Yakubu Dan-Yumma "Jack" Gowon GCFR (born 19 October 1934) is a retired Nigerian army general and military leader. As head of state of Nigeria, Gowon presided...

Yakubu Gowon Airport (IATA: JOS, ICAO: DNJO), also known as Jos Airport, is an airport serving Jos, the capital of the Plateau State of Nigeria. It was...

Yakubu Gowon Stadium (formerly Liberation Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium in the Elekahia suburb of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. It is currently used mostly...

Victoria Hansatu Gowon (born 22 August 1946) is a Nigerian nurse and the third first lady of Nigeria. She is married to General Yakubu Gowon who was Nigerian...

July 1966 that brought General Yakubu Gowon to power. In May 1967, shortly before the start of the Nigerian Civil War, Gowon restructured the four regions...

Representatives Yakubu Gowon (born 1934), head of state of Nigeria Yakubu Gowon Airport Yakubu Gowon Stadium Yakubu Itua (1941–2006), Nigerian jurist Yakubu Tali...

permanent head of state. Murtala Muhammed served 199 days in the position. Yakubu Gowon served the longest continuous period of almost nine years before being...

Gowon or Go Won may refer to: Yakubu Gowon (born 1934), head of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria 1966-1975 Kowon County, North Korea "Go Won"...

declared its independence from Nigeria in 1967. Nigeria was led by General Yakubu Gowon, and Biafra by Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka "Emeka" Odumegwu Ojukwu...

state of Nigeria by age. The youngest person to become head of state was Yakubu Gowon, who at the age of 31, assumed office after the assassination of Johnson...

was briefly considered as Supreme Commander before the appointment of Yakubu Gowon. He also masterminded the July 1966 counter coup, which evidently, sparked...

April 2019. NYSC was created on the 22 of May 1973 during the general Yakubu Gowon regime as an avenue for the reconciliation, reconstruction, and rebuilding...

Mohammed which ousted General Aguiyi Ironsi replacing him with General Yakubu Gowon. Following the outbreak of the civil war, Babangida was recalled and...

First Nigerian Republic. Heads of State of the military regimes General Yakubu Gowon Major General Muhammadu Buhari General Ibrahim Babangida General Abdulsalam...

Gen Yakubu Gowon and the Biafran troop were led by Col Chukuemeka Ojukwu. The war lasted for three years, from 6 Jul 1967 to 15 Jan 1970. Gowon had just...

created from the Northern Region during the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon. As an army officer, Kyari had survived a mutiny by a battalion under...

Gen. Yakubu Gowon. Following the Nigerian Civil War, from 1970 to 1971, Shagari was appointed by the military head of state General Yakubu Gowon as the...

Aguiyi-Ironsi desperately tried to contact his Army Chief of Staff, Yakubu Gowon, but he was unreachable. In the early hours of the morning, the Government...

the federal government. Under the military administration of General Yakubu Gowon, the country was further divided into nineteen states in 1976 and Plateau...

General Yakubu Gowon assumed power on 1 August 1966 in a coup that deposed General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi. In May 1967 he reorganized the four regions in...

Bank of Nigeria from 1967 to 1975 during the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon. He was later elected governor of Cross River State (1979–1983) in the...

chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Yakubu Gowon as the head of the new military government. In 1975, General Yakubu Gowon was deposed and Brigadier Murtala...

the live and reign of General Aguiyi-Ironsi and see the succession of Yakubu Gowon as Head of State of the Republic of Nigeria. In 1967, he was promoted...

when Nigeria moved its capital from Lagos to Abuja. It is located at Yakubu Gowon Crescent, The Three Arms Zone, Asokoro, Abuja, FCT, Nigeria. Several...

until 1993). A previous Supreme Military Council was established by Yakubu Gowon and ruled Nigeria from 1966–1979 until the Second Nigerian Republic....

1975 when a faction of junior Armed Forces officers overthrew General Yakubu Gowon (who himself took power in the 1966 counter-coup). Colonel Joseph Nanven...

January 1970 at Dodan Barracks in Lagos, in the presence of General Yakubu Gowon, Effiong announced the end of the Biafran conflict. "I, Major-General...

longer recognize Lt. Colonel Yakubu Gowon as head of the federal military government on March 2, 1967. Lt. Colonel Gowon assumed full powers as commander-in-chief...

administrations of military governor Samuel Ogbemudia and head of state, General Yakubu Gowon between 1966 and 1975. In 1966, he was a member of an advisory committee...

Government Chief Whip in the Federal House of Representatives. During Yakubu Gowon's administration, he served as the Federal Commissioner for Communications...