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

In 1967, Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka tried to stop the country’s Biafra war, in which Nigeria’s Igbo people responded to ...

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President Bola Tinubu’s minister, David Umahi, has commented on the ongoing Biafra agitation in a video that has quickly gone ...

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

A Nigerian doctoral researcher at Cornell University, Omobolanle Joseph Akinniyi, has called for a reshaping of national and ...

Speaking on Arise Television, Kalu revealed that during extensive conversations with Ojukwu in his final years, the former war-time commander made it clear that while the first struggle for Biafra was ...

Ojukwu, the military governor of the Eastern Region, declared the region as an independent sovereign state named the Republic of Biafra on May 30, 1967. On July 6, 1967, the federal government ...

IN SHORT: According to a post on Facebook, US president Donald Trump said he was considering granting Biafra its independence to end insecurity in Nigeria. But there is no evidence to support the ...

IN SHORT: A post circulating on Facebook in late November 2025 claims that jihadists have attacked Sokoto, a city in Nigeria's north-west region, targeting the prison holding Biafra separatist leader ...

The defence team of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnandi Kanu, has warned that the Abuja Federal High Court judgment which convicted ...