Tag: Biafra
Achebe’s Apocalyptic Valediction
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Chinua Achebe appeared on the world stage in grand style by way of the epochal novel,…
Achebe: Death Of The Storyteller
Chinua Achebe dies at 82, leaving behind a body of works that assures his place in world literature The news…
BIAFRA: Ogbemudia Clarifies US Secret Files
At 80, Brigadier Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia (retd.) is in good health except for a recent accident, which warranted his use…
My Biafran War Reminiscences
By David Odey After reading Chinua Achebe’s There Was A Country and the recent three-part series on the 30-month Nigerian…
Obafemi Awolowo: Hero Of Yoruba, Killer Of Biafra, Betrayed By The North
By Obinna Akukwe Obafemi Awolowo is the undisputed hero of the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria whose wartime policy of starvation…
BIAFRA: The Facts, The Fiction
Placed side by side independent accounts of the Nigerian Civil War, Professor Chinua Achebe’s There Was A Country is a…
Bullet Lodged In Ex-Biafran Soldier’s Body For 44 Years
A bullet lodged for 44 years in the body of Israel Nwokoma, a security guard at a company in Ilupeju,…
Secession Was Anger Taken Too Far
Colonel Paul Ogbebor (retd.), a battalion commander during the Nigerian Civil War, gives JETHRO IBILEKE his recollection of the war…
Obasanjo On Benjamin Adekunle
Olusegun Obasanjo, the man to whom Biafra surrendered, was of the view that Benjamin Adekunle was mentally and physically jaded…
Post-Midwest Liberation
A narrative of the events after Biafra was evicted from the Midwest A month after the Midwest was liberated, Lt…
BIAFRA: The Untold Story of Nigeria’s civil war
Secret American diplomatic dispatches, spread over 21,000 pages, provide previously unknown information about the Nigerian Civil War Early in the…
Biafra: Endless Sniping
Weeks after it broke out, the debate provoked by Chinua Achebe’s There Was A Country is still as bruising and…
Biafra War: Igbo Leaders Deceived Their People, says Ofeimun
Poet, literary and social critic Mr Odia Ofeimun has said Biafran war leaders should be sent to the Nuremberg Trial…
Boko Haram Crises: Uwazuruike Orders Igbos Out Of North
Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazruike has ordered Igbos…
Army Denies Killing MASSOB Members
The Nigerian Army has denied killing members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)…
Ojukwu’s Virtues Extolled
A group of Christians from the South East zone has extolled the virtues of Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the Ikemba Nnewi,…