Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has commissioned the Bruce Mayrock Memorial, a symbolic tribute to the young American student who gave his life protesting the ...

This conflict, which erupted barely seven years after independence, challenged the very foundations of our unity and exposed ...

Biafra Day is a significant day of remembrance for millions of Nigerians and members of the Igbo community worldwide.

Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu declared the independence of the Republic of Biafra, marking the beginning of a ...

Here are five recent headlines putting Black art in the spotlight, from 17th-century sitters to masters of Nigerian Modernism ...

Protests called by one of Nigeria's main separatist groups over the past four years have resulted in more than 700 deaths, a ...

As Nigeria grieves gospel star Osinachi Nwachukwu’s tragic end, we also pay tribute to other late icons—Sound Sultan, Mohbad, Onyeka Onwenu, Tosyn Bucknor, Victor Uwaifo and Dan Maraya Jos—whose music ...

FORMER Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, on Wednesday said that in spite of the imperfections in democracy, the era of military rule must remain behind Nigeria.Gowon stated this in Abuja at the ...

Former Nigerian Military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, has identified the Biafra civil war as the “most painful episode in Nigeria’s history.” Gowon, however, insisted that the military preserved ...

Author William Boyd has recalled how his work was shaped by an experience during the Nigerian Civil War involving “six or seven drunk soldiers with their AK-47s”. The writer, known for novels ...