Nigeria, May 15 -- Founder of the Silverbird Group, Ben Murray-Bruce, has recounted how the 1983 military coup that ousted former President Shehu Shagari crippled his once-thriving concert promotion business.

Murray-Bruce spoke on Wednesday at the Infrastructure Dialogue 2026 in Abuja, where he reflected on the challenges of building a business in Nigeria amid political and economic instability.

The 70-year-old entertainment entrepreneur said that the economic instability forced an abrupt end to a promising entertainment venture he had built in the early years of Nigeria's post-civil war cultural boom.

The former senator said he launched Silverbird in 1980 after returning to Nigeria with a N20,000 loan obtained from his siblings, at a ...