Many have said that the seeds of the northern officer's counter-coup of July 1966, which witnessed the killings of General Aguiyi-Ironsi and many other officers of mainly Igbo extraction and which eventually led to the  Nigerian civil war itself, were planted on that fateful night of 15 January by the bloodletting of Major Nzeogwu and his men, most of whom were of Igbo extraction.After the first ever attempted military coup in Nigeria on 15 January 1966, Remilekun Fani-Kayode and a number of other notable figures were all detained by the military government of General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi.. 
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