General Yakubu Gowon being told he had been overthrown as the Head of State in Nigeria while he was away attending an Organization of African Unity conference in Uganda, on the 29th of July 1975.

He was very shocked at first, immediately he arose from his sit at the African Unity conference, while moving out of the conference he was being interviewed by foreign Journalist, who were very desperate to know maybe he was aware of the news of his overthrown as the Head of state.