Tag: Nigerian civil war
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…