PRESIDENT TINUBU COMMENDS NIGERIA'S ARMED FORCES FOR PROTECTING DEMOCRACY IN BENIN REPUBLIC. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE

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 STATEHOUSE PRESS RELEASE President Tinubu commends Nigeria's Armed Forces for protecting democracy in Benin Republic President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has commended the gallantry of Nigeria's military on Sunday for responding swiftly to the request by the Government of Benin Republic to save its 35-year-old democracy from coup plotters who struck at dawn today. Acting on two separate requests from the Government of Benin, President Tinubu first ordered Nigerian Air Force fighter jets to enter the country and take over the airspace to help dislodge the coup plotters from the National TV and a military camp where they had regrouped.   The Republic of Benin, through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a Note Verbal, requested immediate Nigerian air support "in view of the urgency and seriousness of the situation and to safeguard the constitutional order, protect national institutions and ensure the security of the population." In the second request, the authorities in Benin r...

EX-ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF IN BURUNDI COLONEL BIKOMAGU,ASSASSINATED YESTERDAY.

                       According to sources,Unidentified gunmen shot and killed Burundi's former army chief of staff yesterday saturday.Colonel Jean Bikomagu was shot dead outside his home in Bujumbura in the morning as he returned from church.His daughter who was with him,was seriously wounded and rushed to the hospital.According to the Burundi president spokesperson Willy Nyamitwe said on his facebook page that ''Another black weekend in Burundi.Blackened by the assassination of a senior member of the Burundian army in retirement,Colonel Jean Bikomagu..Very sad,very shocking''.Colonel Bikomagu was army chief during the civil war that started in 1993 when the Tutsi dominated army was fighting then rebel leader,and now President,Nkurunziza's CNDD-FDD Hutu rebels.The assassinations in Burundi is beginning to scare me.Early these month,gunmen killed a former Burundian security chief and close ally of President Nkurunziza.The next day,a prominent human rights activist who openly opposed Nkurunziza's bid for a third term in office was shot and seriously wounded.Sources claimed all these assassination is related to the fact that President Nkurunziza is re-elected into office for the third time.

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