He made the call on Sunday in Sokoto at a one-day National Prayer Rally organised by Nigeria Prays
Browsing: General Yakubu Gowon
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
Former Head of the Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan, and the Senate President, David Mark, were also in the meeting held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja
Former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, in his goodwill message on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the reputable elder statesman, said Gowon’s place in the nation’s history is not in contest as it is replete with awesome records of achievements both in and outside power
The Forum spoke in the light of the 80th birthday of Nigeria’s former Head of State, retired General Yakubu Gowon, who it said fought for Nigeria to remain one.
Jonathan said this in Abuja on Saturday in a congratulatory letter he wrote to Gowon to celebrate his 80th birthday coming up on Sunday