Who Is General Yakubu Gowon? Is Yakubu Gowon Dead or Alive?
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Gowon’s military journey commenced when he joined the Nigerian Army in 1954, and he was commissioned as a second lieutenant on his 21st birthday in 1955.
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His military education included training at the prestigious Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the UK, Staff College in Camberley, UK, and the Joint Staff College in Latimer in 1965.
His military career saw him participate in United Nations Peacekeeping Forces in the Congo in 1960-61 and 1963. Remarkably, by 1966, he had risen to the rank of battalion commander, still holding the rank of lieutenant colonel.
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