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 ...

Every year, Nigeria celebrates the Armed Forces Remembrance Day on January 15. But that date represents two epochs in ...

Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra state, has urged Ndigbo to move beyond the Nigerian civil war and channel their energy towards national participation and development, noting that the conflict ...

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.

It was reported January 30th that, in an interview earlier, Ojukwu told United Press International that he would welcome U.S. intervention to end the bitter six-month old civil war caused by Biafra's ...

Major Godwin Onyefuru, a retired Nigerian Army officer, still carries the scars of the 1966 coup that reshaped the nation’s history. Now 84 and visually impaired, Onyefuru reflects on his harrowing ...

On the Nigerian Civil War, Gowon described it as “the most painful episode in Nigeria’s history,” but said it ultimately reaffirmed the country's commitment to unity. Speaking in Abuja at the ...

•We must learn to live together and forgive one another •How I was detained for blowing up Niger Bridge From Jude Owuamanam, ...