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Yakubu Gowon was born on 19 October 1934 in what is now Plateau State and trained as an officer at Sandhurst. He became head of state on 1 August 1966 and led Nigeria through the civil war of 1967 to 1970, declaring at its end that there was no victor and no vanquished. He was removed in a bloodless coup in July 1975 while abroad at a summit. He later earned a doctorate at the University of Warwick and taught at the University of Jos.

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