This article on BBC News takes a look at how Nigeria is being run till this day and also were we are coming from and were we are right at this moment by correlating the past and the present. This article is made possible by Mr. Max Siollun, a Nigerian historian, writer, and author of the books Oil, Politics and Violence: Nigeria's Military Coup Culture 1966-1976 and Soldiers of Fortune: a History of Nigeria (1983-1993).

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Although most of Nigeria's current population of about 170 million was not born when the country's first coup was staged 50 years ago, its legacy lingers on, writes Nigerian historian and author Max Siollun. On 15 January 1966, a group of young, idealistic, UK-trained army majors overthrew Nigeria's democratic government in a violent military coup.

The coup leaders described it as a brief and temporary revolution to end corruption and ethnic rivalry. Instead, it made them worse. The coup exposed the vulnerability of the Nigerian state, and how simple it was to use soldiers to attack the government, rather than protect it.

A succession of increasingly repressive military governments ruled Nigeria for 29 of the next 33 years, until the restoration of democracy in 1999. Here are four ways in which Nigeria - Africa's most populous state and leading oil producer - is still affected by the events of 1966:

Question is: Should new protests worry Nigeria? The first coup was - Complete article can be found here: http://www.exlinklodge.com/2016/01/the-ghost-of-1st-coup-still-haunts.html



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First coup = Cause


Nigeria today = Effect


Wailing and screams of Marginalization = Fall out from the mushroom cloud they created