Nigerians celebrate January 15 of every year as Armed Forces Remembrance Day (AFRD). Also known simply as Remembrance Day, it is a day set aside to honour the servicemen of the Nigerian Armed Forces ...

If we are really serious about moving forward as a nation, we need to re-think the celebration of Armed Forces Remembrance Day on 15 January.

By Missang Oyongha On August 29, 1970 the New York Times published a report by its Nigeria correspondent, William Borders. It was about the life in exile of the Biafran secessionist leader, ...

“As a young boy in late primary to secondary school, immediately after the Nigeria-Biafra war, “ My father was a Nigerian Police officer but was on the Biafra side at some point but was given ...

Nigerian actress Stella Damasus has shared ... it’s a Greek name my original surname was Ojukwu but that changed during the Biafra war where my people were attacked in asaba because they thought ...

from his enlistment into the Nigerian Army in October 1967 to being sent straight to the battlefield for the Biafra war just after six weeks of training. According to Salami, who is now the ...

“Remember, we have clamoured for this commission since the end of the Nigeria-Biafra war without success. “It is only Tinubu who has demonstrated his love for us by establishing this commissio ...

The army says Nigerian soldiers have killed 79 militants and suspected kidnappers over the past week in an operation ...

It also honours veterans of World War I and II as well ... Wars and battled the separatist Biafra Army for three years from 1967 to January 15, 1970, to keep Nigeria one. They have been fighting ...