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Today in history, we bring to you the legendary Imo state born, award winning band group, “Oriental Brothers” at a square after the Nigerian/Biafra Civil War. The video below shows group of vivacious Igbo people (men and women) despise losing Millions of friends and family members to the war still found time to party. Owerri has
Today in History: Abagana Ambush took place. Abagana Ambush of March 31, 1968 was an ambush by Biafran guerrilla troops led by Major Jonathan Uchendu that wiped out the Nigerian 2 Division. During this ambush, the Nigerian Army suffered the heaviest defeat. in the civil war. Of the 5,000 Nigerian troops ambushed, only a very
Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan, has warned that President Muhammadu Buhari may cause another civil war in Nigeria with the way he is handling the current insecurity across the country. Omokri accused Buhari of threatening the Southeast with civil war 2. In a tweet, the former presidential aide recalled how the
This year’s ‘Biafra Day’ is being commemorated low-key as Nigeria grapples with restrictions put in place to curb the coronavirus pandemic which has spread to all but one state in the West African country. The event is marked every May 30 mostly by pro-Biafra sympathisers and many Igbos in remembrance of the brutal civil war which ended
People without history are people without identity. Most recently and quite unfortunately, the Nigerian government intentionally expunged history from her education curriculum. The personal and bizarre tales of Biafrans have been succinctly subjected to obliteration. The pre and post civil war experience still needs to be told so our kids would actually understand how it