Interview - This is 58 years since the declaration of the state of Biafra by Col. Emeka Ojukwu. What do you think is the significance of that declaration?

Nigeria’s current president, Muhammadu Buhari, who as a major in the federal army during the war was responsible for stopping food supplies entering the Biafran enclave via Onitsha, has said ...

Nigerian troops entering Port Harcourt during the Biafran War in 1968 [File: Getty Images] This is how my father remembered it. The year was 1966 and he, a bright and ambitious boy of 13 or 14 (no ...

In the aftermath of the war, the Nigerian government did not want to impose any form of collective punishment. Felix Nwankwo Oragwu and others helped develop some of the weapons that Biafran ...

Amnesty International said 150 activists died on Biafra Day in 2016. The Nigerian Biafran War is a controversial history that many are still unwilling to talk about and if you do talk about it ...

For decades, no mention was made in Nigeria of the Biafran War that began 50 years ago, on July 6, 1967. Today, that civil war and its consequences are at the center of a fierce debate. In ...

For decades, no mention was made in Nigeria of the Biafran War that began 50 years ago, on July 6, 1967. Today, that civil war and its consequences are at the center of a fierce debate. In ...

Nearly 50 years after the Biafran War (July 6, 1967 – January 15, 1970) which almost destroyed the unity of Nigeria, its agitators have refused to give up the struggle. This struggle by some ...

On July 29, 1966, northern Nigerian troops led a counter-coup against the Igbo-dominated junta in the former capital Lagos. A year later, the Biafran war began. Its consequences are felt to this day.