Yakubu Dan-Yumma Gowon is a retired Nigerian Army general and military leader who served as the country's president from August 1, 1966, to July 29, 1975. As the third head of state during his reign. Gowon presided over the contentious Nigerian Civil War, which lasted from July 6, 1967, to January 15, 1970, in an
Alhaji (Sir) Ahmadu Bello was the Sardauna of Sokoto and the head of Nigeria's northern region during the final years of the British administration and the early years of independence. He was, however, brutally murdered at his home during a coup d'état in 1966, one of several incidents that exemplified Nigeria's political unpredictability. Sir Ahmadu
Nigeria’s adoption of Africa as the centrepiece of its foreign policy to liberate the continent from external influence, especially political and economic exploitation by the Western capitalist world, seems to be under threat