He said: “If a Nigerian who is 18 years can vote, such a person should also be qualified to be voted for and whether or not such person can be elected should be left in the hands of the electorate. Most importantly, age is not a barrier to intellectual capability and that has been in most countries led by young people. Here in Nigeria, General Yakubu Gowon was Head of State at 32.”
Browsing: General Yakubu Gowon
They stated this at an event tagged: “A Day with Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, and Ijaw Literary Icons”
Gowon, who made the commendation at the official commissioning of the new Governor’s Office complex in Government House, Yenagoa, described the edifice as exceptionally beautiful.
The inauguration ceremony was performed at Kaiama, Kolokumo/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State
He made the call on Sunday in Sokoto at a one-day National Prayer Rally organised by Nigeria Prays
The Chairman of the group, Prof. Anya O. Anya, while addressing newsmen shortly after the group concluded its meeting, said the need to stick together as one indivisible people was the way to go
The book, authored by Haruna Yahaya Poloma, would be launched by Alhaji Aminu Dantata, who will be supported by co-launchers that include Alhaji Aliko Dangote, President Dangote Group; and Alhaji Muhammadu Indimi, the President, Oriental Energy Resources Limited.
Ikpeazu announced the donation on Sunday at St. James Methodist Church Nigeria, Ohuhu Circuit 111, Umuda Isingwu, during a thanksgiving service in honour of the State Coordinator of Nigeria Prays, Rev. Chuku Alozie
Such impunity and callousness has rarely been seen in the annals of world history. Not even Hitler’s Nazis that gassed 6 million innocent Jews and Gypsies to death in concentration camps during the Second World War spoke with such pride and joy about their sheer barbarism and horrendous atrocities either at the Nuremberg Tribunals where they were put on trial or at any other time after the conclusion of the war
Gowon said this on Tuesday after a closed door meeting with Buhari in the Presidential Villa, Abuja
According to Bamaiyi, what Nigerians refer to as “Abacha loot” is a media creation
In a condolence message issued by his Media Office on Friday in Lagos, Tinubu also praised Ogbemudia’s record of infrastructural development in the old Mid-West region
The President, who called from London, extended his deepest condolences to General Gowon and his family, urging them to take solace in the fact that Mrs. Audu lived a worthy and exemplary life
The song rendered in the video was the classic Christian hymn by Isaac Watts: “Oh God our help in ages past”
This was revealed on Thursday by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal
Gowon, who was represented by his brother, Dauda Gowon, as Chairman of the occasion, commended the organisers of the award and congratulated the awardees, as well as urged them to keep up the goodwill
The former Military Head of State, who said the Nigerian military will do its best to meet the December deadline, however, maintained that nobody can really and confidently talk about the particular time any military operation was going to end
“The objective when we founded ECOWAS (in May 1975) was for an organization that will work for the benefit of all people in the Community and pending when the dream of a United States of Africa is realized, West Africa can show the way,” Gowon said during an interview after a meeting on Tuesday with the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo, at the Commission’s Abuja headquarters located on a Crescent named after the Nigerian Statesman
While recalling the prediction that the country would disintegrate in 2015, Gowon declared that those who made the prediction did not reckon with Nigeria’s ability to solve its problems
In their separate messages, Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Francois Hollande, Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, Rwandan leader Paul Kagame and Prime Minister Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger congratulated Buhari on his victory and Nigerians for conducting a credible election that would ensure a peaceful transfer of power from one elected administration to another