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Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by Biodun556(op): 12:51am On Dec 08, 2025

Nigerian Air Force conducts Multiple Precision airstrikes on fleeing coup plotters in Benin Republic

By: Zagazola Makama

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has carried out strategic airstrikes on fleeing elements of the recently foiled military coup in the Benin Republic, security sources have confirmed.

Zagazola Makama was reliably informed by sources that the operation targeted coup plotters and their equipments attempting to escape Cotonou in armoured vehicles following the swift intervention by loyalist forces in the country.

The airstrikes, executed over the past 30 minutes, involved multiple coordinated strikes carried out by Nigerian fighter jets operating within Beninese airspace.

“The operation was meticulously planned and executed. Our objectives were clear: neutralize fleeing hostile elements, prevent regrouping, and restore stability in coordination with regional partners,” the sources stated.

The sources emphasized that all actions were conducted in conscent of Benin authorities as well as in strict adherence to international protocols to minimise collateral damage while maximising operational impact.

Eyewitnesses reported multiple explosions in strategic locations across Cotonou, confirming the effectiveness of the strikes. The sources said that the strikes successfully immobilized the armoured vehicles and disrupted escape routes used by the coup plotters and killing several of them.

The intervention comes in the wake of a failed coup led by Lt. Pascal Tigri, who had briefly attempted to dissolve state institutions and seize full military control of Benin Republic. Following the foiled takeover, key insurgent elements attempted to flee southward, prompting Nigeria’s rapid aerial response.

“The Nigerian Air Force remains committed to safeguarding regional security and protecting the sovereignty of neighbouring states,” A top Military officer said. “Our operations are intelligence-driven, precise, and aimed at preventing any spillover that could threaten our borders.”

Zagazola report that this marks one of the most decisive and high-profile Nigerian Military cross-border operations in recent West African history, illustrating Nigeria’s readiness to act decisively against destabilising threats in the region.

Efforts are ongoing to assess the full impact of the airstrikes and to coordinate with Beninese authorities for follow-up operations, including the apprehension of surviving coup plotters.

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by Biodun556(op): 12:59am On Dec 08, 2025

Television coup finally defeated.

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by Kemetian: 1:25am On Dec 08, 2025

THE GIANT OF AFRICA.

We are not called that for no reason...

In fact the entire West Africa owes its stability to Nigeria.

If you visit Sierra Leone or Liberia today as a Nigerian, they literally worship the ground you walk on, due to their memory of how the Nigerian military ended their wars....

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by MarketDispatch: 3:24am On Dec 08, 2025*

Biodun556:
Nigerian Air Force conducts Multiple Precision airstrikes on fleeing coup plotters in Benin Republic

But they cannot strike fleeing bandits and Boko haram in sambisa forest because it is too thick

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by 9japride(m): 3:28am On Dec 08, 2025*

Op how about the airforce striking bandits who rides okada freely?

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by galantjoe(m): 3:34am On Dec 08, 2025

Why Nigeria Airforce can't use this kind of precision airstrike to bomb bandits and kidnappers

Nawaoo

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by banku: 4:02am On Dec 08, 2025

The so-called terrorists and bandits are backed by retired Generals. A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Our Police and Soldiers are good outside the country, corrupt at home.

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by givedemwotowoto: 4:03am On Dec 08, 2025

What goes around…

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by geoworldedu: 4:31am On Dec 08, 2025

Pls don't go and attract more enemies o. The terrorists within are already far too much to handle. The Nigerian border is porous, I don't want to hear that Benin terrorists are trooping into Nigeria to revenge o.

A word is enough for a wise FG. cool

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by AlphaTaikun: 4:31am On Dec 08, 2025

Biodun556:
Nigerian Air Force conducts Multiple Precision airstrikes on fleeing coup plotters in Benin Republic

By: Zagazola Makama

https://www.facebook.com/100044145774265/posts/pfbid0B3srF1Sjb6Qj2s89PdaFU8cdUnZ44hyTcvpVB2GXfv8RT6yLYJ1XCop1i31iCvh5l/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

13 Soldiers Arrested In Benin Republic Over Coup Attempt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoRHnwmxa60
TVC News Nigeria •

BENIN COUP ATTEMPT REPELLED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t31i7bP-5Rg
Arise News •

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by Elusive001: 4:32am On Dec 08, 2025

Kemetian:
THE GIANT OF AFRICA.

We are not called that for no reason...

In fact the entire West Africa owes its stability to Nigeria.

If you visit Sierra Leone or Liberia today as a Nigerian, they literally worship the ground you walk on, due to their memory of how the Nigerian military ended their wars....

Shame no dey catch una? Na wa ooo

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by MEGAWATCH: 4:32am On Dec 08, 2025

Biodun556:
Television coup finally defeated.

But an Oba has been in bandits camp eating beans and doing frog jump in Kwara for more than two weeks now.

Like the lives of Tinubu's people doesn't really matters to him.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by Max24: 4:34am On Dec 08, 2025

Nigeria will be great and we will overcome our challenges.

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by YoungLionken(m): 4:35am On Dec 08, 2025

With their obsolete aircrafts, used in world war 1 undecided

..

Tinibu and yeye eye service angry

! I don't know but everything about that shege banza promax is just wickedly annoying angry

! I honestly don't know what DT is waiting for before taking decisive action once and for all...

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by Elusive001: 4:35am On Dec 08, 2025

Biodun556:
Television coup finally defeated.

Really? While killings, kidnapping, and destruction of properties by terrorists reign supreme in nigeria.

Why didn't your government tell the Benin guys to make peace deal?

Audio bombing.

