In 1967, Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka tried to stop the country’s Biafra war, in which Nigeria’s Igbo people responded to violence by seceding from the rest of the country. They proclaimed a new ...

When the south-east region of Nigeria declared itself to be the independent state of Biafra, civil war broke out in May 1967. More than a million people died before the fighting stopped. In 2021, ...

Ngozi Orabueze, the second-in-command to the detained Biafra activist, Simon Ekpa, has accused Finland of being a stooge for Nigeria over his (Ekpa) continued detention. Orabueze, known as the Deputy ...

Biafra activist, Dr. Ngozi Orabueze has claimed that European countries’ quest for oil resources is the reason for persistent killings and insecurity in the South-East region of Nigeria. Orabueze, ...

Vanguard reports that the Pope, during his Angelus address, from his balcony at the Apostolic Palace, publicly welcomed and greeted the IPOB members. Speaking more on the event, the IPOB Media and ...

Despite the Biafra war being one of the deadliest in African history, Nigeria has done nothing to commemorate the millions of innocent lives lost. I returned from Kigali a few days ago. The highlight ...

DURING a full year of civil war in Nigeria, the secessionist state of Biafra has banked more on winning the world’s sympathy than a military victory. Last week the Biafrans had an undeniable claim to ...

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