State Creation & Power: How Murtala’s 1976 Gamble Rewired Nigeria
A Nation in Need of Reset IN February 1976, Nigeria was not merely undergoing administrative reform; it was being reimagined. General Murtala Ramat Mohammed, barely six months into power, redrew the country’s political map with a decisiveness that has rarely been matched since. Seven new states were created, Abuja was designated as the Federal Capital […]
