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Gowon, Africa’s bloodiest coup and a floundering Nigeria

By Chuks Iloegbunam TODAY is the anniversary of two critical political developments in Nigeria’s history. On July 29, 1966, Lieutenant-Colonel Yakubu Gowon led a coup d’état that toppled the military government of Major General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi. To this day,
July 29, 2025

THE DAILY QUERY HARD BEAT | Still on N12bn ($8m) Olympics spend: With or without medals, was the outing worth the bucks? asks Ademola Tijani

The Daily Query Hard Beat is a weekly editorial insight into various aspects of the nation’s, even the world’s, socio-political, cultural and economic life. It is designed for editors at Daily Query to ask hard questions (hence the hard beat as in
September 11, 2024