•Defence Headquarters On October 18, 2025, the Sahara Reporters reported that some military officers ranging in rank from captain to brigadier general were arrested by the Defence Intelligence Agency for allegedly holding secret meetings to topple the government. The online news medium also linked the cancellation of the October 1 Independence...
•Tinubu An interim investigation report into the alleged coup plot against President Bola Tinubu’s government has revealed that a clandestine network of military officers coordinated by an Army Colonel (name withheld) had planned the takeover, with funding, recruitment, and operational planning traced directly to him. The report, sighted by ou...
•A motorbike rider drives past the Amazone statue in Cotonou Five people are lined up before Chantal Dagah’s newsstand in Benin’s economic capital, Cotonou — a sure sign of trouble. Traffic at her kiosk, just steps away from several government ministries that were guarded by tanks the day after the coup attempt, usually comes in […]...

