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 ...

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

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 ...

A Nigerian court on Thursday jailed Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu for life for "terrorism", ending a decade-old legal saga in which the prosecution sought the death penalty.

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, ...

It is not yet doomsday in Nigeria. There is still some chance to rescue us from ourselves, even if the buffeting winds of ...

There are widespread attacks across the country affecting many religious and ethnic groups. Many of them defy a simple ...

Stakeholders at a UNICEF–Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, and DAME symposium on Tuesday warned that Nigeria’s worsening child ...