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General Yakubu Gowon is told that he has been overthrown | July 29th 1975
July 29th 1975.
General Yakubu Gowon, the Nigerian Head of State and CommanderinChief of the Armed Forces, is captured at the Organisation of African Unity conference in Uganda, being informed that he has been overthrown by a military coup.
It is exactly 9 years after the army mutiny led by Northern officers brought him to power.
Source: Reuters News.
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