Anuforo (Igbo)
• Maj. Humphrey Chukwuka (Igbo)
• Maj. Don Okafor (Igbo)
• Capt. Ogbo Oji (Igbo)

Participants

• Capt. Emmanuel Nwobosi (Igbo)
• Capt. G. Adeleke (Yoruba)
• Lt. Fola Oyewole (Yoruba), author of "The reluctant rebel"
• Lt. R. Egbiko (Esan)
• Lt. PM Okocha (Igbo)
• Lt. Tijani Katsina(Hausa/Fulani)
• Lt. O. Olafemiyan (Yoruba)
• Capt. Gibson Jalo (Bali)
• Capt. Swanton (Middle Belt)
• Lt. Dag Warribor (Ijaw)
• 2nd Lt. Saleh Dambo (Hausa)
• 2nd Lt. John Atom Kpera (Tiv)
• Capt. Ben Gbulie (Igbo)

Began plotting a coup d'état against incumbent Prime Minister Abubakar Balewa. The coup was planned because according to the majors, the men at the helm of affairs were running Nigeria aground with their corrupt ways. Ministers under them were living flamboyant lifestyles and looting public funds at the expense of ordinary citizens.

The president of Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe left the country in late 1965, first for Europe, then on a cruise to the Caribbean. Under the law, the Senate president, Nwafor Orizu, became acting president during his absence and had all the powers of the president.

Late in the morning of January 15, 1966, at a meeting with some local journalists in Kaduna seeking to find out what was going on, it was brought to Major Nzeogwu's attention that the only information about the events then was what was being broadcast by the BBC. Nzeogwu was surprised because he had expected a radio broadcast of the rebels from Lagos. He is said to have "gone wild" when he learnt that Emmanuel Ifeajuna in Lagos had not made any plans whatsoever to neutralize Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi who was the Commander of the Army. Therefore, Nzeogwu hurriedly drafted the following speech which was broadcast on Radio Kaduna sometime around 12 a.m:

Acting President Nwafor Orizu made a nationwide broadcast, after he had brief President Nnamdi Azikiwe on the phone the decision of the cabinet, announcing the cabinet's "voluntary" decision to transfer power to the armed forces. Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi then made his own broadcast, accepting the "invitation". On January 17, Major General Ironsi established the Supreme Military Council in Lagos and effectively suspended the constitution.

CASUALTIES:-

Government officials

• Prime Minister Abubakar Balewa † (Baggara)
• Premier Ahmadu Bello † (Fulani)
• Premier Samuel Akintola † (Yoruba)
• Finance Minister Festus Okotie-Eboh † (Itsekiri)
• Gen. Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi (Igbo)
• Brig. Samuel Ademulegun † (Yoruba)
• Brig. Zakariya Maimalari † (Kanuri)
• Col. Kur Mohammed † (Kanuri)
• Col. Ralph Shodeinde † (Yoruba)
• Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon (Ngas)
• Lt. Col. Abogo Largema † (Kanuri)
• Lt. Col. James Pam † (Berom)
• Lt. Col. Arthur Unegbe † (Igbo)
• Lt. Col. Conrad Nwawo (Igbo)
• Maj. Hassan Katsina (Fulani)

CIVILIANS:-

• Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
• Premier Ahmadu Bello
• Premier Samuel Ladoke Akintola
• Finance Minister Festus Okotie-Eboh
• Ahmed Ben Musa (Senior Assistant Secretary for Security)
• Hafsatu Bello
• Mrs Latifat Ademulegun
• Zarumi Sardauna
• Ahmed Pategi (Government driver)

POLICE:-

• Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke (assisted Nzeogwu in the attack on the Sardauna's lodge and according to the Police report was murdered by Nzeogwu)^[2][3]
• PC Yohana Garkawa
• Lance Corporal Musa Nimzo
• PC Akpan Anduka
• PC Hagai Lai
• philip lewande

The Implications Of The 1966 Coup:-

ON the coup: On January 15, 1966, they struck and turned the weapons which we issued to them to defend the country, on the government and the leaders that issued the weapons to them. In the process, they killed the Prime minister of the country; they killed the premier of the West; they killed the premier of the North. 

