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18 Oct

MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: PAID IN FULL WITH ONE GLASS OF MILK

A poor boy named Howard used to sell goods from door to door to pay his way through school. One day, he was hungry and decided that he would ask for a meal at the next house.

However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal, he asked for a glass of water. She thought he looked hungry, so she brought him a large glass of milk.

He drank it slowly and then asked, “How much do I owe you?”

“You don’t owe me anything,” she replied and added, “Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness.”

He said…“Then I thank you from my heart.”

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30 Sep

In October 1983, Major Daniel Idowu Bamidele heard of coup rumours against President Shehu Shagari and promptly reported to his General Officer Commanding (GOC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (who, unknown to Bamidele at that time, was in the thick of the plot).

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A week later, Bamidele found himself on a plane to Lagos, detained by the Directorate of Military Intelligence at Tego Barracks and was accused of plotting a coup against Shagari.

Fake witnesses were paraded and a mock interrogation contrived, while reports were being made to the NSO to mislead the Shagari regime.

Meanwhile, the real plot continued underground with the full involvement of the same Military Intelligence group that was interrogating him.

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15 Jan

MEANING OF THE SYMBOLS ON THE NIGERIAN ARMY'S FLAG

From a force of 18,000 in infantry battalions and supporting units at the end of World War II in 1945, the strength of the Nigerian Army rose to around 126,000 in three divisions by the end of the Nigerian Civil War in 1970.

In terms of doctrine, the task of the Nigerian Army has not changed; it is to close with and defeat an organised enemy.

The Army uses a flag that has three vertical stripes (red, black, and red). On it is the emblem of an Eagle, a six-pointed star, and the Arabic text.

HistoryVille takes a look at the symbols and their meanings. The flag is flown at the Nigerian Army Headquarters, Abuja.

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15 Jan

MAJOR KADUNA NZEOGWU'S BROADCAST AFTER THE MILITARY COUP D’ÉTAT OF JANUARY 15, 1966

After murdering Sir Ahmadu Bello, Premier of the Northern Region, in a bloody coup in the early hours of January 15, 1966, Major Patrick Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu then proceeded to kill...

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...Colonel Ralph Shodeinde, his superior officer at the Nigerian Military Training College.

He had led a group of soldiers on a supposedly military exercise to attack the official residence of the Premier of the North in Kaduna.

The Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, a Federal Minister, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, Premier of the Western Region, Chief Samuel L. Akintola, and top Army officers from the Northern and Western and Mid-Western regions of the nation were also brutally murdered.

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1 Jan

"In character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person, lacking in self-control, discipline, and foresight. Naturally courageous, and naturally courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity...

"...fond of music and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewelry.

"His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past.

"His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic and exhibits something of the animals' placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the state he has reached.

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1 Jan

JANUARY 1, 1984: MUHAMMADU BUHARI’S MAIDEN SPEECH AS NIGERIA’S HEAD-OF-STATE

On December 31, 1983, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari became Nigeria’s 5th Head-of-State after a successful overthrow of President Shehu Shagari.

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His regime was a period remembered for a strict campaign against indiscipline and corruption and also for his human rights abuses.

During his rule, about 500 politicians, officials, and businessmen were jailed, as part of the campaign against waste and corruption.

Also, as part of his “War Against Indiscipline”, he ordered Nigerians to form neat queues at bus-stops under the sharp eyes of whip-wielding soldiers. Even civil servants who were late to work were publicly humiliated by being forced to do frog jumps.

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