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, ...

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 ...

Ore, a town in Ondo State, is known to be theatre-of-war during the Nigerian Civil War. When Rotimi Akeredolu was elected as governor of Ondo State, he promised to transform …Says it’s time to beg ...

ABUJA, NIGERIA -- A Nigerian court on Thursday convicted separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu of seven terrorism-related charges.

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 ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said disinformation played a significant role in the Nigerian Civil War that happened from 1967 to 1970. Obasanjo spoke at the sixth edition of the annual ...

A court in Nigeria on Thursday convicted separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu of all seven terrorism-related charges brought against ...

A Nigerian court on Thursday jailed Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu for life for "terrorism", ending a decade-old legal ...

Obasanjo emphasised the need for Nigeria to take history, particularly military history, more seriously as a tool for conflict resolution and national development. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo ...

Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has described the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) as the most challenging phase of his life. He stated that his decisions during the conflict were guided ...

These powerful books help us understand a complicated time in our history, and the political and personal legacy that it still carries. These powerful books help us understand a complicated time in ...

A group, Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, has listed reasons why the zone always registers poor figures in youth enlistment into the Nigerian Army. Recent statistics showed that in the ...