Former Military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) has identified the January 1966 coup and the subsequent counter-coup of July and September of same year as the immediate causes of the ...

The Nigerian civil war of 1967 to 1970 came with extreme humanitarian challenges that forced the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Biafra to seek sanctuary in Oru-Igbo. Civil war literature has, ...

Lecture delivered under the joint auspices of the Geographical Society and the Federalist Society of Nigeria at the University of Ibadan on 16th May, 1970 Consequently, at the outbreak of the civil ...

Evelyn Okororie had just returned home from the market in Nigeria's Midwest region, when neighbors informed her that an airstrike had killed her mother, brother and three of her children. The year was ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: When a country is threatened with dissolution or partition it strikes at the heart of nationalist sentiment. For that reason, civil wars can be uncommonly ...

Is there an ‘Igbo problem’ that has persisted and increasingly grown more complex, compounded and nation-threatening in post-colonial Nigeria? In chapter 9 of his slim classic, ‘The Trouble with ...

Abia State Executive Council has approved the comprehensive renovation and upgrading of the Ojukwu Bunker and National War ...

The situation is such that if an average secondary school student in Nigeria is asked: “Who are the heroes of Nigeria?” the responses would be quick, predictable, and almost exclusively male: Nnamdi ...