The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday August 21st, 2023
The Armed Forces of Nigeria As The Guardian of Democracy by Kola King
In times past, the armed forces of Nigeria had a reputation for overthrowing democratically elected governments, but they have since turned over a new leaf. Back then the Nigerian military had atttained notoriety as a hotbed of coups in Africa and had recorded nine coups and counter-coups between 1966 and 1993. At that time, the military was a veritable coup factory, so to speak. Some of the coups were violent and bloody and had led to the deaths of Nigeria’s first prime minister at independence, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and other high-ranking politicians from the Northern and Western regions. Even the military were not spared of the violence as the first military ruler Major General Thomas Aguiyi Ironsi was killed in a counter-coup in July 1966, while General Murtala Mohammed, who replaced General Yakubu Gowon following a palace coup in 1975, was killed by comrades-in-arms in a bloody coup in February 1976.
Besides, there was widespread decimation of a sizeable number of Eastern military officers and other ranks in what has been described as the revenge coup of July 1966 masterminded by then Major Murtala Mohammed and Major Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma as well as Major Martin Adamu.
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After leaving her #poem & #painting by Amir Khatib
“Believe when you wake up and don’t find yourself,
Yourself, who tired you last night,
and I weary you in vain,
I grew to hate her and everything…
You will undoubtedly be happy, as you finally left her after a long patience.
the ones that force you to be yourself,
It always reminds you: “Know yourself”, while it is absent in the pores of the place!”
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Worming #72 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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