Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The security services claim the IPOB is securing weapons and uniforms and creating ...

There's a dangerous influx of small weapons and light arms into Nigeria in recent times. Who exactly is behind this? Since the turn of the year, personnel of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have ...

On July 7, 1967, when the Nigerian civil war began, the censors of the federal military government stamped out all use of the phrase “civil war" in news dispatches going overseas. The Nigerians ...

Nigeria has designated a secessionist movement calling for an independent state of Biafra, a republic that existed in the 1960s and witnessed a deadly civil war, as a terrorist organization. Nigerian ...

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 ...

Umuahia, the capital of Abia State, is a city that has been part of history. In the area of commerce, it is a strategic town for trading and movement of goods to different parts of the country, most ...

For the second time in 14 months of cruel civil war, Nigeria’s federal government and Biafra’s secessionist regime were edging toward peace talks last week. Meeting in Niamey, capital of Niger, under ...