They were about to kill the premier of the East but what saved Dr Michael Okpara was that Archbishop Macarious, the president of Cyprus, was his guest that night and probably they wouldn’t want war between Cyprus and Nigeria. 

On the other hand they could not kill Chief Dennis Osadebey because there was no Army in Benin at the time of the coup and so Osadebey managed to escape. 

They also killed Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, the Federal Minister of Finance. 

They also killed some members of their own group. For example, Brigadier Maimalari was innocently killed. 

My close friend, Colonel Arthur Unegbe was also killed. He was in charge of the Armoury and because he was reluctant to release the Armoury to them, they shot and killed him in his house.   

Since then, Nigeria has never been the same and Nigeria has never attained anything near the dreams of the founding fathers and nationalists and fought for independence of the nation.

Ademoyega{One Of The Major Conspirators} described the 1966 coup as a nationalist one motivated by idealism and a desire to tackle corruption and end the anarchy and mindless violence that was raging then. He dwelt more on the rationale for the coup in his memoir 

�Why We Struck.� 

There were however other accounts about the conception and execution of the coup which tended to deviate from the way and manner Ademoyega saw their 1966 coup. Some Nigerians were of the view that had the First Republic not been truncated with that coup, perhaps Nigeria�s democracy would have purged itself of its alleged bad features. Some others said the coup was racial; that it was an Igbo affair and that the only Yoruba officer involved, Ademoyega, was roped in. 

President Olusegun Obasanjo is one person who would insist there was no rationale for the 1966 coup. 

The late Ademoyega himself said this much in his memoir. He recalled that he was greeted with the rudest shock of his life when he visited the then General Obasanjo at Dodan Barracks, Lagos in February 1976, after he took over as head of state following the death of General Murtala Muhammed in another military coup on February 13, 1976. According to Ademoyega, Obasanjo assembled all the staff in his office and parading him before them he lampooned him and lectured him on how their �unpatriotic act� plunged Nigeria into civil war. 

He passed on recently at the age of 74 after a protracted illness..He was from Ode Remo...Survived by Wife and Four Children


Read more: http://nm.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=9670#ixzz4sYkZrGJe

Some Of The Cause Of The Civil War:-

Well, the Army took over and they continued to blunder. They continued to do what they were trained to do; that is to destroy; to kill and to loot. Then the quarrel between two Lieutenant Colonels – Ojukwu and Yakubu Gowon – eventually led the country to a civil war. Ojukwu said he was senior to Gowon and that Gowon cannot be the head of state when he (Ojukwu) was a governor.

Courtesy Eye Witness:- Mbazulike Amechi:-

Chief Mbazulike Amechi, popularly known as ‘The boy is good’ was a first republic parliamentarian and first post Independence Minister of Aviation. He was a strong member of the defunct Zikist Movement and since the first bloody military coup on January 1966, which sacked the politicians, Amechi has been living in his community, Ukpor in Nnewi South local government area. He spoke on his experience:

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/january-15-1966-coup-why-they-called-it-an-igbo-coup-mbazulike-amechi/

HERBERT MACAULAY....Nationalist..Freedom Fighter..Legal Luminary...MEET HIM.

Herbert Macaulay
During the 1920s, a period in Nigerian history associated with the beginning of political agitation for self-rule, Macaulay became a leading figure in the first generation of Nigerian Nationalists.
 In 1921, Macaulay passionately led protests in Lagos over water rates, land issues, and mishandling of the railway finances. 
In 1922, he helped a Lagos chief in his legal battle with the colonial government who had forcefully taken some of his land for government purposes. The highest court in England heard the case and returned the land to the chief. This victory inspired Macaulay to establish in 1923 Nigeria’s first political party, the Nigerian National Democratic Party whose members were the first to sit in the Legislative Council.
The Nigerian National Democratic Party dominated Nigerian politics throughout the 1920s until the late 1930s. However in 1934, the NNDP lost its dominant position to newly organized student groups such as the Nigerian Youth Movement.
 In order to avoid the demise of the party, Macaulay’s NNDP joined forces with the Nigerian Youth Movement to form the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons, NCNC. The NCNC led by Macaulay was not a political party, it was a nationalist organization designed to advocate for an independent Nigeria.
 Herbert Macaulay did not live to see the attainment of independence in 1960. 
He died in Lagos at the age of 81 on May 7, 1946.

