The novelist, who wrote Jame Bond novel Solo, moved to Nigeria with his family in 1964, three years before the Biafran War ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 members quotes ...

“These differences in interpretation were the final trigger for the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War,” he stated.

Nigerian Senator, Victor Umeh has called on former Military Head of State, Gen Yakubu Gowon (retd.), to apologise to the Igbo people and document his role in Nigeria’s civil war. Umeh ...

thereby exacerbating tensions and ultimately leading to the Nigerian Civil War. If there was indeed a deviation from the original commitments made at Aburi, then it is only fitting that it be ...

Apart from the events leading to, and after the Nigerian Civil War, the issues of the unsolved murder of Dele Giwa and especially Babangida’s annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election ...

So, I’ll focus here on his take on the chain of events that led to the Nigerian Civil War, a monumentally devastating war that claimed the lives of nearly 100,000 combatants; took the lives of ...

Babangida recently released his memoir, in which he documented his version of what truly transpired in the infamous 1966 ...

The history of the Nigerian Civil War (1966–1970) continues to evoke strong emotions and differing interpretations. Recently, Femi Fani-Kayode’s post on his Facebook page on the 1966 coup and ...

Babangida write: "Na one terrible time for di Nigerian military ... of dat community around di kontri and ultimately to di civil war wia Igbo leaders bin try to secede from Nigeria in 1967.