Nigerian Civil War experience

Gowon to deliver lecture on
Nigerian Civil War experience
on march 19, 2015 at 1:22 pm in news
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Igbariam (Anambra) – Former Head of State, Gen.
Yakubu Gowon (retd) will on March 25 deliver a lecture
at the 6th convocation ceremony of the Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu Ojukwu University, formerly Anambra
State University.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Fidelis
Okafor, who announced this on Wednesday at a news
conference held at the Igbariam campus of the
university, said that the former head of state would
deliver a lecture on the topic: `No Victor, No
Vanquished: Healing the Nigerian Nation`.
The vice-chancellor said that 14 Ph.D graduates, 54
students of Masters Programmes, 97 post graduate
diploma and 2,800 first degree graduates would be
conferred with degree certificates on March 26.
“Some 45 years ago at the end of the Civil War, Gowon
made an epoch-making speech and he is going to speak
on that.
“It is also an opportunity for this General to come to a
university named after his rival during the war.
“Gowon has never made any public statement on the
event of between 1967 and 1970.
“I think also that he wishes to use the opportunity to
speak to the Igbo people before he exits from this
earth.“
According to him, the event will be the first
convocation of the university since it became
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University.
The vice-chancellor said that the Senate President,
David Mark and the late Chukwuemeka Odumegwu
Ojukwu would be conferred with honourary and post-
humous doctorate degrees respectively at the
convocation.
He said that Mark, Ojukwu and Gowon were special
military men, who distinguished themselves in the
history of Nigeria.
Mr kito