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Nigeria helps foil coup attempt in Benin
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Nigeria deployed ground and air troops to assist Benin Republic in thwarting a coup attempt against President Patrice Talon, the presidency has confirmed. The Nigerian Air Force played a key role in the operation, while ECOWAS sent its standby force to defend the country. Benin authorities arrested around a dozen soldiers, including the ringleaders, following the botched plot.
The Sotto bloc has foiled a Senate coup, with power-sharing eyed in the near future. This incident forms part of ongoing power struggles in the Philippine legislature during the first week of February 2026. No further details on the involved parties were provided beyond the thwarting of the plot.
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The military high command in Nigeria has acknowledged that some officers plotted to unseat President Bola Tinubu. Reports from October last year detailed arrests of officers from captain to brigadier-general rank by the Defence Intelligence Agency.