Former Military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) has identified the January 1966 coup and the subsequent counter-coup of July and September of same year as the immediate causes of the ...

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has said that the Senate’s opposition to immortalizing former National Electoral Commission, NEC, Chairman, Professor Humphrey Nwosu, confirms ...

Former Nigerian Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has described the Biafra civil war as the most painful chapter in Nigeria’s history, while also acknowledging the damaging impact of prolonged ...

Obasanjo emphasised the need for Nigeria to take history, particularly military history, more seriously as a tool for conflict resolution and national development. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo ...

NNEWI, Nigeria (AP) – The late leader of Nigeria’s breakaway Republic of Biafra received final honors Friday from a nation he once fought bitterly against in a war that saw 1 million people killed.

On the Nigerian Civil War, Gowon described it as “the most painful episode in Nigeria’s history,” but said it ultimately reaffirmed the country's commitment to unity. Speaking in Abuja at the ...