"Yakubu, Yakubu, who are those shooting in your house?" Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari, Commander of the 2nd Brigade, Lagos, screamed into the phone. His phone had been ringing and he had just woken up to pick it at his 11, Thompson Avenue, Ikoyi, home in Lagos around 2am. It was Lt.Col. James Yakubu Pam, the Adjutant-General of the Nigerian Army, calling to report some shootings in his compound and that some soldiers had gained forceful entry into his bedroom to arrest him. Maimalari had hardly spoken to Pam when he himself...