Gowon, others task youths on peace, productivity
Looting of CBN: We can vouch for Gowon — Clark, Adebanjo, Nwodo, Bitrus
Did Gowon loot the Central Bank?
Ex-Minister, Gbagi flays British lawmaker over allegation against Gowon
Jonathan greets Gowon at 86
I felt petrified when I emerged Head of State — Gowon
Igbo still marginalised in Nigeria — Gowon
Igbo reason for Nigeria’s economic gallantry, says Gowon
Gowon lashes out at successors over Mambilla power project
Gowon lashes at his successors over Mambila Project
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SubscribeInsecurity: Gowon leads ‘Nigeria Prays’ in prayer rally in Bauchi
Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), former Nigeria Head of States and National Chairman of ‘Nigeria Prays’ on Sunday, led the group in a prayer rally for peace to reign in the North East zone and Nigeria at large. Speaking during the one-day prayer rally organised by Nigeria Prays, North-East zone held in Bauchi, with the theme: […]
Ojukwu, Banjo conceived what could have been first coup in 1964 – Gowon
What could have been the first military coup in Nigeria was mooted by the late Head of State of defunct Republic of Biafra, Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu and the late Col Victor Banjo, former Head of State, Gen Yakubu Gowon,retd, said.
The Biafran War: My Memoires
I was too young, too timid and ill-informed to know the time, date, month or year. Like many other kids in our village, I was just a timid African child growing up in a remote Boki village, Arangha, in Isobendeghe, far flung from the theatre of war.
50 years after: Let’s revisit issues that caused Civil War— Gowon, Soyinka, Anya, Utomi, Akintoye
LAGOS — 50 years after the Nigerian Civil War, former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd); Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka; Professor Anya O. Anya, Professor Pat Utomi and Professor Banji Akintoye, yesterday, warned that another war was imminent if the current political, social, and economic challenges plaguing the country were not addressed.
Nigerian Civil War: 50 years after My Biafran war story
Professor Pat Utomi describes the genocide as only second to the holocaust. And this happened on our shores. As JP Clark aptly put it in his poem, The Casualties , the casualties were not only those who died. Many of us were. Millions were killed. Pregnant women were decapitated. Innocent civilians mowed down. I am one of those John Pepper Clark wrote about in his poem.
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