Nigeria’s military intervened on Sunday in neighboring Benin after a group of soldiers announced a coup bid on state television, the Nigerian president’s office confirmed.
Responding to two requests from Benin’s government, Nigeria‘s President Bola Tinubu “ordered Nigerian Air Force fighter jets to enter the country and take over the airspace to help dislodge the coup plotters from the National TV and a military camp where they had regrouped,” said a statement from his office.
The Beninese government has said it has thwarted an attempted coup. (AFP)
