The Invasion Of Owerri I was at 14 Division Headquarters at Obinze near Owerri on the morning of the 13th of September to congratulate Nwajei again and celebrate with him the recapture of Oguta. We had not even had a round of laughter yet, not to talk of drinks, when Mr. Ohanu, a Police…
Total Destruction of Enemy Troops at Oguta All enemy attempts to cross the Ebocha bridge in his bid to invade Oguta proved abortive. The Biafran troops of 60 Brigade, stationed at the bridge, beat the enemy back as often as he attacked, until there was a stalemate. On the 9th of September, however, our…
In every sense, the annual commemoration of 30th of May by Biafrans, stands very crucial and memorable in modern history. This very event totally reminds humanity about the worst injustice and genocide that were meted against out Biafrans right from ages till date. Recalling the ordeal that gave birth to the ugly incident which…
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.…