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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.

On 15 January 1970, after 30 months of a bloody civil war that claimed the lives of over a million people, the separatist Biafra forces surrendered to the superior power of the Nigerian military. In ...

Former Military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) has identified the January 1966 coup and the subsequent counter-coup of July and September of same year as the immediate causes of the ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has raised serious concern over Nigeria’s prolonged battle with Boko Haram, saying the ...

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo said Thursday that the 30 months old Nigerian Civil War was never meant to exterminate the Igbos. According to him, it was an altruistic attempt to bring “our ...

The former military leader, who governed Nigeria from 1966 to 1975, described the civil war — which lasted from July 6, 1967, to January 15, 1970 — as the most challenging chapter of his life. Former ...

Thursday marks more than 50 years since Chukwuemeka Ojukwu announced the breakaway state of Biafra in the Igbo-majority South-East of Nigeria. Ex-Royal Canadian Air Force pilot Lynn Garrison, now 87, ...

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

Civil war lasted for 30 months. Although we thought it would last for six months. But this fight against insurgents and ...