When was yakubu gowon born

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With peace and plenty : fourteenth independence anniversal broadcast by Yakubu Gowon Book 4 editions published in in English and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide. Whatever possibility of a peaceful solution to the dispute between the federal government and the disaffected Ibos of the Eastern Region may have existed when Gowon assumed command evaporated later in the year with the massacre of thousands of Ibos in the North.

Faced with an Ibo-led secession movement in the East, Gowon moved to abolish Nigeria's four existing regions, dividing the country instead into 12 states and thus securing the loyalty of minority ethnic groups in the East while supplying a new national vision for those who still rallied to the federal cause.

Nonetheless, in a bitterly divisive month war with the Eastern "Biafran" secessionists broke out. At the end of the war in Gowon showed genuine magnanimity toward the defeated Biafrans and successfully promoted a spirit of national reconciliation, but his failure to achieve a prompt restoration of civilian rule or to establish effective management for Nigeria under his own military regime led to his overthrow in a bloodless coup in July During his rule, the Nigerian government successfully prevented Biafran secession during the —70 Nigerian Civil War.

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