Nigeria, Jan. 15 -- Sixty years ago, in the early hours of the morning of 15th January 1966, a coup d'etat took place in Nigeria, which resulted in the murder of a number of leading political figures and senior army officers.

This was the first coup in the history of our country and 98 per cent of the officers who planned and led it were from a particular ethnic nationality in the country.

According to Max Siollun, a notable and respected historian whose primary source of information was the Police report compiled by the Police's Special Branch after the failure of the coup, during the course of the investigation and after the mutineers had been arrested and detained, the names of the leaders of the mutiny were as follows:

Major Emmanu...