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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sierra Leone’s President has conferred honours on two Senior Nigerian defence chiefs for their role during the country’s civil war.

Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has described the Nigerian civil war period (July 6, 1967 – January 15, 1970) as the most difficult period of his life. Gowon made this known in Abuja ...

Section 41 (1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria provides that: “Every citizen of Nigeria is entitled to move freely throughout Nigeria and to reside in any part thereof, and ...

In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops entered Asaba in pursuit of the retreating Biafran army, slaughtering thousands of civilians and leaving the town in ruins. News of ...

Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has described the Nigerian Civil War as the most difficult chapter of his life, stressing that his actions during the conflict were never motivated by ...

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.

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The Igbo nation, yesterday, offered prayers of thanksgiving to God for survival, resilience and preservation 56 years after the Nigerian civil war, as leaders and faithful gathered at the Holy Ghost ...