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Vol 66 No 21

Published 24th October 2025


Nigeria

Coup plot or not

Mobile phones started buzzing on 17 October about a thwarted coup plot, fired up by a story on Sahara Reporters on the arrest of 16 officers ‘over issues of indiscipline’ announced by Brigadier General Tukur Gusau, spokesman at Defence Headquarters, two weeks earlier. Gusau’s statement had been as anodyne as possible, reporting the officers had grievances ‘stem[ming] from perceived career stagnation caused by repeated failure in promotion examinations’.

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