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 ...

According to him, even more fundamentally, those coups led to one of the bloodiest fratricidal conflicts in modern Africa, the thirty-month Nigerian civil war, with devastating consequences that ...

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 ...

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 ...

“While I accept that the unfortunate denial of his mandate amounted to a subversion of the will of the Nigerian people, I was petrified that if Abiola got killed, it could lead to a civil war.

In 1970, following the end of the Nigerian Civil War (1967 to 1970), the date of the observance was changed from November 11 to January 15 by General Yakubu Gowon after Colonel Ojukwu fled into ...

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 ...

He recalls seeing hundreds of dying children while covering the Nigerian Civil War for The Sunday Times Magazine in the 1960s, and witnessing men executed in the heat of battle. Arguably ...