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 President Obasanjo recounts his decision not to shell Owerri during the Nigerian Civil War, a choice he says saved many civilian lives.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost 50 years after the first military coup in Nigeria that culminated in the Nigerian Civil War, General Ibrahim Babangida, a former military leader of Nigeria who gave himself the title “president ...

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 ...