Nnamdi Kanu, the prominent separatist leader at the helm of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), faces a new trial in Nigeria amid a backdrop of legal turmoil and political implications. This ...

Author William Boyd has recalled how his work was shaped by an experience during the Nigerian Civil War involving “six or seven drunk soldiers with their AK-47s”. The writer, known for novels ...

The Asagba of Asaba, Epiphany Azinge, has called on the Federal Government to acknowledge the 1967 Asaba massacre and offer ...

The third play in the Ufot Family Cycle tells the story of a married couple who lived through a Nigerian civil war in the ...

By Nnamdi Ojiego Following the recent revelation by former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), that absolved the Igbo ethnic group from any blame for the 1966 coup, prominent ...

The series of things that led to the civil war supports the view of Babangida. Firstly, between 50,000 and 100,000 Igbos were massacred in cold blood in 1966 without Gowon and his lieutenants ...

Nigeria’s former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, has narrated his experience during the Nigerian civil war, describing it as “horrifying and painful”. The war, otherwise known as the ...

Author William Boyd has recalled how his work was shaped by an experience during the Nigerian Civil War involving “six or seven drunk soldiers with their AK-47s”. The writer, known for novels ...

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