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	Yakubu Gowon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Gowon, Yakubu, born in 1934, head of the federal military government of Nigeria (1966-75).
		General Yakubu Jack Dan-Yumma Gowon (Pronounced Ngo-wong) (born October 19, 1934) was the head of state (Head of the Federal Military Government) of Nigeria from 1966 to 1975.
		The coup led to the installation of Lieutenant-Colonel Yakubu Gowon in power.
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	Online NewsHour -- Nigeria in Transition: Nigeria's Post-Colonial Political Turmoil
		Gowon responded to the unrest by seeking to limit the regional powerbrokers and splitting Nigeria's four political regions into 12 states.
		The eastern region's governor and military commander, Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu —; an Oxford-educated millionaire's son — blamed Gowon's central government for the failure to bring stability to the area and refused to acknowledge the central government's authority.
		On July 29, 1975, Gowon was ousted in a bloodless coup led by Brigadier General Murtala Muhammad.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/africa/nigeria/political_history_3.html (315 words)

	Yakubu Gowon At 70
		Gowon was pardoned by the civilian regime of Alhaji Shehu Aliyu Usman Shagari.
		His simplicity is second to none and vital output unendly monumental; General Yakubu Gowon remains the undaunted emancipator of the people from the clutches of disunity, disease, illiteracy and tribalism.
		That is the family that produced General Yakubu Gowon, the Nigerian’s longest serving military Head of State and Commander-in-chief of the armed forces, an international statesman, Chief Executive of the Yakubu Gowon foundation, a national patriot and a distinguished academic whose sobriquet is ‘Go On With One Nigeria’.
	www.dawodu.com /mamza1.htm (1281 words)

	DIAMOND PUBLICATIONS LTD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gowon thanked the doctor but said that it was better for her to be alert to the reality of the situation than to dull her senses.
		Gowon didn’t have the slightest inkling or suspicion of the impending coup.
		Gowon] does not even know how her husband got to the position and now she’s behaving as if she got there as of right.” This conversation took place on a Wednesday, during the course of a Federal Executive Council meeting, where drinks and fried chicken were served.
	www.diamond-publicationsng.com /books/chapter1.html (2838 words)

	allAfrica.com: Nigeria: 32 Years After, Gowon Defends Udoji Award (Page 1 of 1) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria's Head of State between 1967 and 1975, has defended his administration's decision to increase civil servants' salaries in 1974, an event that came to be known as Udoji Award.
		According to Gowon, it was not a unilateral decision or action on his part, but an act that was taken with respect to the recommendation made by Udoji who headed the commission that advised a raise in the salaries of civil servants.
		Gowon explained that the overriding consideration was to ensure that salaries of Nigerian civil servants caught up with what obtained in the private sector with a view to further motivating them, noting that such increment couldn't have been done without committing some money to it.
	allafrica.com /stories/200701300078.html (986 words)

	Former military ruler donates equipment to anti-malaria campaign (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yakubu Gowon, military ruler of Nigeria between 1966 and 1975, and founder of the non-governmental organisation, the Yakubu Gowon Centre, presented authorities with three Toyota Jeeps, a 406 Peugeot saloon car, 17 desk and five laptop computers, a photocopier, scanners and a telephone system.
		The Yakubu Gowon Centre is the principal Nigerian recipient of Global Fund grants.
		In addition to Thursday's deliveries, Gowon said 528,000 doses of sulphadoxine Pyremathamine were procured for distribution to pregnant women in 12 project states that were selected out of Nigeria's 36 component states.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /africa/printer_1031889.php (208 words)

	Gowon at 70
		General Yakubu Gowon, the former head of state, celebrated his 70th birthday, Tuesday, October 19, amidst encomiums from within and outside the country.
		Gowon came to prominence in 1966, when at 31 he became the youngest head of state that has ever ruled the country.
		Gowon was ousted in a coup d'etat on July 29, 1975 while he was attending the Organisation of African Unity, OAU, meeting in Kampala, Uganda.
	www.newswatchngr.com /editorial/allaccess/bob/bob100010.htm (808 words)

