General Murtala Mohammed

Murtala Mohammed' s crusading government which implemented the same failed economic strategy but with more nationalist flair...

Murtala Mohammed and Gen...

Abacha's domestic political platform and to boost Nigeria's African standing which has waned since the Murtala Mohammed-Olusegun Obasanjo governments substantially backed liberation movements in Angola Mozambique Namibia and South Africa in the 1970s...

Nigeria's most popular leader to date is Murtala Mohammed a northern Muslim from Kano whose radical support of Southern African liberation movements in the 1970s gave the country an international stature it has not been able to regain since...