Former Nigerian Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd.), has insisted that the Biafra War was never aimed at the Igbo ...

Nigeria’s former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd.), says the country, despite facing many challenges, is in a ...

The Biafran war, which formally ended 50 years ago today, came to define post-colonial Africa for many in the west. Images of determined young Biafran soldiers eager to fight the might of the ...

Speaking during an interview on Arise News, Gowon explained that the war effort under his leadership was directed at stopping secession and preserving the country’s unity, not targeting any ...

She is passionate about helping Africans document their history and has launched a digital archive to preserve Biafran War Memories. The opinions in this commentary are solely of the author’s.

The call relates back to the Biafran War, which was preceded by the flight of Igbos across Nigeria to their ancestral homelands in the east of the country. On May 30, 1967, a former Nigerian ...

Former Nigerian Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has said that the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran ...

THE DEFUNCT Nigerian/Biafran civil war ended with ‘no victor, no vanquished’ but memories and scars of the civil war still hang on communities that were devastated by the ravages of the war.

She is passionate about helping Africans document their history and has launched a digital archive to preserve Biafran War Memories. The opinions in this commentary are solely of the author’s.