Latest News in Nigeria Today Friday 13th February 2026
These are the Latest News in Nigeria Today on Friday 13th February 2026 .
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target=_blank>No varsity can spend N211m without budget — Edeh, MOUAU Pro-Chancellor
The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU), Comrade Fidelis Edeh, has said the council withheld approval for the university’s 2025 convocation ceremony because the estimated cost was not captured in the budget.
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target=_blank>Ijaw Group threatens legal action over Bayelsa LGA status, resource control
The Supreme Egbesu Assembly (SEA), a prominent Ijaw group, has declared its readiness to take legal action against the Federal Government and the National Assembly over local government creation in Bayelsa State and issues of resource control.
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target=_blank>Lt. Col. Dimka moments before his execution by firing squad
Key Leaders and ParticipantsLt. Col. Bukar Suka Dimka: The central figure and leader of the coupattempt. Major General I.D. Bisalla: The then-Minister of Defence, executed for complicity. Joseph Dechi Gomwalk: Former Military Governor of Benue-Plateau State, convicted of involvement. Lt. William Seri: Identified as the officer who fired at General Murtala Muhammed’s vehicle. Abdulkarim Zakari:
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target=_blank>Dimka’s undelivered broadcast
This is Lt. Colonel B.S. Dimka. I am here to explain why we, the Young Revolutionaries of the Armed Forces, have found it necessary to overthrow the six-month-old government of General Murtala Mohammed.
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target=_blank>Trump to meet elite troops who captured Venezuela’s Maduro
US President Donald Trump will meet on Friday with the special forces soldiers who captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in a deadly raid in Caracas in January.
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target=_blank>Lt Colonel Buka Suka Dimka’s coup speech
This is Lt. Col. B. Dimka of the Nigerian Army calling. I bring you good tidings. Murtala Muhammed’s deficiency has been detected.
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target=_blank>Brigadier Murtala Muhammed’s inaugural speech as Nigeria’s third military Head of State, July 30, 1975
Events of the past few years have indicated that despite our great human and material resources, the Government has not been able to fulfil the legitimate expectations of our people. Nigeria has been left to drift.
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target=_blank>Murtala Muhammed was an incorruptible leader — Amb. Wali
Former minister of foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Bashir Wali is a cousin to the former Head of State, late General Murtala Ramat Muhammed.
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target=_blank>General Muhammed: Today’s leaders are not selfless like my father — Risqua Muhammed
Risqua Muhammed, son of the former head of state, in this brief chat with Vanguard’s Bashir Bello, says today’s leaders do not have the spirit of selflessness.
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target=_blank>General Muhammed’s tomb not a sight to behold
Located in Hausawa, near Tudun Maliki in Tarauni Local Government Area of Kano State, is Masallacin Murtala, a popular mosque named after Nigeria’s former Head of State, late General Murtala Ramat Muhammed.
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