The Night Ironsi Fell & His ADC Lived
The Night Nigeria Fractured: How Captain Andrew Nwankwo Escaped the July 1966 Counter-Coup A Nation on the Edge BY July 1966, Nigeria’s young military government was standing on a fault line of suspicion, fear and ethnic mistrust. The January coup that brought Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi to power had left deep scars within the armed […]
