Military leadership in Nigeria 1966-1979
Date
1985
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Ibadan (Three Crowns Building, Jericho, P.M.B. 5095, Ibadan): University Press Limited,
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- Leadership and methods of assumption 1; The making of a leader and some oddities 7; Preamble to Military Leadership Tussle 19; Military at the helms 29; Gowon in the saddle of crises 38; Saving the Nigerian Army from disintegration 45; The Nigerian Civil War 51; The main Civil War actors 69; Bonny Crisis: An aid to new concept 80; Chronology of the Civil War 90; The lessons of the war 146; Rulers in abnormality of leadership 152; The economic crisis 208; A few embarrassments 216; The legacies of the Military Regime 226
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Military Leadership in Nigeria 1966-1979 will necessarily force an excursion into the unresolved subject of the definition of ‘Leaders and Leadership’. In the olden days, various acknowledged leaders had attempted a comprehensive definition of the concepts, but such definitions became inadequate because of factors such as time, space and environment and perhaps least of all fate or luck. The elusiveness of the definition becomes more obvious when people who are pronounced Messaiah today are sentenced to crucifixion tomorrow. What further complicates the subject definition can therefore be attributed to the people sitting in judgment over those we call leaders or those assuming the role of leadership. In short, after much research the elusiveness of the definition of the subject remains.