WICKEDNESS...Man arrested for faking own kidnap to extort N1M from wife!

A 49-year-old man has been arrested in Delta State for faking his own kidnap so as to extort money from his wife.

The police in Delta State have arrested a 49-year-old man, Clement Silver, after he allegedly organized his own kidnap to extort the sum of N1 million from his wife, Delta News reports.

It was gathered that Silver who hails from Benue State, had connived with one Sunday Kibechukwu, to fake his own kidnap with the intention of extorting the amount from his wife so as to invest in his lotto business which has been experiencing hiccups in recent times.

Silver who lives at Odozi Street in Agbor area of the state, was retrenched from his security job with the UBA in Agbor and decided to set up the sports betting business but when the business was not booming as he had expected, he decided to kidnap himself so as to get money from his wife who is into poultry business.

He then organized with Kibechukwu to kidnap him and then called his wife to pay up the ransom before he would be released, but luck ran out on them when some members of the Agbor Gha-Ihun security outfit, a local vigilante in the community, arrested them at their hideout after someone spotted him.

During his interrogation, Silver confessed to the crime, saying he was forced to take the measure with the intention of making his wife pay the ransom so he would revive his business.

Silver explained that after he was sacked from his security work, he has been actively involved in the lottery and betting business while his wife runs a flourishing poultry business.

He confessed to hatching the plan with Kibechukwu and had the intention of paying his wife back. He said he knew his wife would not give him the money if he asked her.

His accomplice, Kibechukwu, also confessed to the crime but said Silver lured him into the deal, stating that he assured him he would return the money to the wife afterward.

Kibechukwu who hails from Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State, said Silver had promised to give him N10,000 to treat an injury he sustained while working at a bakery in Boji-Boji Owa.

After the fake kidnap, Kibechukwu contacted Silver’s wife and demanded a ransom of N1 million which was to be dropped along Benin/Asaba expressway in Umunede area of the state.

The woman, however, pleaded with the suspects, stating she would pay N300,000 but they refused to take the money and were spotted at their hideout later which led to their arrest.

Nudist explains why she wants to have sex with Floyd Mayweather...MAHEEDA AT IT AGAIN.

Maheeda desires a man of strength and determination, some of the attributes she sees in the super welterweight champ.

Maheeda has a clear image of how it will feel to have sex with Floyd Mayweather, an experience she imagines will be great for both of them.

She disclosed interest in the boxer after his bout with Irish opponent, Conor McGregor. His victory against the latter allowed him pocket a sum of £78 million but Maheeda isn't all about the money.

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Maheeda is popular for her provocative style of dressing.

 (Press)

Explaining why she is smitten by the boxing champ, the nudist told Punch News' Sunday Scoop that she thinks Mayweather has the demeanor of one who is good in bed.

“Mayweather is the type of man I like. I like them strong, determined and focused, and he looks like a man that would know how to treat a woman well in bed.

"Contrary to what people think, I’m not after him for his money, I just want him to give me some good loving. And I’m sure he would also enjoy the experience with me,” she said.

Maheeda, who is known for her provocative comments seems to have a knack for controversies.

One of such was her remark in a chat with Galaxy TV asking the government to legalize prostitution so as to 'positively' affect the lives of the citizens.

CAUGHT IN THE ACT..Nigerian Yahoo-Boy jailed in the UK for fraud!

