Tag: Biafra

Powerful Igbo leaders in Nigeria have rejected calls for the breakaway state of Biafra to be created for their ethnic ...

Facts have emerged on the real reason the Turkish government have met with Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People ...

Economic activities in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra state, south-east Nigeria were shut down Tuesday May 30th in commemoration ...

Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since the declaration of ...

Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since an independent republic ...

Gabriel Ukuwagi was only 14 when he joined the Biafran army in 1967 to fight against Nigeria in a combat ...

Nnamdi Kanu walks slowly across the courtyard of his family home in Umuahia, southeast Nigeria, as a crowd of supporters ...

Nigeria on Tuesday marks 50 years since the declaration of an independent Republic of Biafra plunged the country into a ...

Fifty years ago, the Igbo people of southeast Nigeria seceded, declaring an independent Republic of Biafra and sparking a brutal ...

Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has traced the humanitarian crisis in the North-East to the nation’s failure ...

Nigeria's military on Wednesday announced it would look into alleged human rights abuses by troops, including in the fight against ...

The Sultan of Sokoto is the father of the Fulani people, the foremost traditional ruler in northern Nigeria and the ...

Every 15th of January in Nigeria is celebrated as Armed Forces and Remembrance Day. That date is unique because of ...

"In the early hours of January 15 1966, 51 years ago today, the man in this picture, Major Kaduna Nzeogwu, ...

That day was Thursday, January 22nd, 2016. The occasion was the Economic and Security Summit of South East Nigeria. President ...

That day was Thursday, January 22nd, 2016. The occasion was the Economic and Security Summit of South East Nigeria. President ...

I love this country with every fiber of my being. For three generations before me my forefathers, including my great ...

Recently, the Nigerian Army announced the commencement of what it deviously termed Exercise Python Dance in the southeastern part of ...

Nigeria's security forces have killed more than 150 peaceful protestors since August 2015, a human rights group has claimed. Amnesty ...

So many writers have done so many stories about the civil war that broke out in Nigeria between 1967 and ...