Tag: Nigerian civil war
Exclusive interview: Details of how Isaac Boro was killed – Gen Alabi-Isama
Yes, whether you like it or not you will end up with it. Whether you like it or not. You…
1969 Video/ Soyinka at 88: What I lost during civil war detention
Professor Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Laureate, is 88 years old today. He was born on 13 July, 1933 in Abeokuta.…
Biafra: Uzodimma asks for special fund for south east states
Uzodimma made the call Wednesday, according to a release circulated by his Chief Press Secretary, Oguwike Nwachuku.
Pius Anyim: Civil War memorial arcade needed to highlight tragedy
Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim on Tuesday called for the establishment of a memorial arcade with detailed account of the Nigerian…
Buhari pays tribute to martyrs of Nigerian civil war
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday paid tribute to the patriotic martyrs of the Nigerian civil war.
Never again should Nigeria lose another 2.5 million people to war – Soyinka
Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nigeria's only Nobel Laureate has warned that the nation cannot afford to lose another 2.5 million people…
Throwback: Day Biafrans shot Obasanjo in the buttocks-Gen Alabi Isama
Brigadier General Godwin Alabi Isama, former Chief of Staff at the 3rd Marine Commando during the civil war and Lieutenant…
Adeboye Shares His Nsukka Civil War Experience: How We Were Trapped
Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, has revealed how he was saved by divine…
Flashback on Civil War: Awolowo Defends Himself
Last week (6 July) was the 52nd anniversary of the declaration of the civil war in Nigeria, a chapter in…
Flashback: 6 July in History of Nigeria: Civil War Broke Out, Events Leading to It
On 6 July 1967, the Biafra War erupted. It lasted more than two years, claiming over 600,000 lives. Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu…
Civil War Memoirs: Why I have to kill Igbos – Benjamin Adekunle
Stories abound about the exploits of the late Brigadier General Benjamin Adekunle during the country’s civil war from 1967-1970. The…
Arms Industry In Nigeria: Matters Arising
By Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema President Muhammadu Buhari’s call to Nigeria’s Defence Ministry to outline a plan for the development of…
A Peek Into A Warrior’s Diary
By Adebayo Lamikanra Almost 44 years after the end of the Nigerian Civil War, there are so few eye witness…
Nigeria’s Adichie says bestseller helped recall painful past
Nigeria’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of the bestseller “Half of a Yellow Sun”, said writing a novel about the Nigerian…
Civil War: The Many Lies Of Obasanjo
Brigadier-General Godwin Alabi-Isama (retd.), Chief of Staff of the famous 3rd Marine Commando during the Nigerian Civil War, pokes holes…
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…
Ojukwu Better Than Hitler
Chief Richard Akinjide, Second Republic Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, offers his recollections of the civil war years to GBENRO…
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…
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…
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…
America’s Secret Files On Ojukwu (2)
Confidential US dispatches on the Nigerian Civil War yield a wounding portrait of Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who was painted by…
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…
The Harmattan Of A Patriarch
By Tade Ipadeola Professor Chinua Achebe has made a new book of a very eventful life. It is his most…
Biafra: Endless Sniping
Weeks after it broke out, the debate provoked by Chinua Achebe’s There Was A Country is still as bruising and…
Achebe’s War Memoir: Time For Ceasefire
More than a month after The Guardian of London published an excerpt from Professor Chinua Achebe’s latest book, There Was…
Time To Militarise The National Youth Service Corps
By Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema Outside the way in which he concluded the Nigerian civil war of 1967-1970, the best legacy…