Mamman Kontagora, 69, Nigerian military officer and politician.

And she artfully presents the jockeying between Richard and a swaggering Nigerian military officer.

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (4 November 1933 - 26 November 2011) was a Nigerian military officer and politician.

The coup plotters murdered the pregnant wife of Brigadier Ademulegun, a Western Nigerian officer, in cold blood.

Rear Admiral Allison Amaechina Madueke (born 1944) is a retired Nigerian naval officer.

Nigerian Military Protests At least 30 Nigerian officers said they would retire to protest the annulment of the presidential vote, a civilian official said.

At the time, most Nigerian officers in the Special Branch were regarded by the expatriate officers as being more loyal than intelligent.

Meanwhile, a Nigerian officer died from wounds received in a clash with rebels on Monday.

Presidential elections are scheduled for December, and Nigerian military officers say they will return authority to elected civilians early in January.

"If we lose Bakassi we lose our eastern access to the Atlantic," a Nigerian naval officer told Reuters.