January 1966: The precision killing that exposed the brutal heart of Nigeria’s first coup The conspirators did not act randomly; they operated with a precise list of political and military figures to be eliminated. Largema was not even among the highest-priority targets, yet the effort taken to kill him, tracking him to a hotel late at night, reveals how determined the plotters were. The identity of the next victim that night forms part of a longer chain of events that continued across Lagos, Ibadan and Kaduna, ultimately claiming the lives of key...