Nigeria has experienced at least nine coups and attempted coups between 1966 and 1995. The last major scare came in 1997, ...

At least 16 Nigerian military officers are being detained incommunicado by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Abuja ...

A coup d'état is an overt attempt by a military organisation or other government elites to unseat an incumbent person or leadership. At least sixteen senior military officers have been detained by the ...

They are Agro Rangers - a special security unit set up by the government to defend farmers from militants from jihadist ...

Nigerian authorities on Saturday denied that more than a dozen officers had been arrested over a coup plot, pushing back on ...

The Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Gen. Christopher Musa, has warned that anyone working against Nigeria’s sovereignty and ...

A legal luminary and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), has urged the National Assembly to suspend the ongoing amendment of the 1999 Constitution, ...

Festus Keyamo, minister of aviation and aerospace development, has directed all Nigerian airlines to give serving military personnel priority boarding on all flights ahead of first and business class ...

The Federal Government on Sunday dismissed speculations of an alleged coup plot against President Bola Tinubu, insisting it ...

Against the backdrop of fear of possible return to power by the Nigerian military, human rights activist and former ...

Discover the list of military coups in Nigeria, from the first coup in 1966 to the latest alleged plot in 2025, and how they shaped the country's history.