	Carter Center PRess Releases - Jimmy Carter, General Dr. Yakubu Gowon Encourage Nigerian Officials to Contain ...
		President Carter was joined on the field visit by senior officials from The Carter Center, national health experts, and Nigeria's former Head of State General Dr. Yakubu Gowon.
		As chairman of the board of trustees of the Yakubu Gowon Center, General Gowon has been a key advocate in the eradication effort in Nigeria since 1999.
		President Carter's visit to Nigeria comes on the heels of General Gowon's visit to The Carter Center headquarters last November to receive The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Award for Guinea Worm Eradication alongside Dr. Miri.
	www.cartercenter.org /news/pr/nigeria_021507.html (0 words)

	Nigeria - The 1966 Coups, Civil War, and Gowon's Government
		Gowon rightly calculated that the eastern minorities would not actively support the Igbos, given the prospect of having their own states if the secession effort were defeated.
		The postwar Gowon government issued a nine-point transition program that was to culminate in the handing over of power to a civilian government on October 1, 1976.
		Gowon initiated several nation-building policies, the most notable of which was the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), a community service institution that required one year of service by each Nigerian immediately after graduation from university or other institution of higher learning.
	countrystudies.us /nigeria/70.htm (1185 words)

	News -- Gowon failed, Obasanjo has nothing to learn from him —Gen Oluwole Rotimi
		In 1974, Gowon, together with the Supreme Military Council aborted that programme of return to civil rule by saying that civilian has not learnt their lessons and that 1976 was no longer realistic.
		When Gowon became unpopular, within the same military, it is the same officers from the Northern part of Nigeria, largely, who decided to overthrow him because they claimed that they put him there, and when the time came, they would take him out and they succeeded.
		Ojukwu and Gowon, the seniority between them was very slight and I think Ojukwu actually had slight seniority over Gowon, but as things happened, Ojukwu couldnât come to be Head of State of Nigeria when his Ibo people were being killed for his security he couldnât come.
	odili.net /news/source/2006/jan/6/309.html (3280 words)

	Dreaming a Different Nigeria
		Because he had led the coup that brought Yakubu Gowon to power as a compromise choice because Yakubu was a Christian by faith and because he comes from a minority group in the North.
		Yakubu Gowon just arrived right on time as the man who could best govern the country and save us from the hot-blooded coup plotters which included Murtala himself and our current President among others.
		It was as if Yakubu Gowon was scared of Murtala thru much of their time together until the same Murtala led the group that flushed him out in 1975 when Yakubu was away in Uganda attending an OAU meeting.
	www.gamji.com /article6000/NEWS6800.htm (922 words)

	Yakubu Gowon - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After Nigeria's second bloody coup in 1966, he was appointed commander in chief of the armed forces and head of the military government.
		The army put down (1967-70) the secessionist Biafran government of General Ojukwu independent of Gowon, but he led Nigerian reconciliation through his personal influence, becoming a major African leader by 1975.
		While out of the country in 1975, he was overthrown and began a life of exile in England.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Gowon-Ya.html (271 words)

	Nigeria - Yakubu Gowon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lieutenant-Colonel Yakubu Gowon became head of the Federal Military Government and Supreme Commander of the Armed forces on August, 1966.
		Before his assumption of office, Lt-Col Gowon was chief of staff, Nigerian Army and, as such a member of the first Supreme Military Council.
		The son of a missionary, Lt-Col Gowon was a keen hockey player and took part in competitive athletics including soccer and boxing.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /gowon.asp (346 words)

	Feature Article of Monday, 28 March 2005
		Gowon had proven that Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah’s vision of African unification was not simply a pipe-dream.
		Yakubu Gowon has proven to be the most foresighted of Nigeria’s military rulers.
		To-date, the former Nigerian head-of-state is the only military ruler to have carved a meaningful professional identity for himself after he was deposed in a 1976 coup detat spearheaded by the late Gen. Murtala Muhammad and his staunch or trusted lieutenant and incumbent president Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=78109 (1482 words)