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by tesseract: 4:38am On Dec 08, 2025

What sort of propaganda is this for God's sake? No shame, no iota of integrity, just lies upon lies upon lies upon lies.
A coup was already foiled by loyalist in the Beninois military but here is Nigerian military beating their chests for something they didn't do. Chai... politicizing everything just to score points

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by mascot87(m): 4:43am On Dec 08, 2025

MarketDispatch:
But they cannot strike fleeing bandits and Boko haram in sambisa forest because it is too thick

No, it is because those Bandits and terrorists are the brothers and friends of the North. If Benin Republic were to share boundary with the North, the northerners would have started making noise all over social media that the government have attacked there brothers and they will become very angry with the governmentand start to threaten them with 2027 election just like they didn't allow constitutional order back to Niger Republic.

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by ARISHEM: 4:44am On Dec 08, 2025

And yet they could not do the same to bandits patrolling and fleeing on rickety motorbikes

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by mascot87(m): 4:46am On Dec 08, 2025

galantjoe:
Why Nigeria Airforce can't use this kind of precision airstrike to bomb bandits and kidnappers

Nawaoo

That will be seen by the North as a declaration of war on them by the FG.

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by mascot87(m): 4:48am On Dec 08, 2025

geoworldedu:
Pls don't go and attract more enemies o. The terrorists within are already far too much to handle. The Nigerian border is porous, I don't want to hear that Benin terrorists are trooping into Nigeria to revenge o.

A word is enough for a wise FG.

Guy, na so you dey delusional reach?

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by circular(m): 4:48am On Dec 08, 2025

How about the bandits and terrorists in nigeria?

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by emkz: 4:49am On Dec 08, 2025

Let it be stated to the children who have not overcome the sobering defeat they received in 2023.

Nigeria's intervention in Benin under the auspices of ECOWAS standby force was at the request of the Beninoise legitimate authorities. Tinubu did not invade a sovereign nation. There is no double standard.

Why do these children wish for political instability in Nigeria and neighbouring countries? We recall how some of them went to Defence HQ to ask if the military would watch as Bola Tinubu would be sworn in. Yet, one of their warlords, a failed politician, was on Channels TV saying that swearing in Bola Tinubu would be ending democracy in Nigeria.

Who wanted to end democracy in Nigeria if not sore election losers?

PS: As for those saying the Nigerian Airforce cannot bomb insurgents, let it be also stated that insurgents collect daily, but making a show of it removes the element of surprise which is critical. As you can see, the coupists were caught offguard and had no time to respond, which caused the coup to fail. How can you shit air space without the capacity to enforce it?

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by whippersnapper(m): 4:50am On Dec 08, 2025

The way tinubu hates that word coup ehn. But the truth is only military rule seems to work in Africa. Democracy doesn't seem to be working. How many coups both successful and abortive have taken place. I still maintain apart from military dictatorship and monarchy all African leaders are imperialism puppets. E.g Paul biya

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by Nackzy: 4:52am On Dec 08, 2025

The same country that is incarcerating Nigerians in their prisons, subjecting them to hash conditions just because they're Nigerians, but it is Nigeria that's helping them now, the foolish man will not use this opportunity to request for the release of all Nigerians in their prisons just like America will do for their their citizens

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by jasent(m): 4:54am On Dec 08, 2025

Kemetian:
THE GIANT OF AFRICA.

We are not called that for no reason...

In fact the entire West Africa owes its stability to Nigeria.

If you visit Sierra Leone or Liberia today as a Nigerian, they literally worship the ground you walk on, due to their memory of how the Nigerian military ended their wars....

Mtssssss. Nonsense talk. Worship you for what? For lack of electricity in 2025 abi? Yenyenyen,giant of Africa my foot

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by StoneLucifer: 4:58am On Dec 08, 2025

Kemetian:
THE GIANT OF AFRICA.

We are not called that for no reason...

In fact the entire West Africa owes its stability to Nigeria.

If you visit Sierra Leone or Liberia today as a Nigerian, they literally worship the ground you walk on, due to their memory of how the Nigerian military ended their wars....

Little things like this and u are already masturbating in ecstasy with your low esteem and myopic mugus are lining behind u to punch "like"..So because Nigeria airforce strikes fleeing coupists from Benin Republic has made it Giant of Africa..Nigeria should not be compared with these small West African countries with all the mineral resources at her disposal..Go and strike Egypt, South Africa and know how far!! undecided

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by Alliswell248: 5:00am On Dec 08, 2025

Why is this news making some people to wail?
They have turned the thread to another wailing ground.
Oh ...they are ekpa and cownu att@ck errand boys....
Mr Adesina calls them....w@iling w@ilers
They are....
Losers

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by StaffofOrayan(m): 5:01am On Dec 08, 2025

This is actually very funny!

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by Nextjs: 5:02am On Dec 08, 2025

Soo we can locate coup plotters but can't locate terrorist?

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by Coolgent(m): 5:03am On Dec 08, 2025

Tinubu can mitigate coup and yet he can not handle ordinary bandits his party created

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by colizee(m): 5:03am On Dec 08, 2025

Kemetian:
THE GIANT OF AFRICA.

We are not called that for no reason...

In fact the entire West Africa owes its stability to Nigeria.

If you visit Sierra Leone or Liberia today as a Nigerian, they literally worship the ground you walk on, due to their memory of how the Nigerian military ended their wars....

Ok

But when it comes to dealing with our own internal security issues its a different story 😅

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Re: Nigerian Air Force Strikes Benin Republic Fleeing Coup Plotters by Femeto: 5:04am On Dec 08, 2025

Biodun556:
Nigerian Air Force conducts Multiple Precision airstrikes on fleeing coup plotters in Benin Republic

By: Zagazola Makama

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These people sha wan bring war to Naija.

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