Shine Gomnan soji na farko a jihar Rivers. Bayan an kirkireta daga tsohon yankin kudancin nigeria (Eastern Region Nigeria). Yayi mulki daga watan Mayu shekarar 1967 zuwa watan yuli 1975. A lokacin mulkin shugaba Yakubu Gawon na mulkin soji a Nigeria. Yana daya daga cikin mamba na kungiyar soji mai iko (Supreme Military Council).47 http://www.waado.org/environment/FedGovt_NigerDelta/BayelsaInvasion/IjawsReactToInvasion/DieteSpiffReflectsOnInvasion.html http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Nigeria_federal_states.htm