The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared May 30, 2026 as a Remembrance Day for Biafran heroes and heroines and announced a sit-at-home across communities in the South-East.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, led by Nnamdi Kanu, has declared a sit-at-home on May 30, 2026 to mark the annual ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has announced a total lockdown across the South-East region of Nigeria on May 30, 2026, to mark “Biafran Heroes and Heroines Remembrance Day.” The announcement ...

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 ...

On May 30, 1967, Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu declared the Eastern Region of Nigeria an independent state—the Republic of Biafra. [Getty Images] Biafra Day is not just a day of remembrance—it’s ...

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.

Soyinka has set the record straight on why he crossed the line to Biafra territory for a meeting with Ojukwu during the Nigerian Civil War Between 1967 and 1970, the Nigerian State crossed weapons ...

The Nigerian Civil War was an iconically gruesome conflict, recorded in the newly ubiquitous medium of color television and the photographs of Don McCullin. Its immediate origins lay in a military ...

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 ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has announced a total lockdown across the South-East region on May 30, 2026, to mark ...