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Nigeria’s former deputy leader, Gen Oladipyo Diya, and five others are sentenced to death by firing squad for plotting to overt
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South African History Online. (2012, April 23). Nigeria’s former deputy leader, Gen Oladipyo Diya, and five others are sentenced to death by firing squad for plotting to overt. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082325
South African History Online (2012) 'Nigeria’s former deputy leader, Gen Oladipyo Diya, and five others are sentenced to death by firing squad for plotting to overt', South African History Online, 23 April. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082325 (Accessed: 24 September 2026).
South African History Online, Nigeria’s former deputy leader, Gen Oladipyo Diya, and five others are sentenced to death by firing squad for plotting to overt [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082325, (accessed 24 September 2026).
"Nigeria’s former deputy leader, Gen Oladipyo Diya, and five others are sentenced to death by firing squad for plotting to overt." South African History Online, 23 Apr. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082325. Accessed 24 Sept. 2026.
South African History Online. "Nigeria’s former deputy leader, Gen Oladipyo Diya, and five others are sentenced to death by firing squad for plotting to overt." South African History Online. April 23, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0082325.
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