Nigeria: Premium Times to Bring Rare, Intriguing Details of 2025 Alleged Coup Plot Against Tinubu Administration
Premium Times has released a series based on official investigation records that detail an alleged 2025 coup plot against President Bola Tinubu’s administration. The plot, uncovered in September 2024, led to a scaled‑down Independence Day celebration and is now the subject of criminal proceedings involving serving and retired military officers and civilians. The documents identify dozens of suspects, including Colonel Mohammed Ma’aji as a principal coordinator, and describe plans to assassinate top government officials and a wide‑reaching logistical network.
- ▪The investigation stems from records obtained by Premium Times that include thousands of pages of investigation files, witness statements, and security agency materials.
- ▪The alleged coup plot was discovered in September 2024 and prompted a reduced Independence Day celebration on 1 October 2025.
- ▪Colonel Mohammed Ma’aji of the Defence Space Administration is identified as a key mastermind and coordinator of the conspiracy.
- ▪Dozens of serving and retired military officers, a police officer, Islamic clerics, politicians, businessmen and civilians have been questioned in connection with the plot.
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| Publication time | Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:27:15 GMT |
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The special PREMIUM TIMES series draws on official investigation records, bringing to light rare, intriguing and shocking details of the alleged 2025 failed coup plot against President Bola Tinubu's administration. In September last year, an alleged failed plot to topple President Bola Tinubu's administration unsettled the Nigerian government while officials made spirited efforts to downplay or even dismiss outrightly the conspiracy that reportedly forced a scaled-down 1 October 2025 Independence celebration. The plot, now subject of ongoing criminal proceedings in both the military and regular courts with serving and retired military officers as well as civilians facing trial, has received wide media coverage.
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