A History of Military Coups in Nigeria

Within 10 years, that is from January 16, 1966, to February 13, 1976, Nigeria experienced four military coups. Three of them were bloody. Only one was bloodless.
This episode aims to look at the history of military coups in Nigeria from January 15, 1966, to the return of Democracy on May 29, 1999.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:56 January 15, 1966, Military Coup
05:26 July 29, 1966, Military Coup
07:08 July 29, 1975, Military Coup
09:14 February 13, 1976, Military Coup
12:51 December 31, 1983, Military Coup
15:25 August 27, 1985, Military Coup
17:26 Mamman Vatsa’s 1986 Trial
18:55 April 22, 1990, Gideon Orkar Coup
20:54 The Abacha Years
24:49 The Birth of the Fourth Republic
26:30 Next Episode

[@kelechukwuanozyk7605]

The military was brutal. A lot of horrible things have happened in Nigeria especially during the military

[@jay-n_23]

Excuse me, could you please tell me where you got that rare image of Nzeogwu standing behind Ironsi and in front of Ojukwu? Thank you.

[@HistoryVille]

Share the time stamp...

[@jay-n_23]

@@HistoryVille 0:07 just as the video started

[@HistoryVille]

No. That was not Nzeogwu. That was Aguiyi-Ironsi's Aide-de-Camp.

[@ekusondebango3568]

@@HistoryVille Correct. That was Andrew Nkwankwo of the Airforce. He served as one of Ironsi's ADCs along with Sani Bello.

[@jay-n_23]

@@HistoryVille my bad, looked like Nzeogwu in my eyes.

[@qadarsaeed]

Nigeria is great country and super power with in the continent of Africa

[@ucol2068]

Story

[@adesege1025]

No Igbo man was killed in that first coup and that is the problem of Nigeria till date. Leaving the politicians then, Nigeria would have been great now

[@amakaopara6016]

It was a revolution and never a coup

[@charlesacha7783]

You are very wrong. The whole corruption in Nigeria then was by Akintola, Okotiebo, and Saduana. The crisis was in the West, and the Balewa government sanctioned the killing of the TIV indigenous population.

[@adesege1025]

@@charlesacha7783 the corruption was only concentrated in the west akintola, Niger delta okotie ebo and the north sardauna just as the east is not corrupt today. Dey mumu yourself? Azikiwe the president was corrupt free, they have to give him first hand information to travel out when they want to stage the coup. There is corruption that time but it was minimal, we would have learnt and improve on democracy by then and develop our regions by now. Military alter the regional system that is making us developing on the high speed then. All military government after that was from one disaster to another and that is why we are where we are today.