Former Nigeria’s Head of state and elder statesman, General Yakubu Gowon (retd), has explained why he championed the creation of 12 states in Nigeria while he was in office as head of state. Gowon ...

A former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd), has given reasons he refused to align with any political party in the country. The elder statesman made this known on Wednesday in Abuja when he ...

University lecturers have again warned of an imminent showdown with the Federal Government over unresolved agreements and ...

Nigeria’s former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon has attributed his ascension 50 years ago to the accident of history. He said he did not nurse the ambition to be the leader of the country. Gowon ...

Nigeria’s former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has declared that military governance has no future in Nigeria, urging the country to deepen its democratic culture despite its ...

General Yakubu Dan-Yumma “Jack” Gowon, Nigeria’s Head of State from 1966 to 1975, born on October 19, 1934 from a minority Ngas (Anga) ethnic group from Lur, Kanke Local Government Area of Plateau ...

Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has described the Nigerian Civil War as the most difficult chapter of his life, stressing that his actions during the conflict were never motivated by ...

Umeh accused Gowon of misleading Nigerians by claiming the war wasn’t targeted at the Igbo. Senator Umeh blasts Gowon over civil war comments, demands apology to Igbo people Senator Victor Umeh has ...

Just few days to commence the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal hearing, a former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has urged Nigerians to accept the decisions of the court as final, ...

The 11th Governing Council of the Yakubu Gowon University (formerly University of Abuja), led by Senator Dr Olanrewaju ...

Coups have become the rule rather than the exception in populous Nigeria, which is divided into four rival regions and torn by tribal competition. In 1966 alone, two rulers have been murdered, along ...

The air-conditioned office of Nigeria’s leader, Major General Yakubu Gowon, is on the second floor of a villa in the Obalende quarter of Lagos. A well-thumbed copy of Carl Sandburg’s Abraham ...