Filmmaker Meji Alabi directs a landmark BBC Africa Eye documentary about Nigeria's civil war.

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 ...

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 ...

The BBC World Service has announced a landmark documentary on the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, featuring eye-witness accounts and previously unseen archive f ...

The last surviving soldiers of the Nigerian Civil War have shared their harrowing experiences with BBC Africa Eye. The ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has called on people of the South-East region across Nigeria and in the diaspora to observe May 30, 2026, as a solemn day of remembrance for ...

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 ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that disinformation played a critical role in fueling the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970), warning that similar tactics are still being used by insurgents ...

Sir: Perhaps it fits into the faithful fixture of fate that Yakubu Gowon, a key gladiator in the bloody Nigerian civil war of 1967-70, is still alive and going strong at 91. That he has outlived many ...

I first heard about Chinelo Okparanta’s novel earlier this year and the title Under the Udala tree stayed with me, mostly because the Udala fruit is one of my favorite seasonal fruits. My home town ...