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 ...

The Nigerian Civil war, which lasted from July 1966 to January 1970, remains the most significant event in the country’s post-independence history in ways reminiscent of the American Civil War. In the ...

Machine generated contents note: 1. Scholarly Trends, Issues, and Themes -- Introduction / Ogechukwu Ezekwem -- pt. I ON THE HISTORY OF THE NIGERIA-BIAFRA WAR -- 2. Background to the Nigerian Civil ...

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 ...

It was reported January 30th that, in an interview earlier, Ojukwu told United Press International that he would welcome U.S. intervention to end the bitter six-month old civil war caused by Biafra's ...

Lecture delivered under the joint auspices of the Geographical Society and the Federalist Society of Nigeria at the University of Ibadan on 16th May, 1970 CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK In any situation ...

Obasanjo made the remarks on Wednesday in Abuja at the Sixth Edition of the Annual Nigerian Civil War Symposium, organised by the Army War College Nigeria (AWCN). The event's theme was “The Role of ...