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 ...

Fifty-Six years after the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War that claimed an estimated three million lives on both sides, the Igbo Nation will begin an annual adoration and thanksgiving to God for surviving the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Section 41 (1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria provides that: “Every citizen of Nigeria is ...

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 ...

·Says whoever does not want state police is a coward·'Why people give more information to B/Haram than to Federal Government'Brigadier General Godwin Alabi-Isama (retired) was one of the top players ...

CNN — Evelyn Okororie had just returned home from the market in Nigeria's Midwest region, when neighbors informed her that an airstrike had killed her mother, brother and three of her children. The ...

Nigerian-American writer Chinelo Okparanta speaks to Franklyne Ikediasor about her debut novel, Nigerian civil war and homosexuality in Nigeria. 'Under the Udala Trees' by Chinelo Okparanta I first ...

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 ...