Alexander Akinyele will spend the next two years in jail in the UK

 (Mail Online)A Nigerian Internet fraudster has been sentenced to a jail term of two years and four months by a court in the United Kingdom.

A Nigerian man, Alexander Akinyele, said to be a notorious Internet fraudster popularly called Yahoo-Boy, has been found guilty and sentenced to jail for two years and four months by a Preston Crown Court in the United Kingdom.

Mail Online reports that the 37-year-old Akinleye had pleaded guilty to 10 fraud offences bordering on a Computer Misuse Act Offence and possession of a false ID with intent to commit a crime.

The fraudster was caught after he allegedly threw a wallet full of bogus credit cards out of his window when NCA officers arrived to arrest him at his house on Doncaster Place, Barrow-in-Furness.

Mail reports that when NCA officers arrived at Akinyele’s home in August 2016 after he had been monitored for months, he threw a wallet containing eight fraudulent credit and store cards and a forged driving license out of a window.

Subsequent NCA investigations revealed he was in possession of 500 valid usernames and passwords for online Sky accounts and the same number of BT accounts which he had bought on the internet.

During a search of Akinyele’s house, NCA officers found he had also stolen several peoples’ personal details, including those of a 74-year-old man, in order to set up bank and credit card accounts and to buy access to Netflix and Argos.

While sentencing him, Judge Heather Lloyd described Akinyele’s criminal activity as 'a persistent and serious offence.'

NCA officer Andrew Shorrock had earlier told the court:

“Akinyele used other people’s identities for financial gain, including that of a 74-year-old man. When Akinyele finally had to accept responsibility himself, he resorted to really quite desperate measures, throwing evidence out of the window.

The effect of ID fraud on victims who are often the most vulnerable in our society can last for a long time. But there are simple steps you can take to reduce your chances of being a victim."

Akinyele is not the first Nigerian to be jailed in the UK over fraud cases including credit card fraud, love scams and other sundry crimes, further denting the image of the country.

Courtesy:- Pulseng

IN BENUE...Angry IDPs block vehicles loaded with “stolen” relief materials.

The protesters overpowered the security guards at the camp, and blocked the camp entrance to prevent the vehicles from moving out with the materials.

Thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) being accommodated at the International Market Camp, Makurdi on Tuesday protested alleged diversion of relief materials by camp officials.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protest started when a truck, 2 Hilux vans, a bus and a saloon car loaded with relief materials from the camp warehouse, were about to drive out of the camp.

A NAN correspondent, who was at the camp, reports that the protesters overpowered the security guards at the camp, and blocked the camp entrance to prevent the vehicles from moving out with the materials.

The visibly angry protesters sang songs which accused camp officials of diverting relief materials and abandoning them to die of hunger.

Efforts to confirm where the items were being taken did not, however, yield fruits as the drivers of the vehicles and their team members, refused to speak with NAN.

A cross section of the IDPs, who spoke with NAN, said that they were not given any food items “for the past three days”.

Mr James Tarkende, an IDP, told NAN that the IDPs had been left while the materials were being loaded to unknown destinations.

“When Gov Samuel Ortom and the Tor Tiv, Prof. James Ayatse, visited us, they told us that nobody should divert materials out of the camp that is why we are protesting.

“In this camp, only few people sleep on mattresses, but we are not complaining. We are suffering, but because of the situation at hand, we understand with the government. But the camp officials have gone too far this time.

“This is not the first time they are doing this; most times, they do it in the night.”

Another IDP, Mrs. Judith Audu, said that the officials were treating them like slaves.

She urged those in charge to closely monitor what was being given to the to IDPs so that government officials would not take advantage of others’ misfortune to enrich themselves.

When contacted, Commissioner for Water Resources and Environment, Dr. Joseph Utsev, who is a member of the committee on flood, said that government would investigate the incident.

Utsev, who was also at the scene of the first protest few days ago, expressed shock that such diversions could take place.

NAN reports that the Benue Government had, on Monday, removed the camp manager over allegations of irregularities.