Former President Obasanjo recounts his decision not to shell Owerri during the Nigerian Civil War, a choice he says saved many civilian lives.

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 ...

Former Nigerian Military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, has identified the Biafra civil war as the “most painful episode in Nigeria’s history.” Gowon, however, insisted that the military preserved ...

Wars associated with secessionist movements often have multiple names, some are associated with the secessionists, others with the country from which the secessionists are trying to secede. The ...

The Nigerian Civil war, which lasted from July 1966 to January 1970, remains the most significant event in the country’s post-independence history in ways reminiscent of the American Civil War. In the ...