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 ...

No, former Nigerian head of state Yakubu Gowon has not said Britain made him start civil warIN SHORT: Facebook posts claim that Yakubu Gowon has said Britain made him start the 30-month Nigerian civil ...

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

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

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

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

Almost 60 years after the first military coup in Nigeria that culminated in the Nigerian Civil War, General Ibrahim Babangida, a former military leader of Nigeria who gave himself the title “president ...

Anambra Senator Victor Umeh has called on Yakubu Gowon to apologise to Igbos and document his role in Nigeria’s civil war.

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

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