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WBF President to Visit Port Harcourt for World Title Fight

This Day 11 Nov 2024
has confirmed that he will be present when Taiwo Agbaje takes on Loren Japhet of Tanzania for the vacant WBF Featherweight world title on 7 December 7, 2024 at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium in Port Harcourt.
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Obasanjo, Atiku, Others to Grace Onyema Ugochukwu’s 80th Birthday Event in Abuja

This Day 08 Nov 2024
Nigeria . 55 mins ago. Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja ... Obasanjo, understandably, will attend the service at the same church where he was recently honoured alongside his predecessor as Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon ...  They are ... .
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 KENYA AND NIGERIA SHARING A DEADLY VIRUS

This Day 06 Nov 2024
This trait preceded those who benefited from General Yakubu Gowon’s policy of ‘’INDEGINISATION’’ of foreign shops and other businesses ...  Like Gowon, Kenyatta’s beneficiaries became corrupt.
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Time to Reconsider Ties With Israel

This Day 03 Nov 2024
General Yakubu Gowon, our reverred former Head of State, did this in 1973 when he was in power and as Chairman of the then OAU (AU) in order to punish the Jewish State for its attack on the Palestinians during the Yom Kippur War. .
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Baba Ijebu’s Company Faces Litigation over Unpaid Consultancy Fee

This Day 31 Oct 2024
Sport . 22 mins ago. NATIONAL STADIUM BID CONCESSION. Duro Ikhazuagbe  ... The National Stadium in Lagos was built in 1972 by the General Yakubu Gowon Administration ahead of the 1973  2nd All African Games hosted by Nigeria ... .
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Conversations on The Future of Nigeria and Relations with Czech Republic

This Day 31 Oct 2024
That was when General Yakubu Gowon was the military Head of State of Nigeria ... level of influence that people like Obasanjo have, or people like Murtala Muhammed, or even Yakubu Gowon in his own era.
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Keeping Nigeria One as a Task that Must Be Done:The Mythical and Reality Aspects

This Day 27 Oct 2024
Gowon ... For instance, Chief Femi Okunnu, former Commissioner of Works and Housing under the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon, recalled some important legacies left behind by General Gowon the ThisDay newspaper of Wednesday, 23rd October, 2024.
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GOWON’S GONG OF ‘GWO – GWO – GWO NGWO’

This Day 25 Oct 2024
Just as the social media excitement with Mike Ejeagha’s satirical folklore was fading out, former Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, has briefly seized the stage with triumphal beats of his composition on the Nigeria civil war.
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Aliyu: Adesina Has Potential to Lead Nigeria

This Day 25 Oct 2024
Akinwumi Adesina at the 90th birthday celebration of former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon and its implication for Nigeria’s political development and unity ... Akinwumi Adesina’s lecture at General Yakubu Gowon’s 90th birthday anniversary?.
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Yakubu Gowon as the Essence of the Nigeria Project and Spirit

This Day 24 Oct 2024
And at the center of that terrible national tragedy is that man of destiny, General Yakubu Gowon, the head of the military administration—the second in the history of Nigeria’s chequered post-independence political history.
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Picking up the pieces: How Nigeria’s economy can regain lost ground

Business Day Online 21 Oct 2024
Money is not Nigeria’s problem, but how to spend it”—this statement is famously attributed to General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria’s military. read more Picking up the pieces. How Nigeria’s economy can regain lost ground ... .
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Peter Obi’s supporters kick over message to Yakubu Gowon at 90

Business Day Online 20 Oct 2024
Many supporters of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last general elections, have lambasted him. read more Peter Obi’s supporters kick over message to Yakubu Gowon at 90 ... .
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Gowon @ 90: Peter Obi preaches forgiveness, reconciliation as civil war spirit exhumed

Business Day Online 20 Oct 2024
Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, has explained his decision to congratulate General Yakubu Gowon,. read more Gowon @ 90. Peter Obi preaches forgiveness, reconciliation as civil war spirit exhumed ... .
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Civil War Fought to Unite Nigeria, Not to Defeat Any Part, Gowon Insists

This Day 20 Oct 2024
Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) yesterday insisted that the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 to 1970 was fought to keep the country together and not a question of defeating any part of the country.
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Akinwumi Adesina’s keynote address at Yakubu Gowon’s 90th birthday

Business Day Online 19 Oct 2024
Your Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, ably represented by Senator George Akume, CON,. read more Akinwumi Adesina’s keynote address at Yakubu Gowon’s 90th birthday ... .

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