This is the second of four videos about Nigerian history leading to the Nigerian Civil war. In this video, we take a look at Nigeria’s first military coup of January 1966. The coup was a bloody one masterminded by Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and his co-conspirators.

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Chapters
The Nigerian Army - 00:00
Events leading up to the coup Army - 01:49
The Coup Plotters - 03:08
The Coup Plan - 05:20
The coup in the north - 09:05
The coup in Lagos - 11:09
The coup in the Western Region - 17:56
The Coup in the East and Mid-western Regions - 19:01
The Federal Guards barrack Lagos 19:43
Ironsi crushed the coup - 20:35
The death of Balewa - 25:10
Ironsi takes over power - 25:50
The new military Government of 1966 - 28:59
The counter-coup begins - 30:00