The BBC World Service has announced a landmark documentary on the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said Nigerian troops should not have fought Biafran soldiers during the Nigerian Civil War, describing civil ...

The BBC World Service and Nigerian filmmaker Meji Alabi are gearing up to launch their documentary on the Nigerian Civil War, ...

Former member of the Enugu State House of Assembly and ex-South-East spokesman for President Bola Tinubu, Denge Onoh, has stated that former Head of ...

The lawyer argued that the Nigerian government under Gowon sabotaged the best opportunity for a peaceful resolution to the crisis that engulfed Nigeria before the declaration of Biafra. Barrister Aloy ...

Churches across Nigeria’s South-East region have been directed by the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) to hold memorial and thanksgiving ...

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. The Nigerian civil war was inevitable. But ...

Obasanjo emphasised the need for Nigeria to take history, particularly military history, more seriously as a tool for conflict resolution and national development. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo ...

Nigerian-American writer Chinelo Okparanta speaks to Franklyne Ikediasor about her debut novel, Nigerian civil war and homosexuality in Nigeria. I first heard about Chinelo Okparanta’s novel earlier ...

When preparing to portray a refugee of war-torn Africa for Drift, Cynthia Erivo didn't have to turn very far for research: Her mother was only 15 years old when the Biafran War, also known as the ...

Reviewed by Chima J. Korieh in Journal of African history (Cambridge, England) 60 (3) 2019, pages 501-502. In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops entered Asaba in pursuit ...