Brigadier general adeboye obasanjo biography
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There have been a lot of requests for me to post the full text of Lt-General T.Y. Danjuma’s interview with the Nigerian Guardian regarding his role in the July 1966 coup and the arrest/death of the then Head of State Maj-Gen Aguiyi-Ironsi. Here is the interview….
SUNDAY GUARDIAN-17th february,2008
You were quoted as saying that your memoirs would be one grenade of a book, why?
You know; there are so many versions of some the critical events that took place over the years in which I was involved. Some of the versions are sanitized; some of them are slightly inaccurate, which I will endeavour to correct. And in correcting them, there will be a few explosions. You know what a grenade is- it explodes.
Unfortunately, for me, each time I pick up my notes and try to write, I have to relive some of those very tense periods and I am so worked up. So, what I have decided to do is oral history- tell the story to a writer who’ll record, transcribe and so on and the book will bear his name and mine.
Will you, in the book correct, for example, the many sto
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Federal Nigerian Army Blunders of the Nigerian Civil War - Part 10
continued from http://www.dawodu.com/omoigui32.htm
By
Nowa Omoigui
Nowa_o@yahoo.com
OWERRI, 1969 [APPENDIX - CONTINUED]
Notes on key commanders during the siege of Owerri
Biafran Colonel Joseph Oseloka Achuzia (rtd) (a.k.a. “Hannibal”, “Air Raid”) never served in the Nigerian Army. For that reason there are no Nigerian Army records in his name. He did write a book titled, “Requiem Biafra” (Fourth Dimension Publishers, 1986).
He says he originally served as a conscript in the British Army in Korea under the assumed name “George Taylor.” However, Commonwealth war records that I have reviewed identify “George Taylor” as Brigadier George Taylor, Brigade Commander of the 28th British Commonwealth Brigade - one of the two Brigades in the Commonwealth division during the Korean War. ‘George Taylor’ was definitely a Caucasian. But it is possible that Achuzia may have served under him as a black man with the exact sam
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Olusegun Obasanjo
Nigerian head of state, 1976–79 and 1999–2007
His Excellency Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR | |
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Obasanjo in 2001 | |
| In office 29 May 1999 – 29 May 2007 | |
| Vice President | Atiku Abubakar |
| Preceded by | Abdulsalami Abubakar |
| Succeeded by | Umaru Musa Yar'Adua |
| In office 13 February 1976 – 1 October 1979 as Military Head of State of Nigeria | |
| Chief of Staff | Shehu Musa Yar'Adua |
| Preceded by | Murtala Muhammed |
| Succeeded by | Shehu Shagari |
| In office 29 July 1975 – 13 February 1976 | |
| Head of State | Murtala Muhammed |
| Preceded by | J. E. A. Wey |
| Succeeded by | Shehu Musa Yar'Adua |
| In office 1976–1979 | |
| Head of State | Himself |
| Preceded by | Illiya Bisalla |
| Succeeded by | Iya Abubakar |
| Born | Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo c. (1937-03-05) 5 March 1937 (age 87) (official date of birth) Ibogun-Olaogun, Ifo, Southern Region, British Nigeria (now Ibogun-Olaogun, Ogun State, Nigeria) |
| Political party | Peoples Democratic Party (1998–2015; 2018–present) |
| Spouses | Esther Oluremi Copyright ©fatunfo.pages.dev 2025 |