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 ...

Exploring the structural inhibitions to military intervention in Nigeria. Learn why fragmentation and civil-military ...

THE sun was just beginning to set over the small village of Kakadu, a quiet settlement perched at the point where the three old Nigerian regions kissed each other. It was one of the few places where ...

Following the declaration of Biafra as a sovereign state by Ojukwu on May 30, 1967 and the outbreak of the civil war on July 6, 1967, Enugu was named capital of the seceding nation. The rebel capital ...

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday flagged off the 2026 Armed Forces and Remembrance Day emblem at the presidential Villa, ...

A PDP chieftain, Segun Showunmi, urges President Bola Tinubu to adopt a political solution for Nnamdi Kanu's case to foster ...

Umunne m, I write to you today not in anger, but with a mind sharpened against self-deception. This is neither a letter of ...

The confrontations around the 2023 Lagos governorship election, 2022 and 2025 JAMB glitches, the recent renaming of streets in Lagos, and the controversies over demolitions in Oworonshoki and Ikota in ...

As I observed the unfolding tragedy of what the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has now become, a quiet sadness mingled with a ...

Overall, Sub-Saharan Africa’s average risk score now stands at 47.46, up from 45.63 the previous year. ACIRI concludes that ...

The Trump administration is pausing all immigration applications such as requests for green cards for people from 19 ...