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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A human rights lawyer and lead counsel for the Indigenous People of Biafra, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has affirmed the assertion made by former presidential aide Dr. Reuben Abati that “the Civil War in this ...

The Road to the Country: A Novel, by Chigozie Obioma (Hogarth, a division of Penguin Random House, 384 pages, $29.00) Chigozie Obioma in his new book The Road to the Country chronicles the Nigerian ...

Chigozie Obioma does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

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 ...

Literature, unarguably, is a human-centred enterprise. Accordingly, if literature derives its nourishment from happenings in the human world, then it is an easy conjecture that war, being a reality of ...