General Yakubu Gowon clarified that the Biafra War was about preserving Nigeria’s unity, not targeting the IgbosGowon ...

Nigerian frustration has been swelled even more by the federal government’s awareness that many outsiders have refused to accept its case for destroying Biafra. Nigeria’s public relations ...

MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty On July 6, 1967, civil war broke out in Nigeria between the country's military and the forces of Biafra, an independent republic proclaimed by ex-Nigerian military officer ...

In 1967, following two coups and turmoil which led to about a million Igbos returning to the south-east of Nigeria, the Republic of Biafra seceded with 33-year-old military officer Emeka Odumegwu ...

Speaking to Newsweek in London, Obasanjo—who served as Nigeria's first elected head of state from 1999 to 2007—says that the heavy-handed tactics of the Nigerian state against pro-Biafra ...

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari and those “who still believe in his Fulani dominated Nigeria”. The Biafran ...

ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria's military has named the Indigenous People of Biafra a terrorist organization, targeting a movement that 50 years ago tried to create a state for the Igbo people.

Hundreds of people from former Nigeria's Eastern Region – renamed Republic of Biafra during a three-year-long independence between 1967 and 1970 – are calling for independence and are accusing ...

He boasted that the convention scheduled to hold from November 29, 2024, to 3 December in Lahti, Finland, would lead to the Restoration of Biafra Liberation. According to him, Nigeria has nothing ...

The subsequent Biafra rebellion did not end until 1970 and left more than a million Igbo dead. Yet the Igbo remain a major force in Nigeria, comprising nearly a fifth of the population and dominating ...

However, in 1960, Nigeria was granted independence. Violence and coups ensued. In response to Biafra’s secession, the Nigerian government, backed by the former colonial master, countered with a ...

His name was Chukwuebuka Aneke. I had not seen him for the best part of a decade because I must live in exile from my homeland, Biafra Land, annexed by Nigeria after the terrible war of 1967-1970.