Nigeria’s Igbo Leaders Reject Call For Biafra State
Powerful Igbo leaders in Nigeria have rejected calls for the breakaway state of Biafra to be created for their ethnic ...
Tag: Nigerian Civil War
Biafra’s Military Veterans
Gabriel Ukuwagi was only 14 when he joined the Biafran army in 1967 to fight against Nigeria in a combat ...
A Painful Chapter In Nigeria’s History
Fifty years ago, the Igbo people of southeast Nigeria seceded, declaring an independent Republic of Biafra and sparking a brutal ...
We Failed To Learn From Biafran War — Ekweremadu
Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has traced the humanitarian crisis in the North-East to the nation’s failure ...
The Fulani Republic Of Nigeria (Part 1)
The Sultan of Sokoto is the father of the Fulani people, the foremost traditional ruler in northern Nigeria and the ...
What If We All Have It?
Every 15th of January in Nigeria is celebrated as Armed Forces and Remembrance Day. That date is unique because of ...
Tribute To Major Kaduna Nzeogwu
"In the early hours of January 15 1966, 51 years ago today, the man in this picture, Major Kaduna Nzeogwu, ...
Is Nigeria Really One Nation?
I love this country with every fiber of my being. For three generations before me my forefathers, including my great ...
Nigerian Army and the Macabre Dance of Pythons In Igboland
Recently, the Nigerian Army announced the commencement of what it deviously termed Exercise Python Dance in the southeastern part of ...
A Reflection, Retrospection, Introspection And Speculation
When Chief Obafemi Awolowo (1909-1987), the late former AP/UPN Opposition Party leader, passed away in Nigeria in 1987, the late ...
How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo
Nigerian novelist: How I was banned from speaking Igbo In our series of letters from African journalists, Nigerian novelist and ...
Nigeria Security Forces ‘killed 150 Pro-Biafra Protesters’
Nigeria's security forces have killed more than 150 peaceful protestors since August 2015, a human rights group has claimed. Amnesty ...
The Agility Of Youth And The Wisdom Of Old Age
So many writers have done so many stories about the civil war that broke out in Nigeria between 1967 and ...
Nigerian Government Is Suppressing And Persecuting Biafrans And Biafran Independence Agitation
At the end of the Biafran War many experts came to the conclusion that genocide had been committed against the ...
The Heart And Soul Of Nnamdi Kanu
In my essay titled "Head Bloodied But Not Bowed And The Ascension Of President-Elect Donald J. Trump" (Part 1) I ...
Who, In Fact, Is Killing Biafra?
About a year ago, I wrote an article titled “Biafra is a Challenge, not a Solution”. In that article which ...
Lagos As The Most Viable State May Secede
Nna, what types of insults are these? Insults, what do you mean by insults? Please stop jare! Lagos State is ...
Igbo & Hausa Will Make Peace If Yoruba Contest Next Presidency
What is the best way to unite Hausa and Igbo? Yoruba Presidency! If some of the speculations bear out, Buhari ...