The fear of damaging this long-term vision was expressed just before the summit by the 89-year-old former Nigerian head of state Yakubu Gowon the sole surviving signatory of the original 1975 treaty establishing the bloc who calls for the lifting of sanctions: 'Neither my generation nor present or future generations will understand or forgive the breakup of our Community...
A Muslim he went to a Christian school in Zaria and then university in 1979 to study social sciences at Warwick University in Britain in the wake of the former head of state General Yakubu Gowon...
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Military ruler General Yakubu Gowon under whom Buhari served during the civil war attended the swearing-in but Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan two former presidents who back the opposition People's Democratic Party were absent (AC Vol 52 No 8 A trap for the juggernaut)...
Yakubu Gowon the former military head of state who presided over the enlightened ‘no victor no vanquished’ policy after the civil war in 1967-70 and appointed a cabinet of the most able possibly future presidential politicians alongside technocrats...
His aides say he plans a unity government like that formed by General Yakubu Gowon when the civil war ended in 1970...
Buhari was Shehu Yar'Adua's oldest friend and Shehu named his second son after him (his first son Murtala was named after Murtala Mohammed with whom Yar'Adua served in the 1967-70 civil war and on whose behalf he helped organise the 1975 coup against Yakubu Gowon)...
Yakubu Gowon and Chief Sunday Awoniyi Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum...
Abdulsalami Abubakar and Yakubu Gowon have quietly warned that a third term for Obasanjo could threaten national stability...
Vol 47 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
That of 1973 under General Yakubu Gowon was cancelled...
The family of disgraced former Senate President Adolphus Wabara forced to resign in April over allegations of corruption is linked to Overt while the families of former military rulers Yakubu Gowon (1966-75) and the late Murtala Muhammed (1975-76) have also been included...
