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.

Nigerian-American writer Chinelo Okparanta speaks to Franklyne Ikediasor about her debut novel, Nigerian civil war and homosexuality in Nigeria. I first heard about Chinelo Okparanta’s novel earlier ...

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 ...

The signs are ominous, and strangely familiar: communal warfare raging in the politically volatile Muslim Northern regions, with supporters of the ruling party stabbed, hacked or shot; churches, ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said disinformation played a significant role in the Nigerian Civil War that happened from 1967 to 1970. Obasanjo spoke at the sixth edition of the annual ...

Reviewed by Chima J. Korieh in Journal of African history (Cambridge, England) 60 (3) 2019, pages 501-502. In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops entered Asaba in pursuit ...

Nigeria – often called the “Giant of Africa” – is Africa’s most populous country with over 200 million citizens. While travel brochures talk about vast lands and incredibly diverse people, its modern ...

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 ...

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 ...

“With deep sorrow and abiding faith in God’s eternal promises,” the family of Dr. Henry Chionuma announces his passing on Saturday, August 9. He was 74 years old. In his obituary, Chionuma was ...

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 ...