A new Irish documentary reveals how Irish missionaries risked their lives to save millions from starvation during the Nigerian Civil War. Known as the Biafran War, it raged from 1967 to 1970 between the government of Nigeria and the eastern region of Nigerian that had broken away, which called itself the Republic of Biafra. Assisted by…
The image so often associated with Africa – a child with stick-thin limbs and swollen belly – dates back to the first televised famine, the Biafra war. The man who understood the power of that image was an Oxford-educated Nigerian soldier, Emeka Ojukwu. Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, to use his full name, proclaimed…
Your Eminence, lovers of freedom, members of Count Carl Gustaf Von Rosen’s family and my fellow Biafra citizen. Today I pen down in tears this Eulogy in remembrance of Count Carl Gustaf Von, a Biafran pilot who hails from Sweden for his indulgence, and magnificent valor during the height of the pogrom from Nigeria and…
Uncle Sunday Onwuka, was a promising young man of seventeen when the war broke out. The genocidal Nigerian army murdered him in cold blood. He was such a loving personality the survivors of the war passed his story down to my generation. Listening to the stories told about him I have always broken down…
IPOB PRESS RELEASE As Biafrans both home and in the diaspora, including friends and lovers of freedom, prepare for the annual 30th of May Remembrance this year in our unique and special way, we the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and it’s leadership worldwide wish to reiterate again that Biafrans will bring the…
Being a British born woman and by the grace of God a representative for the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), my memories/experiences of May 30th are somewhat unique. Prior to 2012 I had little knowledge of the Biafran war despite been born in the late sixties, certainly I had no idea then, that Britain in…
IPOB PRESS RELEASE Going by the confirmation and realization among many that ongoing Fulanisation and Islamisation process constitute a clear and present danger to non-Fulani Nigerians, we say good morning to the former president Olusegun Obasanjo, who is only now merely echoing what our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been saying repeatedly for years.…
Biafrans are a people carved out for total annihilation by Britain and their collaborators, using the Nigerian state as a tool. To realize this evil dream, all sorts of inhumane and degrading treatments have been exacted on the peace-loving people of Biafra. This can be mirrored in the several genocidal acts meted out on…
The United Nations is an intergovernmental body with a mission to maintain peace, security, and human rights while offering humanitarian aids and promoting sustainable development. The UN principal organs include the General Assembly, the Security Council, the International Court of Justice, and more. Some believe that the body is truly for peace and…
“There has been genocide, for example on the occasion of the 1966 massacres … Two areas have suffered badly [from the fighting]. Firstly the region between the towns of Benin and Asaba where only widows and orphans remain, Federal troops having for unknown reasons massacred all the men. According to eyewitnesses of that massacre the…