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.

Former Nigeria President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has lamented that Nigeria is now more divided than it was during the civil war. About 3 million Nigerians lost their lives in a civil war that began on ...

On 15 January 1970, after 30 months of a bloody civil war that claimed the lives of over a million people, the separatist Biafra forces surrendered to the superior power of the Nigerian military. In ...

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo said Thursday that the 30 months old Nigerian Civil War was never meant to exterminate the Igbos. According to him, it was an altruistic attempt to bring “our ...

Former Military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) has identified the January 1966 coup and the subsequent counter-coup of July and September of same year as the immediate causes of the ...

Nigeria – often called the “Giant of Africa” – is Africa’s most populous country with over 200 million citizens. While travel brochures talk about vast lands and incredibly diverse people, its modern ...

A Makinde-backed faction expels the ex-Rivers governor as Wike loyalists call a rival convention, pushing the once-dominant party towards an open split ahead of the 2027 polls. Nigeria’s main ...

The former military leader, who governed Nigeria from 1966 to 1975, described the civil war — which lasted from July 6, 1967, to January 15, 1970 — as the most challenging chapter of his life. Former ...

NIGERIANS DO NOT speak much of the civil war of 1967-70. Most schools do not teach it in their curriculums. The median age of Nigerians is 17, so only a fraction of the 219m-strong population lived ...

Civil war lasted for 30 months. Although we thought it would last for six months. But this fight against insurgents and criminals has ...

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed worry that the fight against Boko Haram in Nigeria has lasted longer than the country’s civil war that took place between 1967 and 1970.