Gowon's broadcast to the nation - Dividing Nigeria into Twelve States
Dear Country men:As you are all aware Nigeria has been immersed in an extremely gravecrisis for almost eighteen months. We have now reached a mostcrit...
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Dear Country men:As you are all aware Nigeria has been immersed in an extremely gravecrisis for almost eighteen months. We have now reached a mostcrit...
Read moreWe, the Chiefs, Elders and Representatives of Eastern Nigeria, gathered at this Joint meeting of the Advisory Committee of Chiefs and Elders and the C...
Read moreTHE MEETINGOF THESUPREME MILITARYCOUNCILATABURI ACCRA GHANA4-5 JANUARY 19671967PRINTED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTERENUGUCONTENTSPAGEI Introduction ... .....
Read moreThe Supreme Military Council held itsmeeting in Ghana on the 4th-5th January. Those present were:Lt.-Col. Yakubu GowonColonel Robert AdebayoLt.-Col. O...
Read moreSince I last addressed a meeting of this kind on 26th August, manythings have happened in the country, some of them fraught with suchdisturbing implic...
Read moreThe Supreme Commander and Head of the Federal Military Government hasannounced his desire for an early return to civilian rule. In theview of the Mid-...
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Read moreI have now had time to examine the various administrative agenciesoperating under the previous Government, both at headquarter leveland at the level o...
Read moreFellow country-men and women. I, Major Hassan Usuman Katsina, having been appointed by the Supreme Military Commander as the Military Governor for the...
Read moreTaken from "Adventures in Power Book One: My March Through Prison", by Obafemi Awolowo, McMillan NIgeria, pp 296-302, 1985.CONFIDENTIAL &n...
Read moreViolence has never been an instrument used by us, as founding fathers of the Nigerian Republic, to solve political problems. In the British tradition,...
Read moreThe government of the Federation of Nigeria having ceased to function, the Nigerian Armed Forces have been invited to form an Interim Military Governm...
Read moreIn the name of the Supreme Council of the Revolution of the Nigerian Armed Forces, I declare martial law over the Northern Provinces of Nigeria.The Co...
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