1975 Nigerian coup d'état
The 1975 Nigerian coup d'état was a bloodless military coup which took place in Nigeria on 29 July 1975 when a faction of junior Armed Forces officers overthrew General Yakubu Gowon (who himself took power in the 1966 counter-coup). Colonel Joseph Nanven Garba announced the coup in a broadcast on Radio Nigeria (which became FRCN in 1978). At the time of the coup, Gowon was attending the 12th Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Summit in Kampala, Uganda. The coup plotters appointed Brigadier Murtala Mohammed as head of state, and Brigadier Olusegun Obasanjo as his deputy. The coup was motivated by unhappiness of junior officers at the lack of progress Gowon had made in moving the country towards democratic rule, while Garba's role as an insider is credited with ensuring that the coup was bl
1976 Nigerian coup d'état attemptAbdullahi MohammedAudu BakoHamza AbdullahiHassan KatsinaIbrahim BabangidaList of heads of state of NigeriaList of traditional titles borne by the Heads of State of NigeriaList of wars involving NigeriaMuhammadu_BuhariNigeriaNigerian_military_juntasOlusegun_ObasanjoSani BelloShehu Musa Yar'AduaSupreme Military Council of Nigeria (1966–1979)Yakubu Gowon
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1975 Nigerian coup d'état
The 1975 Nigerian coup d'état was a bloodless military coup which took place in Nigeria on 29 July 1975 when a faction of junior Armed Forces officers overthrew General Yakubu Gowon (who himself took power in the 1966 counter-coup). Colonel Joseph Nanven Garba announced the coup in a broadcast on Radio Nigeria (which became FRCN in 1978). At the time of the coup, Gowon was attending the 12th Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Summit in Kampala, Uganda. The coup plotters appointed Brigadier Murtala Mohammed as head of state, and Brigadier Olusegun Obasanjo as his deputy. The coup was motivated by unhappiness of junior officers at the lack of progress Gowon had made in moving the country towards democratic rule, while Garba's role as an insider is credited with ensuring that the coup was bl
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The 1975 Nigerian coup d'état ...... ucceeded him as head of state.
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1975-07-29
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*Yakubu Gowonis ousted and replaced withMurtala Mohammed.
Coup succeeds.
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* Yakubu Gowon is ousted and replaced with Murtala Mohammed.
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Coup succeeds.
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The 1975 Nigerian coup d'état ...... ensuring that the coup was bl
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