| 01/15/66 | A group of army majors (mainly Ibo) failed in Nigeria's first coup attempt. |
| 01/19/96 | UFNL claimed responsibility for a plane crash that killed the son of military dictator Abacha. |
| 03/01/96 | Nigeria moved troops into Cameroon. |
| 03/21/96 | Abacha signed a law permitting the military junta to dismiss any local councilman without cause. |
| 05/01/92 | Two hundred people were killed in ethnic clashes. |
| 05/23/86 | Fifteen students were killed in clash with police. |
| 06/18/93 | It was leaked that Moshood Abiola won the presidential elections comfortably over Bashir Tofa. |
| 06/23/93 | General Ibrahim Babangida annulled elections; military remained in power. |
| 07/03/86 | Former President Shehu Shagari and former Vice President Alex Ekwueme were released after spending 30 months in detention. |
| 08/27/85 | Major General Ibrahim Babangida takes over the government in a military coup. |
| 10/01/60 | Independence declared. |
| 11/10/95 | Writer and Ogoni rights champion Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight colleagues were executed by the Abacha government. |
| 11/17/93 | General Sani Abacha's coup made him Nigeria's seventh military ruler. |
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