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	Murtala Mohammed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		General Murtala Ramat Muhammed (November 8, 1938–February 13, 1976) was a military ruler (Head of the Federal Military Government) of Nigeria (1975–1976).
		Murtala Muhammad imposed the authority of the federal government in areas formerly reserved for the states, restricting the latitude exercised by state governments and their governors in determining and executing policy.
		Murtala Mohammed was, however, killed on February 13, 1976 in an abortive coup attempt when his car was ambushed in traffic in Lagos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Murtala_Ramat_Mohammed (766 words)

	Free information of Murtala Ramat Mohammed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		General Murtala Mohammed (November 8, 1938 – February 13, 1976) was a List of Presidents of Nigeria (Head of the Federal Military Government) of Nigeria (1975 – 1976).
		Mohammed opposed the regime of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi which took power after a coup d'etat on January 15, 1966, in which several Northern Nigerian leaders had been killed under gruesome circumstances.
		A Hausa, trained at the British military academy at Sandhurst, Murtala Muhammad had command of federal field forces in the final phase of the civil war, including being responsible for the abortive efforts to cross the Niger River.
	murtala.ramat.mohammed.en.qcat.org (5256 words)

	Murtala Mohammed International Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Murtala Mohammed International Airport (IATA: LOS, ICAO: DNMM) is located in Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria, and is the major airport serving the city of Lagos, southwestern Nigeria and the entire nation.
		It was named after former Nigerian military head of state Murtala Ramat Mohammed.
		Murtala Mohammed International Airport consists of an international and a domestic terminal, located about 1km from each other.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Murtala_Mohammed_International_Airport (522 words)

	Nigeriaworld Letters & Viewpoints (Remembering Ramat)
		Maybe if Murtala Muhammed was not cut short in his prime, he could have lived to apologize to the people of Anioma and Ndiigbo in general for the gutless acts of his army against unarmed civilians caught in a senseless slaughter by supposedly sane soldiers.
		Murtala Muhammed was a fruit of that labor.
		So it is most likely that Murtala Ramat Muhammed will continue to be remembered by the brutality of his death, the romance with martyrdom, not for his regime's deeds or his military might and defeats during the war.
	nigeriaworld.com /feature/publication/ene/ramat.html (3107 words)

	Dr. Omoigui's Account of Coup led By Murtala Muhammed Against General Gowon Government in 1975
		Mohammed took the precaution of arranging an official trip to London to avoid being asked to accompany Gowon to Kampala.
		General Murtala Muhammed was assassinated in the early morning hours of February 13, 1976.
		General Murtala Ramat Muhammed's colorful life thus came to a tragic end at the tender age of 38 years.Many monuments in the country are dedicated to his memory, including the International Airport in Lagos and a park in Benin City.
	www.waado.org /NigerDelta/Nigeria_Facts/MilitaryRule/Omoigui/MurtalaCoup-PartTwo.html (1872 words)

	MURTALA RAMAT MUHAMMED
		Murtala Muhammed was born in Kano on November 8, 1938 and attended Barewa College Zaria.
		Mohammed from the position of C-in-C. The bad feelings generated by this power rivalry was to dog their relationship from then on.
		However, in the period leading up to the outbreak of hostilities with Biafra, Murtala Mohammed did not hide his feelings that peace talks or not, war was coming and that preparations be made for this inevitability.
	www.dawodu.com /murtala3.htm (3428 words)

	BNW : Biafra Nigeria World Message Board: the Voice of a New Generation: Honoring Murtala Mohammed
		Murtala was a brute and shouldn't be recognized as a hero, at all.
		Murtala was nobody to Nigeria and the Igbos.
		Murtala was not a Head of State at the time of his alleged atrocities perpetrated on the Igbos.
	messageboard.biafranigeriaworld.com /ultimatebb.cgi/ubb/get_topic/f/1/t/000067.html (3763 words)

	Assassinations In History
		Sardar Mohammed Daud Khan, (1978), president of Afghanistan killed in communist coup.
		Mohammed Najibullah, (1996), president of Afghanistan from 1986 to 1992, killed by the Taliban during the capture of Qabul.
		Mohammed Ahmad al-Rasheed, (2003), Saudi Arabian ambassador to the Ivory Coast.
	www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/oldnews6/assassinations.htm (1642 words)

