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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.
Five heads of state were deposed in a military coup (Nnamdi Azikiwe, Yakubu Gowon, Shehu Shagari, Muhammadu Buhari and Ernest Shonekan). Four heads of state died in office, two were assassinated during a military coup (Aguiyi-Ironsi [6] and Murtala Muhammed), [7] while two died of natural causes (Sani Abacha and Umaru Musa Yar'Adua). [8]
Yakubu Gowon: Head of Federal Military Government (1966-1975) Murtala Mohammed: Head of State (1975–76) Rear-Admiral Joseph Edet Akinwale Wey: Chief of Naval Staff (1964 –1973), Chief of Staff of the Supreme Headquarters (1973–75) Nelson Bossman Soroh: Chief of Naval Staff (1973–1975) Michael Ayinde Adelanwa: Chief of Naval Staff (1975 ...
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.
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 ...
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.