•Senators Bamidele and Ningi Senator Opeyemi Bamidele from Ekiti Central Senatorial District has described as a “civilian coup”, claims made by Senator Abdul Ningi that the 2024 Budget passed by the Senate was padded. A furious Bamidele, who is also the Majority Leader of the upper chamber, alleged that Ningi, who represents Bauchi Central Sen...
•Tinubu The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawlle, has directed the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) to go after all the propagators calling for truncation of the constitutional government in the country, describing them as criminals and enemies of democracy who should be brought to justice. According to the minister, “some mischief m...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has refuted as false an alleged rumour of a military coup d’etat published in an online medium (not The Frontier) yesterday, Sunday, February 25. The Acting Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Tukur Gusau, disclosed this in a statement today. Gusau said the Guards Brigade has the statutory responsi...
•Troops The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has dismissed a claim of a coup in the country, describing it as a figment of imagination. There was a recent report by some platforms claiming the Guards Brigade is on high alert over “unusual movements, leading to suspicion of a coup plot in Nigeria”. It also claimed that the […]
•Troops The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Gwabin Musa has vowed that the military will go after persons advocating coup d’ ‘etat in the country. Describing such individuals as enemies of Nigeria, Musa said the law would surely catch up with them, reports The Nation. Musa insisted that the Armed Forces was on top […]
•Photo (L-R ) The leader of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, Mali’s military leader Colonel Assimi Goita and Niger’s General Abdourahmane Tchiani. The military regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced today their immediate withdrawal from the West African bloc ECOWAS, saying it has become a threat to member states. The leaders of the thr...
•IBB A former Nigerian military President, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, popularly called IBB, says he is convinced that there would not be any interference from the military again which may truncate the progress of democracy in the country. Nigeria witnessed a lot of military incursions in its politics after independence, with men in uniform ru...
Niger’s ruling military has agreed to terms and conditions of a transition back to civilian rule, and will present the plan to a regional bloc, the chief diplomat from mediator Togo announced yesterday. Speaking on Niger’s national television, Togo Foreign Minister Robert Dussey said he had reached an agreement “on the content and timing of [&...
•Bai Koroma Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma reported to police in Freetown today to be questioned over what the government has called an attempted coup at the end of November. Koroma, who led the West African nation for 11 years until 2018, arrived at around 10:00 am local time (1000 GMT) at the […]
•President Umaro Sissoco Embalo The president of Guinea-Bissau issued a decree today dissolving the parliament after an attempted coup in the West African nation. “The date of forthcoming legislative elections will be set at the opportune moment, in line with the constitution,” President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said in a communique.
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