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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 Head of State from 1966 to 1975. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Yakubu Dan-Yumma "Jack" Gowon [1] GCFR (born 19 October 1934) is a Nigerian former Head of State and statesman who led the Federal military government war efforts during the Nigerian Civil War. [ 2 ] Gowon delivered the famous "no victor, no vanquished" speech at the war's end to promote healing and reconciliation. [ 3 ]
Victoria Nwanyiocha Aguyi-Ironsi (21 November 1923 – 23 August 2021) was the second First Lady of Nigeria from 16 January 1966 to 29 July 1966. [1]She was the widow of General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi who was the first Nigerian military head of state, he was killed in Ibadan [2] in a counter coup led by Murtala Muhammed which led to the installation of General Yakubu Gowon.
The initial President of the Supreme Military Council was Maj.-Gen. Yakubu Gowon, Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces. He was replaced by Murtala Muhammed (in 1975) and Olusegun Obasanjo (in 1976) in successive coups.
Mobolaji Olufunso Johnson Listen ⓘ (9 February 1936 – 30 October 2019) was a Nigerian Army Brigadier who served as Military Administrator of the Federal territory of Lagos from January 1966 to May 1967 during the military regime of General Aguyi-Ironsi (to July 1966, and General Gowon subsequently), and then as the pioneer and first Governor of Lagos State from May 1967 to July 1975 during ...
General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi took power after a military coup on 16 January 1966, and was deposed in a counter-coup in 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 into twelve states.
Following the incessant killings of Igbos all over the nation as a result of tribal intolerance and fear of domination by Igbos, Ojukwu, being the southeastern general and Yakubu Gowon who was selected as the supreme general and head of state agreed to hold a peace conference at Aburi, Ghana hosted by General Joseph Ankrah. An agreement of ...
Patrick Chukwuma Nzeogwu was born on 26 February 1937 in Kaduna, Colonial Nigeria.The city was the capital of the Northern Region at the time. Born into an Anioma family, he attended two Christian schools in Kaduna for his elementary and secondary education, the Saint Joseph's Catholic Primary School and the Saint John's College.