Brigadier General Godwin Alabi-Isama (retired) was one of the top players in the military during the Nigerian Civil War, also known as Biafra War. Alabi-Isama served as chief of staff to Brigadier ...

The Nigerian Civil war, which lasted from July 1966 to January 1970, remains the most significant event in the country’s post-independence history in ways reminiscent of the American Civil War. In the ...

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 ...

On May 30, 1967, Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu declared the Eastern Region of Nigeria an independent state—the Republic of Biafra. [Getty Images] Biafra Day is not just a day of remembrance—it’s ...

Former Nigerian Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has described the Biafra civil war as the most painful chapter in Nigeria’s history, while also acknowledging the damaging impact of prolonged ...

NNEWI, Nigeria (AP) – The late leader of Nigeria’s breakaway Republic of Biafra received final honors Friday from a nation he once fought bitterly against in a war that saw 1 million people killed.

CNN — 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 ...

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Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra state, has urged Ndigbo to move beyond the Nigerian civil war and channel their energy towards national participation and development, noting that the conflict ...

·'Why people give more information to B/Haram than to Federal Government' Brigadier General Godwin Alabi-Isama (retired) was one of the top players in the military during the Nigerian Civil War, also ...