Even as a minor, who is among 76 persons set to be arraigned by the Nigerian Police Force for participating in the recent EndBadGovernance protest that held across the country, on Friday, collapsed before the Federal High Court in Abuja, the President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been urged to free the detainees. Making the plea […]
![A NARROW ESCAPE [30 July 1966]](https://i0.wp.com/newscount.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG-20241031-WA00061.jpg?fit=333%2C500&ssl=1 "A NARROW ESCAPE [30 July 1966]")
A NARROW ESCAPE [30 July 1966]
In July 1966, Admiral Alison Madueke was due to begin a training programme at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, UK, when the Ironsi regime was overthrown. In the following excerpt, he recounts his narrow escape from the massacres that occurred during the 1966 counter-coup: “After breakfast, Midshipmen Obianwu, Mohammed and I were taken in […]