	Was Murtala Ramat Mohammed All That?
		Nigerians of diverse culture, religions and callings converged on Lagos on Monday to remember Murtala Muhammed, their "unmatched hero" of Nigerian unity and founder of the African Liberation Project.
		Murtala became Head of State in July 1975 after he staged a coup d'etat against Yakubu Gowon who had ruled the country for nine years.
		Murtala was on his way to a Jumat service that Friday afternoon.
	www.nigeriansinamerica.com /vbulletin/printthread.php?t=4917 (1701 words)

	ahmadubello.com
		General Murtala Mohammed, an army general, Head of State (July 1976 - February 1976), and first national hero, was born 8th November 1938 in the Kurawa Quarters of Kano City.
		General Mohammed served in the Nigerian contingent to the United Nations' Peace Keeping Force to Congo, and on his return, returned to the Signals Corp of the Nigerian Army.
		After the civil war, General Mohammed returned as head of the Signals Corp, but later served as a Commissioner in the military government.
	www.ahmadubello.com /murtala.html (384 words)

	Nigeria 2003 Elections Sub Site \| NigeriaBusinessInfo.com
		The Gowon administration’s continual procrastination on the issue of conducting a transition programme for return to civilian rule was aborted by the coup of Brigadier (later General) Murtala Ramat Mohammed in 1975.
		Murtala assumed power with a determination to reduce the over-bloated Federal Civil Service which the Gowon administration had given too much leverage in controlling the country.
		Murtala’s life was cut short by the bullets of another colleague in a failed coup attempt by Captain Bukar Dimka in 1976.
	www.nigeriabusinessinfo.com /nigeria-elections2003/murtala-obasanjo.htm (464 words)

	Nigeria - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Under Brigadiers Adekunle, Obasanjo and Murtala Mohammed, a systematic battle plan that comprised saturated air bombings and starvation forced the Biafran rebels to capitulate.
		On 15th January 1970, left with the choice of surrender and the total destruction of the Biafran populace, Philip Effiong, Chief of Staff of the rebel army accepted the terms of surrender before Yakubu Gowon, Head of the Northern dominated federal government.
		In 1974, Gowon broke his promise to return the nation to civilian rule, and in July of 1975, there was yet another military coup, the first of many bloodless coups.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/n/i/g/Nigeria.html (3625 words)

	Snapshot, Africa: Nigeria
		Under Brigadiers Adekunle, Obasanjo and Murtala Mohammed a systematic and amphibous battle plan that comprised saturated air bombings and starvation forced the Biafran rebels to capitulate.
		On the 15 of January, left with the choice of surrender and the total destruction of the Biafran populace, Philip Effiong, Chief of Staff of the rebel army accepted the terms of surrender before Yakubu Gowon, Head of the Northern dominated federal government.
		In 1975, a bloodless coup swept Gowon aside and brought Murtala Ramat Mohammed to power, who promised a return to civilian rule.
	www.sheppardsoftware.com /Africaweb/snapshot/Snapshot-Africa34.htm (830 words)

	Presidential Research & Communications Unit - News Roundup
		Speakers and guests took turns to eulogise former Head of State, the late General Murtala Ramat Mohammed, for his vision for Nigeria, Africa and the Black race, at the 10th Memorial Lecture to mark the 30th anniversary of his assassination at ECOWAS Secretariat, Abuja on 14 February.
		President Olusegun Obasanjo who is the chairman of the Murtala Mohammed Foundation, recalled that as Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, he worked closely with General Mohammed and the then Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Yakubu Danjuma “as a team with trust and loyalty”.
		The President stressed that the assassination of General Murtala Mohammed only succeeded in delaying but not derailing the vision of the Mohammed Administration.
	www.nigeriafirst.org /article_5465.shtml (581 words)

	Midwest Invasion of 1967
		Against instructions from Supreme Headquarters, Murtala Mohammed (taking a cue from General George Patton's behavior during the allied invasion of Italy, and encouraged by his initial success in evicting the Biafran force from the Midwest) tried repeatedly to take Onitsha from Asaba all by himself (6).
		Gowon replaced Mohammed with Colonel Ibrahim Haruna who was later replaced on May 12, 1969 by Col. Gibson Jallo when all divisional commanders were recalled (6).
		Brigadier (later General) Murtala Mohammed became Head of State in July 1975 when a cabal of civil war frontline officers, aided by the Commander of the Federal Guard, staged a successful palace coup against General Gowon (12).
	www.dawodu.net /midwest.htm (14265 words)

