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.

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 ...

It was reported January 30th that, in an interview earlier, Ojukwu told United Press International that he would welcome U.S. intervention to end the bitter six-month old civil war caused by Biafra's ...

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

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 ...

Haunted by those pictures of starving children, their eyes bulging, their bodies bloated or matchstick thin, most Americans ask indignantly: Why has the U.S. not done more to relieve such suffering?

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 ...

Two scores and seventeen years ago, faced with the choice of freedom , survival and security on one hand and extinction and perhaps servitude on the other; together with the refusal of General Yakubu ...

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 ...

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 ...

SIR: We are familiar with the fact that truth is the first casualty of war. The Nigerian civil war is not an exception in this regard. For some reasons, the proponents of Biafra still want us to ...