Nigerian Military

Ike Chinyere Nwosu

Ike Chinyere Nwosu; Colonel of the Nigerian army; born November 21, 1946. Nwosu was a burly army officer reputed for his lack of finesse in the handling of state matters. Criticized for leaving no…

John Nanzip Shagaya

John Nanzip Shagaya; Soldier, administrator who served as minister of internal affairs, 1985-91 under General Ibrahim Babangida’s military regime. Shagaya was born September 2, 1943 in Langtang,…

Ofonagoro Walter Ibekwe

Ofonagoro Walter Ibekwe; government spokesman under military dictatorship of Sani Abacha, economic historian, also Minister of Information and Culture during General Ibrahim Babangida‘s…

Oladipo Diya

Diya, Donaldson Oladipo; De facto second in command to Nigeria Head of State, General Sani Abacha(1993-97) born in Odogbolu, Ogun State April 3, 1944. He is a retired soldier, lawyer and former…

Cult of the Head of State

Cult of the Head of State; was a dimension of the institutional decay of military government era, as established in some of the volumes of the Justice Oputa Panel Report .The military is a great…

Gwadabe Lawan

Gwadabe Lawan; Colonel in the Nigerian army, once Managing Director of National Shipping Line, NSL, and military governor of Niger state, after, Commander of V, National Guards. Gwadabe Lawan was…

Interventionism

Interventionism is defined as the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs[i]. Nigeria has shown the…

Ogbemudia Samuel Osaigbovo

Ogbemudia Samuel Osaigbovo; Soldier, military regime apologist and two-time governor of the defunct Mid-western Region and Bendel State with an enduring legacy, hardly surpassed by any of his…

Agwai Martin Luther

Martin Luther Agwai; Nigerian military chief appointed Chief Of Army Staff, COAS by President Obasanjo. During his tenure, Dornier 228 Nigerian Air force jet crashed on Ngokur Hills in…

Abdul Mumuni Aminu

Abdul Mumuni Aminu; Colonel in the Nigerian Army, one who personally arrested General Buhari on the coup day of August 27, 1985 that brought General Babangida to power[i]. Mumuni was the…