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 ...
A human rights lawyer and lead counsel for the Indigenous People of Biafra, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has affirmed the assertion made by former presidential aide Dr. Reuben Abati that “the Civil War in this ...
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 ...
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 ...