http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/209/3/2/two_men_fighting_by_gueparddefeu-d58wogd.jpg While arguing over the winner of the upcoming presidential election, two friends – Chukwuemeka and Akpan – got into a fight at Old Ojo Road in Agboju area of Lagos State.
Leadership Newspaper reports that the argument started after Chukwuemeka boasted that come rain or shine, Muhammadu Buhari would win the election, a statement opposed by his friend, Akpan who insisted that President Goodluck Jonathan remains the best person for the job.
What was said to be a friendly discussion degenerated into a fight as Akpan allegedly hit Chukwuemeka in the chest. In retaliation, Chukwuemeka hit his friend across the lips.
“Akpan fainted and those in the area had to use cold water to revive him. We have been friends for many years and I don’t know why the two friends who knew each other about a decade before I knew them would fight over election that they will not gain much from. As for me, I am not a fanatical supporter of any candidate so I will not fight because of any candidate,” an eyewitness told the paper.
January 15,1966 Coup: Conversation Between Lt. Col Pam And His Murderers
With a narrative from Dr Ishaku Chollom Pam FRCP, Consultant Physician, Tony Egbulefu captures the ghastly details of the conversations that preceded the cold-blooded execution of Lt Col James Pam, the Adjutant-general of the Nigerian Army in the hands of the January 15, 1966 mutineers. As the guns cracked in the early hours of January 15, 1966 from the officers and men loyal to some mutineering middle rank officers of the Nigerian Army, led by Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, 11 prominent Nigerian politicians and some senior army officers met their fatal end in its trail. Gone with the coup that spanned across the cities of Lagos (then federal capital ), Kaduna, (capital of Northern Region), and Ibadan, (capital of the Western Region) were the Nigerian Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Ahmadu Bello, Premier of the Northern Region, Chief Samuel Akintola, Premier of the Western Region, and minister of finance, Festus Okotie Eboh. Ostensibly targeted at the ruling political clas
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