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<p>Brigadier Babafemi Olatunde Ogudipe, from Ago Iwoye, was Nigeria&#8217;s First Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters.</p><div class="0UawQoM1" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>The position of chief of staff supreme Headquarters is equal to the position of a Vice President in civilian administration.</p><div class="l3SA4d5i" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>But the nomenclature was banned by the first military president General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida when he renamed it Chief of General Staff CGS.</p>
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<p>Brigadier Ogundipe served in Burma and India during the Second World War. The man served in Congo as a UN Peace Keeper.</p>
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<p>Following the July 29, 1966 coup that consumed Gen. Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi and Col. Adekunle Fajuyi, Ogundipe had no troops. He organized a detachment of soldiers under Capt. Ephraim Opara. They were ambushed at Ile Zik, Ikeja.</p>
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<p>Seeing that the plotters had no one controlling them, Ogundipe tried to instill order. He was snubbed by an &#8216;Other Rank&#8217;.</p>
<p>Left with no option,<a href="https://www.refworld.org/docid/469f38c5c.html"> he left Nigeria when it became obvious that Yoruba</a> officers were ignored so that a Northerner would assume the position of Head of State.</p>
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<p>Ogundipe moved to the UK, keeping him away from the military where his junior Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon had become Commander-in-Chief.</p>
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<p>Gowon promptly named Ogundipe High Commissioner to the UK.</p>
<p>He died in London in November 1971.</p>
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<p>Today many don&#8217;t remember him for bravery in India, Burma, and Congo. He is erroneously degraded.</p>
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