Nigerians celebrate January 15 of every year as Armed Forces Remembrance Day (AFRD). Also known simply as Remembrance Day, it is a day set aside to honour the servicemen of the Nigerian Armed Forces ...
Nasiru Salami, a 76-year-old civil war veteran, shares his concerns about the poor treatment of retired Nigerian Army personnel, highlighting unpaid war bonuses.
Biafra. But the civil war that followed led to the secessionists’ defeat and its integration into Nigeria. In 2012, Nnamdi Kanu, then 45, prosecuted in Nigeria for treason, reignited the ...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is a Nigerian organization believed to be a separatist organization seeking to restore ...
The army says Nigerian soldiers have killed 79 militants and suspected kidnappers over the past week in an operation ...
By Missang Oyongha On August 29, 1970 the New York Times published a report by its Nigeria correspondent, William Borders. It was about the life in exile of the Biafran secessionist leader, ...
The leader and founder of the of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been held in detention since 2021, on charges of treasonable felony and other allied charges. First ...
Col Nasiru Salami (retd), a civil war veteran and the Secretary of the Nigerian Legion, Lagos Chapter, has expressed ...
In a recent operation, Nigerian soldiers killed 79 militants and kidnappers, arresting 252 individuals and freeing 67 ...
When the Nigeria-Biafra war ended in January 1970, there was gloom in Igboland. Even as the then Head of State General Yakubu Gowon made the famous announcement of “No Victor, No Vanquished,” the ...
It’s just before 3pm on a weekday and 17-year-old Paul Ngwa* is returning home from his job at a phone and watch repair ...