Tag: Muritala Muhammed
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Muritala Muhammed: 42 years after, legacies of Nigeria’s ‘no nonsense’ anti-corruption crusader lives on
Today, Tuesday, February 13, makes it exactly 42 years that Nigeria’s former head of state, General Murtala Ramat Muhammed, popularly called ‘no nonsense general’ was assassinated. He was assassinated on Friday, February 13, 1976, a day the conspirators believed the leader could be felled by the bullets. Otherwise, Muhammed, according to them, was invincible. The…