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 ...

The Court of Appeal, Abuja, has granted leave to former head of state Gen Yakubu Gowon, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Saad Abubakar III, and the Barewa Old Boys Association (BOBA), to challenge the ...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has granted leave to former Head of State Gen. Yakubu Gowon and others to challenge the judgment of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the Barewa ...

Nigerian Senator, Victor Umeh has called on former Military Head of State, Gen Yakubu Gowon (retd.), to apologise to the Igbo people and document his role in Nigeria’s civil war. Umeh ...

General Ibrahim Babangida, a former military head of state, has revealed that a commitment made to the Igbos by General Yakubu Gowon that their lives were safe in northern Nigeria, was unfulfilled.

UMUAHIA – Former Senate Minority Leader and Senator representing Abia Central District (APGA), Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has urged former Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon ...

IN SHORT: Facebook posts claim that Yakubu Gowon has said Britain made him start the 30-month Nigerian civil war. There is no evidence of this. The post reads: "Just In: 'I didn't start the Biafra ...

Elder statesman and former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon who had leadership thrust ... the closest being Gen. Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida who ruled for eight years before the advent of ...

Gov. Umaru Bago of Niger has congratulated the former Head of State, Retired Gen. Yakubu Gowon on his 90th birthday. This is contained in statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr ...

Gen. Yakubu Gowon, funded massive infrastructure expansions, policies such as the Indigenisation Decree of 1972 inadvertently “provided windfall gains” for a handful of influential individuals ...

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, a lawmaker representing Abia Central Senatorial District, has appealed to former Military Head of State General Yakubu Gowon to write a memoir and document his firsthand ...