	...Reflections Column
		If for nothing else, the fact that General Gowon was not consumed by the monstrosities and bestialities of a fratricidal war makes his life a compulsive study-- in simplicity, humility and courage.
		Gowon has engaged himself in the art of praying for the health of the country he once ruled, that is beset with seemingly interminable crises.
		In the end, it is, as Dennis Brutus, the South African poet mused, in the midst of the dehumanizing clutch of Apartheid, it is the tenderness of the man’s spirit that gave him survival.
	www.sunnewsonline.com /webpages/columnists/reflections/reflections-october-21.htm (1169 words)

	E Tu Gowon
		Like Caesar may well be Nigeria’s response after being betrayed and stabbed by a succession of her leaders, including General Yakubu Gowon who recently declared that his administration is the best ever.
		A keen observer will see Gowon as being too honest and gentlemanly to engage in such self remarketing except to spite the administration of the man he probably refuse to forgive for kicking him out of office 26 years ago.
		It is safe therefore to conclude that while Gowon was the best gentleman and most incorruptible leader we ever had, his self accorded best grade is least deserved.
	www.nigerdeltacongress.com /earticles/e_tu_gowon.htm (1082 words)

	USA/Africa Dialogue, No. 9: Ali Mazuri's Diagnosis and Prescription
		Yakubu Gowon was at the time a mere child and a Christian and was not involved in Muslim separatism.
		But Yakubu Gowon was constantly aware that saving the territorial integrity of Nigeria was useless without simultaneously pursuing the national integration of its people.
		General Yakubu Gowon was a major architect of this ambitious African regional organisation.
	www.utexas.edu /conferences/africa/ads/9.html (3545 words)

	Former military ruler advocates grassroots peace building initiatives \| Ekklesia
		General Dr Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria's Head of State for nine years, from 1966 to 1975, is best known for his role in preventing the breakup of Nigeria in the 'Biafran' war 1967-1970.
		After losing power in 1975, Gowon left the army and, along with his wife and two young children left Nigeria to begin a new life in the UK where by 1983 he attained a PhD in Political Science and International Relations.
		General Gowon is the founder of the Nigeria Prays Organisation and Programme which marks its tenth anniversary this year, through which he tries to mediate in the bitter religious struggles of present-day Nigeria.
	www.ekklesia.co.uk /content/news_syndication/article_061031gowon.shtml (722 words)

	BNW News Blog: Biafra Nigeria World News Index and Digest: ...Presidency Haunted, Says Gowon
		As the protracted wrangling between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku Abubakar continues, former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, yesterday urged Nigerians to seek divine intervention, saying the quarrel between the two had gone beyond the anti-corruption war or permutations ahead of the 2007 presidential elections.
		Gowon who set up Nigeria Prays ten years ago, also urged the National Assembly to look beyond the physical in its mediation in the crisis, adding that the parliament needed divine guidance in its bid to resolve the crisis amicably.
		Gowon, represented by the Assistant National Director, Nigeria Prays, Reverend Raphael Opawoye, lamented that the disagreement at the nation’s seat of government was a manifestation that Nigeria was yet to attain the spirit of brotherhood, which is a prerequisite for the attainment of nationhood.
	news.biafranigeriaworld.com /archive/thisday/2006/09/27/presidency_haunted_says_gowon.php (544 words)

	Photo spread
		ABOVE :Gen.(Dr) Yakubu Gowon " Father Of the Nation of Nigeria" being adorned with the traditional 'aka' chieftaincy beads by Dr Francis Ohanyido.
		Dr Ohanyido was among past students of Federal Government Colleges (Unity Schools) who felt that Gen. Gowon should be officially honoured as "The Father Of The Nation" for his vision in establishing the schools and also for his untiring effort to keep the nation from disintergrating.
		The auspicious moment came in 1988,during an elaborate and colourful ceremony witnessed by eminent Nigerians during the silver jubilee of Federal Fovernment college Jos.Dr Ohanyido was one of the Kingmakers from different ethno-cultural spread that crowned him with the title.
	members.tripod.com /francisohanyido/id14.html (167 words)

