He urged people to always stand for the truth and stressed the need for forgiveness, reconciliation, and unity across faiths and ethnicities.
Sadly after that came the horrendous pogroms and slaughter of the Igbo in the North which eventually led to the civil war in which millions of...
Igbos should forgive me. I would like to confess before I die. Death has refused to come for me; my long life is no longer a...
Gowon looked nothing like Abraham Lincoln. For the circumstances that led to the American Civil War differed from the Biafran War. While the Biafrans wanted to...
The brief rumours of Gowon’s “death” about a fortnight ago prompted me to tell him what I think of his legacy as Nigeria’s erstwhile longest serving...
Gowon, who is also one of the founding fathers of ECOWAS in an open letter he delivered to the President of the ECOWAS Commission, for onward...
Nothing I have written seeks to justify the January coup. I wish it never took place. I wish the hotheaded young ‘revolutionaries’ had reflected on their...
Military experts have since floored the argument because his position did not make him a custodian of the armoury. Interestingly, extracts of the Police Special Branch...
But we must persist in our efforts to fight this ugly scourge and those behind it. Besides ensuring that fake news merchants face the full wrath...
There were speculations in a section of the social media that the General passed on aged 89.