Murtala Ramat Mohammed: Africa’s martyr, Nigeria’s flaming conscience
By Tanimu Yakubu Fifty years ago, on February 13, 1976, gunfire shattered the morning calm in Lagos. Nigeria awoke to the assassination of its head of state, Murtala Ramat Mohammed. Africa lost not just a soldier. It lost a furnace of political will — a leader whose 180 days in office reshaped Nigeria’s foreign policy […]