Obasanjo emphasised the need for Nigeria to take history, particularly military history, more seriously as a tool for conflict resolution and national development. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo ...

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 ...

Lecture delivered under the joint auspices of the Geographical Society and the Federalist Society of Nigeria at the University of Ibadan on 16th May, 1970 Consequently, at the outbreak of the civil ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said disinformation played a significant role in the Nigerian Civil War that happened from 1967 to 1970. Obasanjo spoke at the sixth edition of the annual ...

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 ...

Reviewed by Chima J. Korieh in Journal of African history (Cambridge, England) 60 (3) 2019, pages 501-502. In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops entered Asaba in pursuit ...

The problem of armed crime in late twentieth-century Nigeria was closely connected to the events of the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970). Legal records from the secessionist Republic of Biafra reveal ...

Evelyn Okororie had just returned home from the market in Nigeria's Midwest region, when neighbors informed her that an airstrike had killed her mother, brother and three of her children. The year was ...

Former Military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) has identified the January 1966 coup and the subsequent counter-coup of July and September of same year as the immediate causes of the ...