When Ogundipe was informed of mutiny by blood baying Northern troops he ordered Gowon, the army chief of staff to put all units on the alert.

Curiously, instead of contacting Ogundipe his 2ic, it was Gowon that Ironsi called from Ibadan and asked him to send a helicopter. 🚁 Still, Ogundipe tried to do what Ironsi had done in the Jan coup..rally loyal troops against the mutineers.

He sent Gowon to Ikeja to meet with mutinous troops.

Gowon “radioed” back to SHQ that he had been detained by his co northerners, then emerged as their spokesman...”

#LestWeForgetNigeria:

“Given importance of constitutional stipulations..an ex A.G in Old Western State 🇳🇬 who later rose to be Sec-Gen of the Council, Dr. Lateef Adegbite, was appointed Chairman of Committee which drafted the Constitution of the apex Islamic body”@AbdulMahmud01 while fmr #Sultan of #Sokoto..then Sec-Gen of JNI, Ibrahim Dasuki was appointed Sec. The drafting exercise..in Ibadan..(witnessed) serious argument over office of President-General which the constitution reserves for Sultan of Sokoto believed to be descendant of Uthman Dan Fodio”

Since this is for “Dr”, those of us “unlettered” like my humble self are of the opinion that the problem isn’t about ASUU & govt so your protest should rather focus on educational reform

The current funding system of our public university is unsustainable twitter.com/i/spaces/1gqGv… It’s rather unfortunate that none of the contributors have made any reference to the contents of the ASUU and FGN

CAPTURE OF SOKOTO: “
As no reply had been received to the letter which had been sent..to Sokoto (saying that we had no desire to fight and inviting him to come to terms), a 2nd was sent in the same sense & to this an evasive answer was received. @CitizenPeper @EmekaOkoye The force then advanced to Shagali &..effected a junction w/ Capt Merrick troop (abt 200),who had been in occupation in Argungu for several mths, acting 1st as escort to French convoys traversing the British sphere under intl arrangement & later as escort to Boundary Commission

#LestWeForgetNigeria:
🇬🇧 decided to split🇳🇬 into 3 regions,with a Northern gov’nor in Jebba, a Southern gon’nor in Lagos & a crown colony also administered from Lagos. The dividing line was drawn by 1st drawing a line connecting rapids of Calabar with center of the town of Yola. Then the boundary is the line btw where the 1st line crosses the north fork of the Katsina river to the center of the town of Owo. This is approx the 7° 10'N line..Note this is where the line intersects a river which runs north-south,the dividing line isn’t following the river.

#LestWeForgetNigeria .
“Leader of AG..sent (memo) to Sec of State.. (on) what he called 5 challenges..I’m concerned w/ only 1..which reads: “I challenge you to deny WesternRegion ve right of self determination & free to decide whether or not they remain in proposed 🇳🇬Federation The reply..conveyed to leader of AG thro’ Acting Chief Sec of🇳🇬 by direction of Sec of State read as: “The Sec of State has directed you sh’d be informed any attempt to secure alteration of that decision"-“that’s decision concerning status of Lagos-“by force ll be resisted &.."