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		\par }{\b0\f1\fs20\ul Offending article \par }{\b0\f1\fs20 The trouble was triggered when an article in Nigeria's ThisDay newspaper suggested that the Prophet Mohammed would have probably chosen to marry one of the Miss World contestants if he had witnessed the beauty pageant.
		I must say that the portion referring to the Holy Prophet Mohammed was actually edited out by the editor but we were failed by technology.
		\par Mohammed Makarfi, the governor of Kaduna state, angered his Muslim brothers and the northern power block, when he created a greater chiefdom for the southern side of the state and exempted them from sharia law by creating civil courts to serve the non-Muslim community there exclusively.
	www.iwpr.net /development/modules/conflictreporting/conflictreporting_nigeria.rtf (7510 words)

	THISDAYonline
		The golden age of Nigeria as a nation was the period 1975/76 when the basic paradigm of ethno-tribal, religious and class liberalism was fiercely promoted by the then Head of State, General Murtala Ramat Mohammed.
		After the assassination of Murtala by coupists in 1976, General Olusegun Obasanjo, then second in command, took over the baton of leadership and effectively followed the economic blue-print.
		As we rejoice with this man of distinction and high integrity, Senator Abubakar Girei on his golden birthday, we should also use the occasion to reflect and pray for the salvation of our great and beloved country.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2004/03/21/20040321sxt02.html (1168 words)

	Mohammed, Murtala Ramat - Former Nigerian military leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Mohammed, Murtala Ramat - Former Nigerian military leader
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	people.africadatabase.org /en/person/3030.html (197 words)

	USAfrica online "INSIDE AFRICA" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Obasanjo ascended to the throne on Friday, February 13, 1976, following the assassination of General Murtala Ramat Mohammed.
		Pardoned or paroled, the facts of the matter are irrefutable: he is not qualified to run for chairmanship of a local council, let alone the presidency.
		His coming to power in 1976 was a coup: no one voted for him, neither did anyone elect the late General Murtala Mohammed president.
	usafricaonline.com /inside_a/complex_path.html (1489 words)

	THISDAYonline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Homlia Sports Club of Oslo, a Norwegian youth soccer team will arrive Lagos on February 23 enroute Yenogoa, Bayelsa State for this year's national Under 16 for boys and girls finals of the Ramat Cup.
		However, one interesting thing about the team is that it will be assisted to the country by Tajudeen Adeyemi, a Nigerian living in Oslo.
		Also coming for the yearly competition organised by YSFON in honour of and memory of the late Head of State, Gen. Murtala Ramat Mohammed, is Ghanaian boys' team, B.T. Colt International of Adabraka.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2003/02/14/20030214spo04.html (211 words)

	Nigeriaworld Feature Article - The United States: Artificial god of the World
		Late Head of State, General Murtala Ramat Mohammed was killed because America felt Murtala did not attest to the American value systems.
		In Asia, America and its allies have killed lots of people especially in Japan and Vietnam in the name of democracy.
		Murtala Bala Habu, III - Certified Member, Professional Tennis Registry, United States.
	nigeriaworld.com /articles/2003/mar/192.html (735 words)

	Nigerian Entertainment Online Magazine
		She made her professional debut on December 6, 1 975.
		At 15 she released her first album 'Late General Murtala Ramat Mohammed'' for Lateef Adepoju's Leader Records in May 1976.
		The album became the first record by a female artist in Nigerian musical history to sell over 1 million copies.
	www.nigerianentertainment.com /NEMay04/abeni.htm (360 words)

	Vanguard - Politics : How far can Ali go in clearing the mess in PDP?
		These should have been the case in the civil service were it not for the 1975 reform that destroyed the service.
		The late General Murtala Ramat Mohammed/Olusegun Obasanjo regime initiated the infamous civil service reform that led to the purge and/or sack of experienced civil servants and paved the way for unsuitable hands to have a free rein.
		The purge was intended to achieve one of the fundamental tenets of the regime: to put an end to civil service influence and supremacy.
	vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/politics/may05/22052005/p122052005.html (2129 words)

	t r u t h o u t \|\| People's Coup de ta
		Murtala Ramat Mohammed killed but Obasanjo survives and becomes head of state.
		Military coup in Uganda led by Basilio Okello and Tito Okello.
		Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Chairman of the Military Council for Justice and Democracy in Mauritania (2005-)
	forum.truthout.org /blog/story/2006/2/2/141110/1005 (7607 words)

	THE DOUBLE VICTIMS OF DEPRAVITY - OnlineNigeria.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Yakubu Gowon became head of State in 1967 and was obstructed in 1975.
		Gen.Murtala Ramat Mohammed became head of State in 1975 was also obstructed in 1976.
		Olusegun Obasanjo became head of State from 1976 and with pressure handed over to a democratic government in 1979.
	onlinenigeria.com /articles/ad.asp?blurb=241&topic=THE+...+OF+DEPRAVITY (2373 words)

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