1966 Revolution: Why Tafawa Balewa's government was REMOVED by the Revolution of 9 Majors

Ahmadu Bello/ Tafawa Balewa: The Leaders Who Hated Nigeria! 

Wherever you go and wherever Nigerians congregate the question is often asked; why has Nigeria failed? Why has a nation so blessed with abundant human and material resources failed? Why is Nigeria so disharmonious; crippled by tribalism, religious fundamentalism and bigotry? Why is Nigeria so corrupt and why can’t Nigerians work together for the common good of all? Why simple issues in Nigeria are politicised thus inhibiting possible solutions to identified problems? Why is a nation that has all the potentials to be one of the richest in the world a failed state? Why has Nigeria been cursed with an endless line of bad leaders? These haunting questions are ever so common while finding answers to them has proven a difficult task.

Shocking revelation of how Tafawa Balewa died: The TRUTH you have never been told

Balewa was not assassinated: The Truth you have never been told

The controversy surrounding the 'mystery' of the death of Nigeria's Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa, was settled by Late Mathew Tawo Mbu, a former cabinet minister under Balewa and one of his trusted subordinates. In an interview, with the Nation Newspaper, Mbu revealed that contrary to the widely circulated information that Balewa was shot by the revolutionary soldiers, Balewa died from asthmatic attack en route Calabar.

1966 Revolution: Names and ethnicity of revolutinary soldiers who plotted the January 1966 event

 Chukwuma Nzeogwu:  Names and ethnicity of revolutinary soldiers who plotted the January 1966 Revolution

It has always been touted as an Igbo Coup. However, the names of the soldiers who plotted the January 1966 revolution reveal that the plotters cut across various nationalities of Nigeria. The revolution was wickedly branded an Igbo Coup as part of northern soldiers' propaganda (propagated especially by   T.Y. Danjuma and Gowon)  to justify their assassination of General J.T.U. Ironsi, the then Head of State of Nigeria, who assumed power at the death of the Prime Minster and the foiling of the revolution.