WAKE UP: Today in history: Gen. Murtala Ramat Muhammed assassinated 13 Feb. 1976

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Late Gen. Murtala Ramat Muhammed, Nigeria's Military Head of State, who was assassinated on his way from mosque on Juma'at day in Lagos on Friday 13 February, 2022.

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By BASHIR ADEFAKA

This day of 13 February, 1976, Nigeria’s Military Head of State, General Murtala Ramat Muhammed, was assassinated on a Juma’at day, in Lagos, the then nation’s capital.

He was assassinated by Colonel Bukar Sukar Dimka led group of dissidents in a failed bloody coup the country will never forget and which also claimed the life of his Aide De Camp (ADC), Lt.  Col. Akintunde Akinsehinwa and, of course, the Military Governor of Kwara State, Lt  Col. Ibrahim Taiwo. The memory remains with Nigeria.

The presidential car in which the strongman of Nigeria was shot dead.

During the Janazah prayers for the late Head of State in Kano.


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