The persisting ethnic divisions after the Biafran civil war (1967-70) cost Nigeria the opportunity to industrialise in an efficient manner, says one of the country’s top scientists, Felix Oragwu, who ...

On the 54th anniversary of the Biafran war in Nigeria, a Canadian mercenary pilot speaks to The Africa Report about some of his toughest missions to help Biafra try to neutralise the Nigerian ...

Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), says the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, was never his personal decision but one he took out of necessity to preserve the country’s ...

These powerful books help us understand a complicated time in our history, and the political and personal legacy that it still carries. 10 powerful books that explore the legacy of the Biafran War The ...

NIGERIANS DO NOT speak much of the civil war of 1967-70. Most schools do not teach it in their curriculums. The median age of Nigerians is 17, so only a fraction of the 219m-strong population lived ...

For the second time in 14 months of cruel civil war, Nigeria’s federal government and Biafra’s secessionist regime were edging toward peace talks last week. Meeting in Niamey, capital of Niger, under ...

Chigozie Obioma's latest novel, 'The Road to the Country,' explores love, guilt, and fate against the backdrop of the Biafra ...

Ore, a town in Ondo State, is known to be theatre-of-war during the Nigerian Civil War. When Rotimi Akeredolu was elected as governor of Ondo State, he promised to transform …Says it’s time to beg ...

When preparing to portray a refugee of war-torn Africa for Drift, Cynthia Erivo didn't have to turn very far for research: Her mother was only 15 years old when the Biafran War, also known as the ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Amnesty International said on Friday that Nigeria's army last month killed at least 17 unarmed members of a group calling for secession from Africa's most populous nation, but the ...

This is "one of the greatest things to have happened, not only to my art, but to Nigerian artwork", 93-year-old painter and ...

YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian police said they arrested more than 80 members of a Biafran separatist movement on Friday during one of a series of protests across the oil-rich southeast against ...