Today is the 39th anniversary of the brutal
assassination of Gen Murtala Muhammed:A genuine
patriot, panAfricanist and visionary leader. As school
children,we wept openly on that day,for a man whom
within the brief period of his reign made us proud as a
nation and asserted NIGERIA'S leadership role in
Africa. May Allah grant him aljanna firdausi,Amin
Copied from Shehu sani.

General Murtala Ramat Muhammed (November
8, 1938–February 13, 1976) was a military ruler
(Head of the Federal Military Government) of
Nigeria from 1975 until his assassination in 1976.
Murtala Muhammed was killed, aged 37, along with
his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Akintunde
Akinsehinwa, on February 13, 1976 in an abortive
coup attempt led by Lt. Col Buka Suka Dimka, when
his car was ambushed while en route his office at
Dodan Barracks, Lagos. He was succeeded by the
Chief of Staff, Supreme HQ Olusegun Obasanjo,
who completed his plan of an orderly transfer to
civilian rule by handing power to Shehu Shagari on
October 1, 1979. Today, his portrait adorns the 20
Naira note and Murtala Muhammed International
Airport in Lagos is named in his honor

Cool.

IbnSultaan:
Today is the 39th anniversary of the brutal
assassination of Gen Murtala Muhammed:A genuine
patriot,panAfricanist and visionary leader.As school
children,we wept openly on that day,for a man whom
within the brief period of his reign made us proud as a
nation and asserted NIGERIA'S leadership role in
Africa. May Allah grant him aljanna firdausi,Amin
Copied from Shehu sani

muhammed ramat murtala one of the first nigerian to decived the northerner. His grandfather was a trader who gave birth to ramat father in kano and ramat claim to hail from kano.
Ramat hails from agenebode a town popularly called bode which is not far from present day auchi.

May his gentle soul Rest in Jannaatul Firdaus

IbnSultaan:
General Murtala Ramat Muhammed (November
8, 1938–February 13, 1976) was a military ruler
(Head of the Federal Military Government) of
Nigeria from 1975 until his assassination in 1976.
Murtala Muhammed was killed, aged 37, along with
his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Akintunde
Akinsehinwa, on February 13, 1976 in an abortive
coup attempt led by Lt. Col Buka Suka Dimka, when
his car was ambushed while en route his office at
Dodan Barracks, Lagos. He was succeeded by the
Chief of Staff, Supreme HQ Olusegun Obasanjo,
who completed his plan of an orderly transfer to
civilian rule by handing power to Shehu Shagari on
October 1, 1979. Today, his portrait adorns the 20
Naira note and Murtala Muhammed International
Airport in Lagos is named in his honor

it was when the northern olygachy came to realise the grand deception be played by their southern brothers that they called for a coup to remove him.

Anniversary of the brutal assassination?

Why does that look strange to me?

Am sure you are not celebrating his

assassination (thats how it sounds like). Why

not Remembrance or

something?

May he rest in peace, he was a great man who has the interest of this nation in mind.

Anasko:
May his gentle soul Rest in Jannaatul Firdaus

amen

Our southern brothers should stop the grand deception of our northern brothers and it shall be well with you.

Titan continue rest in peace

He was a Gem,Nationalist and fine Gentleman officer

After 1979, if Nigeria had a leader like Murtala Mohammed with the genuine heart to rescue her and Africa we would have developed well."

Happy

Redoil:
Our southern brothers should stop the grand deception of our northern brothers and it shall be well with you.

Please could you please explain more, read a lot of things about his death which sounded more like an assassination than a coup

hero(ein)

Redoil:
Our southern brothers should stop the grand deception of our northern brothers and it shall be well with you.

What's up.?

We need leaders like him in Nigeria now more than ever may his soul rest in peace.




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I know some certain people would not pass up this opportunity to gloat. They never do, that's the only way they get to console themselves.

Murtala Mohammed proved any man can redeem himself.

RIP!

opopulip:
kjhgv

u wan wryt (KJV)king james version ni?

IbnSultaan:
He was a Gem,Nationalist and fine Gentleman officer

And a mass murderer

Redoil:
it was when the northern olygachy came to realise the grand deception be played by their southern brothers that they called for a coup to remove him.

No. The coup was a plot by disgruntled Gowon supporters who never forgave Muritala Mohammed for removing their man via a coup.(at least one of the theories...and the one that makes the most sense.).

if this thread gets more attention than mine which I created first, my guess will be right: we're playing celebrity and unequal life on Nairaland.

a corrupt, vainglorious and darung hausa ...

The only leader that made Nigerians proud.

good to always remember the day

IbnSultaan:
Today is the 39th anniversary of the brutal
assassination of Gen Murtala Muhammed:A genuine
patriot, panAfricanist and visionary leader. As school
children,we wept openly on that day,for a man whom
within the brief period of his reign made us proud as a
nation and asserted NIGERIA'S leadership role in
Africa. May Allah grant him aljanna firdausi,Amin
Copied from Shehu sani.

If he were to be alive today, he'd be answering questions at the ICC regarding the Asaba massacre.

incase