History

Often termed as a brother’s war, the Asaba massacre began with the military campaign on the midwestern region on August 9, 1967. This offensive led by Colonel Victor Banjo, in a…
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***written by — Christopher Griffin*** During the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970), France chose to support Biafra, but only on a limited scale, providing mercenaries and obsolete…
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Mugabe was born to a poor Shona family in Kutama, Southern Rhodesia on 21 February 1924. Following an education at Kutama College and the University of Fort Hare, he worked as a…
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Our compatriots in South Africa are today indirect victims of the sins of their fathers. No sin goes unpunished! On April 15, 1985 the Hon. Minister for Internal Affairs, General…
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King Jaja of Opobo (full name: Jubo Jubogha ; 1821–1891) was a merchant prince and the founder of Opobo city-state in an area that is now the Rivers state of Nigeria. Born in…
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“Saro-Wiwa, who was chained in the legs and hands, was marched to the condemned cell which was directly opposite the gallows where he and others would be hanged. An eyewitness,…
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Documents have surfaced on how global rights group, Amnesty International, wrote letters to military dictators and high-handed Presidents demanding the release of several persons who…
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— Description – On December 15, 1968, the American Jewish Congress issued a memorandum titled “The Tragedy of Biafra.” Phil Baum, director of the Commission on International Affairs…
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Former Nigerian aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that the crisis that is occurring in the Nigeria has shown that the people of the southwest and middle belt fought on the…
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(Being excerpts from the speech of Chief Richard Akinjide (SAN), first and second Republic Minister, at the public presentation of the book “Fellow Country Men- the story of Coup…
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