Between 1967 and 1970, Nigeria prosecuted a civil war, one of the bloodiest in the annals of modern history. And at the centre of that terrible national tragedy is that man of destiny, General Yakubu Gowon, the head of the military administration—the second in the history of Nigeria’s chequered post-independence political history. After the deep euphoria of independence, the 1966 coup and the aftermath of the civil war were too disjunctive…
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