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Kanu has long championed the secession of Nigeria’s south-east region, a demand the Nigerian constitution forbids. The last ...

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 ...

The Convener/National Chairman, Igbo Agenda Dialogue,  Chekwas Okorie, on Wednesday, said that Igbo people in the 13 states ...

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 ...

I returned from Kigali a few days ago. The highlight of my trip was a harrowing visit to a museum commemorating the million or so Rwandese people who were slaughtered during a genocide that shocked ...

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 year was ...

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.

For the second time in 14 months of cruel civil war, Nigeria’s federal government and Biafra’s secessionist regime were edging toward peace talks last week. Meeting in Niamey, capital of Niger, under ...

ENUGU, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nearly half a century after a civil war in which a million people died, 27-year-old Okoli Ikedi is part of a new protest movement in southeastern Nigeria calling for an ...