The former military leader, who governed Nigeria from 1966 to 1975, described the civil war — which lasted from July 6, 1967, to January 15, 1970 — as the most challenging chapter of his life. Former ...

Introduction -- Historical background -- The path to war and its beginning -- The second part of the war : from mid-1968 to January 1970 -- Biafra's longevity -- Gowon and Ojukwu : an appraisal of the ...

I returned from Kigali a few days ago. The highlight of my trip was a harrowing visit to a museum commemorating the million or so Rwandese people who were slaughtered during a genocide that shocked ...

The Ogbunigwe was a series of weapons systems locally mass-produced by the Biafrans. These weapons include command detonation mines, improvised explosive devices and rocket-propelled missiles. In his ...

On 15 January 1970, after 30 months of a bloody civil war that claimed the lives of over a million people, the separatist Biafra forces surrendered to the superior power of the Nigerian military. In ...

I was locked in an argument with a friend. He argued that, if not for the saboteurs, the Biafran Army would have fought its way to Lagos and captured it. He refused to understand that an ill-equipped, ...