A former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd), has given reasons he refused to align with any political party in the country. The elder statesman made this known on Wednesday in Abuja when he ...

Gowon later married Victoria Zakari, a nurse, on April 19, 1969. In acknowledging Musa as his son in a statement issued yesterday, Gen. Gowon, now 81 nevertheless asked for privacy after a very ...

Following reports that the Igbo son of Nigeria’s former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, Mr. Musa Gowon allegedly released three weeks ago from California Prisons in the United States ...

The air-conditioned office of Nigeria’s leader, Major General Yakubu Gowon, is on the second floor of a villa in the Obalende quarter of Lagos. A well-thumbed copy of Carl Sandburg’s Abraham ...

Obasanjo responded to Gowon’s revelation that he had appealed to Abacha to spare Obasanjo during his imprisonment Gowon shared that he sent a letter to Abacha urging him to show mercy ...

Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, on Saturday described a former Head of State, Gen.Yakubu Gowon (retd), as a rare gift to the state, Nigeria and the world at large. Lalong, in his 85th ...

Former military head of state, General Yakubu Gowon (retd.), has confirmed his paternity of a 48-year-old man recently deported after spending 22-years in a United States prison. The former ...

General Yakubu Gowon, rtd, a former Head of State, has said that he became the nation’s leader at age 31 by accident. Gowon became the youngest ever Head of State on August 1, 1966 and remains ...

Yakubo Gowon, who was head of state during the Biafran war, says he and Ojukwu became reconciled friends to move Nigeria forward Former Nigerian head of state General Yakubo Gowon, in power during ...

Truth remains that both Gowon and Ojukwu made the resolution of the crises leading to the civil war impossible, but while Ojukwu could use the July 29 coup and the pogroms that followed as a ...

Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Retd), has called for respect for his privacy and that of his family after accepting a 48-year-old man, Musa Gowon, as his son. Gowon had been engaged in a ...

Musa Gowon was sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug-related offences while he was part of a Colombian cartel Musa Gowon / Facebook The son of former Nigerian military head of state Yakubu ...