	Nigeria - The Gowon Regime and The Nigerian Civil War, 1966 - 1975 - OnlineNigeria.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the circumstances, Gowon decided to cut the Gordian knot of the political imbroglio; on May 27, 1967, the Federal Government declared a state of emergency throughout the Federation and split the country into twelve states, two of which were for the minority ethnic groups in Eastern Nigeria.
		First, Gowon proclaimed that there were "no victors and no vanquished'" which prepared Nigerian minds for reconciliation and allayed lgbo fears of possible persecution and victimisation by federal authorities and other Nigerians.
		On July 29, 1975 Gowon was overthrown in a peaceful military coup and was succeeded by Brigadier Murtala Mohammed, a Division Commander during the Nigerian Civil War.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /military/?blurb=677 (802 words)

	MOTHERLAND NIGERIA: HISTORICAL GOVERNMENT (By Boomie O.)
		Gowon had not actually been involved in the coup, but they felt he would be a compromising candidate to head the Federal Military Government.
		In 1967, when Gowon moved to split the 4 existing regions into 12 states, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, the leader of the Eastern Region refused to accept this, and declared that the Eastern Region would become it's own independent republic, named Biafra.
		In 1974, Gowon broke his promise to return the nation to civilian rule, and in July of 1975, there was another military coup to overtake him (Gowon was not killed, for a change.
	www.motherlandnigeria.com /govt_history.html (2663 words)

	africast.com - News List
		ABUJA, January 04 -- Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon is to testify before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, Netherlands, next month over the four-decade old tussle between Nigeria and Cameroun on the ownership of the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula.
		According to Cameroun, Gen. Gowon ceded the area to it during several meetings with its then President, Alhaji Ahmadou Ahidjo, between 1972 and1975.
		Gowon who ruled Nigeria between 1966 and 1975 has, however, vehemently denied the allegation.
	news.africast.com /article.php?newsID=30478&strRegion=West (842 words)

	AM - Nigeria seeks first Commonwealth Games for Africa in 2014
		The head of Nigeria's bid team is General Yakubu Gowon, a General and the former Nigerian President.
		YAKUBU GOWON: That is really a great desire, that this Games should come to Nigeria at that time, because Nigeria is going to be 100 years old.
		YAKUBU GOWON: Well, we'll be disappointed, but it will not break it from our love and contact with the Commonwealth.
	www.abc.net.au /am/content/2006/s1599869.htm (477 words)

	Vanguard -Viewpoint : Vanguard book serials : From Ojukwu's trick to the civil war
		Apart from charging Gowon with complicity in the slaying by Northerners of Igbos in the North, Ojukwu felt that if the Nigerian Army must produce a successor to replace the slain General Ironsi, he should have first pick over Gowon in terms of seniority (in the absence of Brigadier Babatunde Ogundipe).
		Yakubu “Jack” Gowon was born into a Methodist Minister’s family in 1934.
		Gowon told Awo that Biafra was going to use a combination of the Banjo factor and a propaganda tagging the Federal Government an ‘army of occupation’ to win sentiments in Yorubaland.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/viewpoints/vp217072006.html (3946 words)

	Dr. Omoigui's Account of Miltary Coup of 1975 Against General Gowon
		Yakubu Gowon (who was then Chief of Staff, Army, professionally senior to Muhammed) emerged as the choice of the northern rank and file, barely edging out the charismatic Lt. Col.
		This resulted in part because Gowon was uncomfortable with Mohammed and kept him "out of the loop".
		Gowon replaced the emotionally exhausted Mohammed as the GOC of the badly mauled second division in mid 1968 with Colonel Ibrahim Haruna.
	www.waado.org /nigerdelta/nigeria_facts/MilitaryRule/Omoigui/MurtalaCoup-PartOne.html (2060 words)

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