Former Nigeria’s Head of state and elder statesman, General Yakubu Gowon (retd), has explained why he championed the creation of 12 states in Nigeria while he was in office as head of state. Gowon ...

The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has appealed to the National Assembly to ensure the speedy passage of legislation required to formalize the renaming of the University of Abuja after former Head of ...

The leaders made the remarks as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) marks its 50th anniversary.

Nigeria’s former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has declared that military governance has no future in Nigeria, urging the country to deepen its democratic culture despite its ...

Abdullahi Mohammed, former chief of staff to Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Umaru Yar'Adua, is dead.Mohammed died in the ...

Between 1967 and 1970, Nigeria prosecuted a blood civil war, one of the bloodiest in the annals of modern history. And at the center of that terrible national tragedy is that man of destiny, General ...

It was Fidel Castro who once used such an expression while facing trial for the July 26 attack on Moncada Barracks, Castro who defended himself at that trial declared “Condenmade, no importa, la ...

Gowon said this while speaking in a special interview he granted to the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Service on Wednesday, January 15, 2020, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of ...

Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has described the Nigerian Civil War as the most difficult chapter of his life, stressing that his actions during the conflict were never motivated by ...

Just few days to commence the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal hearing, a former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has urged Nigerians to accept the decisions of the court as final, ...