FRAUD ALERT: New FIRS boss deletes PhD degree from Wikipedia

Amid the controversies generated following revelations that the newly appointed head of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Babatunde Fowler, was brandishing a fake doctorate degree from a United Kingdom institution, Irish International University, the 59-year-old has since dropped the honourary degree from his Wikipedia entry.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday named Fowler as the new head of the FIRS, but hours after the announcement of his appointment, it emerged that his doctorate degree might have been fraudulently obtained.

PHOTO ALBUM: List of Nigerian Coup Plotters and What Happened To Them in full details

Coups are an integral part of Nigerian history and the following is a list of those who were accused by the government of plotting one coup or the other and what happened to them.

EXECUTED ON THE 11^TH OF MARCH 1976 AT THE BAR BEACH, LAGOS

The following were charged by the Olusegun Obasanjo-led military government  with orchestrating the bloody toppling of the government of General Murtala Ramat Muhammed, the Nigerian head of state who was assassinated on the 13^th of February, 1976. They were all executed on the 11^th of March, 1976: