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The Black Sash was founded on 19 May 1955 by six middle-class white women, Jean Sinclair, Ruth Foley, Elizabeth McLaren, Tertia Pybus, Jean Bosazza and Helen Newton-Thompson. [1] The organisation was founded as the Women’s Defence of the Constitution League but was eventually shortened by the press as the Black Sash due to the women's habit ...
The National Security Organization (NSO) of Nigeria, or Nigerian Security Organization, was created under Decree number 27 of 1976 by the military regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo, after the failed Dimka coup which claimed the life of former Head of State General Murtala Mohammed. The NSO was given a mandate of co-ordinating Internal ...
Sheena Duncan (7 December 1932 – 4 May 2010) was a South African anti-Apartheid activist and counselor. Duncan was the daughter of Jean Sinclair, one of the co-founders of the Black Sash, a group of white, middle-class South African women who offered support to black South Africans and advocated the non-violent abolishment of the Apartheid system.
1963–1998. Rank. General. Battles/wars. Nigerian Civil War First Liberian Civil War. Sani Abacha GCFR ( (listen ⓘ); (20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian military dictator and statesman who ruled Nigeria with an iron-fist as the military head of state from 1993 following a palace coup d'état until his sudden death in 1998.
History. Aliyu Gusau was appointed Coordinator of National Security by military president Ibrahim Babangida from 1986 to 1989. In this role, he led the dismantling of the National Security Organisation into three succeeding agencies, that is, the State Security Service, National Intelligence Agency and the Defence Intelligence Agency.
The $2 billion arms deal, or Dasukigate, [1] is an arms procurement deal in Nigeria that resulted in the embezzlement of $2 billion through the office of the National Security Adviser under the leadership of Colonel Sambo Dasuki, the former National Security Adviser. [2] The illegal deal was revealed following an interim report of the ...
Nigerian Army. Years of service. 1977–2013. Rank. Major general. Mohammed Babagana Monguno CFR (born 1957) is a Nigerian retired military general who served as National Security Adviser from 2015 to 2023. He was the Chief of Defence Intelligence from July 2009 to September 2011; and the Commander of the Brigade of Guards from 2007 to 2009.
Nigeria. Branch/service. Nigerian Army. Years of service. 1974–1993. Rank. Colonel. Sambo Dasuki (born 2 December 1954) is a retired Nigerian military officer who served as National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan and briefly to President Muhammadu Buhari .