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Adewale Ademoyega (died
February 21, 2007) was one of the prin****l
plotters of the
January 15, 1966 coup, an
event that
derailed Nigeria's
nascent democracy...
- Onwuatuegwu,
Chris Anuforo, Don Okafor,
Humphrey Chukwuka, and
Adewale Ademoyega)
began plotting a coup d'état
against in****bent
Prime Minister Abubakar...
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Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu (Northerner of
Eastern extraction) and
Adewale Ademoyega (a
Yoruba from the West). The coup
plotters succeeded in ********inating...
- army majors:
Timothy Onwuatuegwu,
Chris Anuforo, Don Okafor,
Adewale Ademoyega and
Humphrey Chukwuka. It
operated as a
clandestine movement of junior...
- real-life coup
organized by
Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu,
Major Adewale Ademoyega,
Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna,
Captain Chris Anuforo,
Major Donatus Okafor...
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After waiting for an
early morning radio announcement from
Major Adewale Ademoyega in
Lagos which did not take
place because of the
failure of the coup plans...
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sentenced to death. They were
executed by
firing squad on 22
September 1967.
Ademoyega, Adewale. (1981). Why we struck : the
story of the
first Nigerian coup...
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Anuforo along with
other majors (Kaduna Nzeogwu,
Emmanuel Ifeajuna,
Adewale Ademoyega, Don Okafor,
Humphrey Chukwuka, Fola Oyewole, O. Olafemiyan, G. Adeleke...
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royalty has come home".
Notable people with the name include:
Adewale Ademoyega (born c. 1934),
Nigerian Army
officer Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (born 1967)...
- the surrender. One
account by his
former co-conspirator Maj.
Adewale Ademoyega states that he was
tricked into
attending a
meeting at a
hotel with federal...