Leader of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign States of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Solomon Chukwu, has said that contrary to the widely held belief in the South East, the people of the Niger ...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to retain the unity of the West African country as pro-Biafra activists continue to campaign for secession. Buhari served in the Nigerian military against ...

ONITSHA, Nigeria – Members of Nigeria's Biafran separatist movement on Tuesday marked 50 years after civil war saw more than one million people die trying to create a state for the Igbo people.

Former military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon has said the Biafra civil war was never his choice. Gowon was presiding over the affairs of Nigeria during the civil war from July 6, 1967 to January ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian leading a movement calling for the secession of part of southeast Nigeria has been arrested and is to stand trial in the capital, Abuja, authorities said. Nnamdi Kanu, ...

Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has described agitations for a breakaway state of Biafra in the country's southeast as a "cry for attention," Nigeria's Premium Times reported. Thousands of ...

Ijaw Youths have begged the Igbo people for forgiveness over the role their parents played against the Igbos in the Nigeria/Biafra Civil War of 1967/70. The youths noted that if the level of awareness ...

Former military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.), has said the Biafra civil war was never his choice. Gowon was presiding over the affairs of Nigeria during the civil war from July 6, 1967 to ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on Monday, likened former Military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon’s legacy to that of German dictator Adolf Hitler who slaughtered six million Jews. IPOB ...

NNEWI, Nigeria (AP) — The late leader of Nigeria’s breakaway Republic of Biafra received final honors Friday from a nation he once fought bitterly against in a war that saw 1 million people killed.

Soyinka has set the record straight on why he crossed the line to Biafra territory for a meeting with Ojukwu during the Nigerian Civil War Between 1967 and 1970, the Nigerian State crossed weapons ...

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