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EmekaBlue:
Today is my mother birthday also

Happy Birthday Mummy

I pray God restore your sight back. Amen

EmekaBlue:
Today is my mother birthday also

Happy Birthday Mummy

I pray God restore your sight back. Amen

Image123:
Lolz, a 90 year old general that has achieved everything in life with good health and salvation. ipod logic is really tough.

Image123:
But biafrans think and teach their gullible followers that they lost everything and hold Gowon and somehow Buhari responsible and unforgivable.

naptu2:
President Olusegun Obasanjo's tribute to General Gowon at the pre-birthday public lecture yesterday.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy4sXscRJkc?si=PnO-WYJQdYERyK8M

Presidency Nigeria @NGRPresident

Realtruth2023:
He didn't. The Biafrans still made a surrender in their own terms, just as the Japanese did after the Hiroshima Bombing.

Image123:
i doubt Obilamba will be in this one, it's not good for the optics with his ipod fans, himself being a closet ringleader.

General Gowon Visits The Uncompleted Black Arts Festival Village | Later FESTAC Town | March 1975

Saturday, March 22nd, 1975.

Footage of General Yakubu Gowon, the head of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria visiting the incomplete building project which was to serve as the residence of participants in the forthcoming Second African and Black Festival of Arts and Culture.

Reuters Text:

"Work on the multi-million-naira housing project for the Second African and Black Festival of Arts and Culture has been delayed because of an industrial action and shipping problems.

The Co-ordinator of the project, Mr. Simon Shodipo, explained this to General Yakubu Gowon during an inspection tour of the village on Saturday (22 Match).

Mr. Shodipo said about 20 per cent of the houses in the village would not be completed in time for the Festival...due to open in Nigeria later this year.

He blamed construction delays of two months on strikes by building workers demanding civil services pay increases. He added that this was aggravated by the constant congestion at Lagos Port.

The village will accommodate some 150,000 people -- more than two thirds of those expected at the Festival.

However, General Gowon re-assured Festival officials that there would be no accommodation problem."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn-Cs2-YteM?si=90DMDEf4aEbaop7s

Opening of Express Way Leading to Eko Bridge | Gen. Yakubu Gowon Meets Walter Scheel | October 1971

Friday, October 15th, 1971.

Reuters Text:

"An important new stretch of motorway, designed to speed up traffic flow into Lagos, was opened on Friday. Nigerian Federal Commissioner for Works and Housing Femi Okunnu cut the tape. And watching was the visiting West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel. He later drove over the new expressway in a motorcade. The new road, bridging over a mile of creeks and swamps, cost over five million pounds sterling and was built with the help of a West German firm of contractors. It has been called a most successful example of co-operation between the two countries.

On Friday afternoon, Herr Scheel and his West German mission met the Nigerian head of state, General Yakubu Gowon. Talks about further West German loans to the country were expected to crop up during Herr Scheel's two-day visit--which has been undertaken to see as much as possible of Nigeria's development programmes. He was also to have talks with the Nigerian Finance Commissioner, during which it was agreed that private investment by German firms could be an important instrument in the further development of Nigeria. They discussed ways of encouraging investment. Another principle issue of talks was the future relationship of African countries with the European Common Market."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD3CgoJ7FRE?si=dw0Uvpi0XWXoGPck

Thanksgiving Service At End of Nigerian Civil War | Maj. Gen. Gowon & Rr. Adm. Wey | Jan. 1970

Sunday, January 18th 1970.

Footage of a special Thanksgiving Service at the Anglican Cathedral in Lagos to mark the ending of the Nigerian Civil War.

Attending were Major General Yakubu Gowon, the military Head of State, and Rear Admiral Akinwale Wey, the Chief of Naval Staff.

Special prayers were offered for reconciliation with ethnic Igbos who comprised most of the population of the defunct secessionist state of Biafra.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt0Vp7vRyVY?si=aWaQTEjPWpL61SZ0