Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ikeja Cantonment is a large Nigerian Armed Forces installation in the northern part of Lagos. It is situated north of the city centre near the districts of Isolo and Onigbongo. [1] During the 1966 Nigerian counter-coup of July 28-29, 1966, Lt. Col. M. O. Nzefili said there was a reported massacre at the camp. [2]
Ikeja Cantonment was a large Nigerian Army living and storage area in the city of Lagos, situated north of the city centre near the districts of Isolo and Onigbongo. [1] In January 2002, the base was being used to store a large quantity of "high calibre bombs", as well as other sundry explosives. [2]
The military governor of Lagos State was then Brigadier General Raji Rasaki. Before the creation of the Ojo local government out of the old Badagry local government, the area was adjudged the most populous in the country according to the National Population Census conducted in Nigeria in 1991. According to the 2006 census, the population of the ...
Jaji is the site of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji.The college opened in May 1976 with two senior officers' courses based on a curriculum derived from that of British Army Staff College, Camberley.
The Nigerian Army traces its history to Lieutenant John Hawley Glover's Constabulary Force, which was largely composed of freed Hausa slaves in 1863. [6] The Constabulary Force was established with the primary goal of protecting the Royal Niger Company and its assets from constant military incursions by the neighboring Ashanti Empire. [7]
On 1 June 1958, the British Army Council in London relinquished control of Nigerian Military Force (NMF) to the Nigerian Government. Upon its creation, the ministry was given responsibility over the two branches of the military in existence at that time the Royal Nigerian Army and the Royal Nigerian Navy and later oversaw the founding of the ...
A cantonment (/ k æ n ˈ t ɒ n m ən t /, / k æ n ˈ t oʊ n m ən t /, or UK: / k æ n ˈ t uː n m ən t /) is a military quarters. [1] In India and other parts of South Asia , a cantonment refers to a permanent military station (a term from the British Raj ). [ 1 ]
On 15 January 1966, a group of young military officers overthrew Nigeria's government, ending the short-lived First Nigerian Republic.The officers who staged the coup were mostly young soldiers , led by Kaduna Nzeogwu, [2] and they assassinated several northerners, including Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa, Northern Region Premier Ahmadu Bello, Western Region Premier Ladoke Akintola, finance ...