No, former president Olusegun Obasanjo has not said Obafemi Awolowo's food blockade was key to ending Nigerian civil warIN SHORT: Facebook posts claim that Olusegun Obasanjo said the food blockage ...

General Ibrahim Babangida, a former military head of state, has revealed that a commitment made to the Igbos by General ...

Nigeria has a rich and complex history, but not everything you’ve heard is true. From the myth that Mungo Park discovered the ...

I wondered whether General Ibrahim Babangida would go to his grave without writing his memoir. He played such epochal roles ...

The association of Igbos with the coup led to attacks on members of that community around the country and ultimately to the ...

By: Daniel Okonkwo The history of the Nigerian Civil War (1966–1970) continues to evoke strong emotions and differing ...

IN SHORT: Facebook posts claim that Yakubu Gowon has said Britain made him start the 30-month Nigerian civil war. There is no evidence of this. A post on a public Facebook group with over 94,600 ...

Nigeria’s former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, has narrated his experience during the Nigerian civil war, describing ...

A former governorship aspirant in Anambra State and elder statesman, Dr. Chike Obidigbo, has said that foremost Biafran leader, Ikemba Chukwuemeka ...

The series of things that led to the civil war supports the view of Babangida. Firstly, between 50,000 and 100,000 Igbos were massacred in cold blood in 1966 without Gowon and his lieutenants ...

In today’s Nigerian newspapers review programme, Today in the News, Vanguard leads with the story of the former Military ...