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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

By Gesinde Fregene AdedejiIn the darkest days of the Nigerian Civil War, when artillery thundered across the Atlantic theatre and uncertainty hung thick over the nation, one woman walked calmly into ...