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According to Nigerian historian Max Siollun, "Military coups and military rule (which began as an emergency aberration) became a seemingly permanent feature of Nigerian politics." [40] The abundance of natural resources have also been cited as a reason for the prevalence of military coups in Nigeria's history. [41]
His rule was the longest serving peaceful administration typified as the military off dictatorship of the 20th century. Babangida promised a return of democracy when he seized power, but he ruled Nigeria for eight years, when he temporarily handed power to an interim head of state, Ernest Shonekan, in August 1993. [8]
Nigerian Foreign Policy Under Military Rule, 1966–1999. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-97881-5; Dowding, Keith (13 August 2014). The Selection of Ministers Around the World. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-63445-4; Falola, Toyin (2004). Economic Reforms and Modernization in Nigeria, 1945–1965. Kent State University Press.
With Nigeria under the control of a military dictatorship following the 1966 Nigerian coup d'état, other coups continued to take place. [2] General Ibrahim Babangida, the head of the military juntas beginning in 1985, was forced out of power in 1993 due to the riots throughout the country following his decision to cancel the election. [2]
The 1975 Nigerian coup d'état was a bloodless military coup which took place in Nigeria on 29 July 1975 [1] [2] 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 ...
When the military took control of the government, they established measures to impose order and discipline within the country. One of those measures was the War Against Indiscipline, a comprehensive program to correct many social ills that the new military ruling class perceived to afflict Nigeria.
Sani Abacha GCFR ((listen ⓘ); (20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian military dictator and statesman who ruled Nigeria with an iron-fist as military head of state from 1993 following a palace coup d'état until his death in 1998. [1] [2] Abacha's seizure of power was the last successful coup d'état in Nigerian military history.
The 1985 Nigerian coup d'état was a military coup which took place in Nigeria on 27 August 1985 [1] [2] when a faction of mid-level Armed Forces officers, led by the Chief of Army Staff Major-General Ibrahim Babangida, overthrew the government of Major General Muhammadu Buhari (who himself took power in the 1983 coup d'état). [3]