Yakubu Dan-Yumma "Jack" Gowon GCFR (born 19 October 1934) is a Nigerian former Head of State and statesman who led the Federal military government war...

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...

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...

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...

was briefly considered as Supreme Commander before the appointment of Yakubu Gowon. During the war, he commandeered Nigeria's second infantry division which...

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

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"...

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...

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...

Yakubu Gowon (born 1934), Head of state of Nigeria Yakubu Itua (1941–2006), Nigerian jurist Yakubu Tali, Ghanaian politician Surname Abubakari Yakubu...

the countercoup insisted that Lieutenant Colonel Yakubu Gowon be made head of state, although both Gowon and Ojukwu were of the same rank in the Nigerian...

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

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

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...

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...

the Nigerian government during the military regime of Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, to "reconstruct, reconcile and rebuild the country after the Nigerian...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

remaining 5% being Taroh, Borghum, and Siyawa. Nigeria's former president, Yakubu Gowon, is from the Kanke LGA. The postal code of the area is 933. "Post Offices-...

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...

Federal Republic (MFR) Queen Elizabeth II Nnamdi Azikiwe Obafemi Awolowo Yakubu Gowon Nelson Mandela Muammar Gaddafi Olusegun Obasanjo Shehu Shagari Muhammadu...

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...

coup led by Murtala Muhammed which led to the installation of General Yakubu Gowon. She hailed from Ohokobo Afara in Umuahia North Local Government Area...

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...