May 24 2020 | Radio Biafra What a day! What a month! What a Year! 30th May 2016, shall forever remain evergreen in the hearts of IPOB and lovers of freedom. Unarmed Men and Women felled in cold bloods in their hundreds, scores kidnapped and massacred in cold blood. Shouts of agony echoed in…
May 23 2020 | Radio Biafra On the cool and peaceful morning of Thursday, September 14, 2017, a combined team of the Nigerian Police Force, Department of State Services [DSS], coupled with the Nigerian Army invaded the home of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. At first,…
May 22 2020 | Radio Biafra Chimaobi Okafor before her painful demise on 16th February, 2018 was a hardcore Biafran activist and freedom fighter. The heroic deeds of Comrade Chimaobi Okafor cannot be over emphasised. She had entered where no Nigerian media personnel can enter and from there she had to report the…
May 20 2020 | Radio Biafra The Abagana Ambush took effect on March 31, 1968. It was an ambush led and carried out by Biafran guerrilla troops. The Abagana ambush was led by Major Jonathan Uchendu that wiped out the Nigerian 2 Division. Of the 6,000 Nigerian troops ambushed, only a very small…
May 19 2020 | Radio Biafra Heroic events and the recapturing of Owerri, Aba and Umuahia known as Operation OAU. Operation OAU took effect from September 2 – October 15, 1968, and it was a bloody battle between Nigerian third [3rd] Marine Commando Division also known as [3MCDO] and the Biafran twelve [12] Division…
May 18 2020 | Radio Biafra Remembering Professor Gordian O. Ezekwe Professor Gordian O. Ezekwe and his team were very courageous, they were also very talented and inventive. At the outbreak of hostilities meted out on Biafrans, the Biafran armed forces were poorly equipped as compared to the Nigerian Army with arms and…
May 17 2020 | Radio Biafra Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo born 16 August 1932 – died 1967 was a Biafran poet, teacher, and librarian, who died fighting for the Independence of Biafra. He is today widely acknowledged as an outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one of the major modernist writers of the 20th century.…
May 16 2020 | Radio Biafra Remembering Sir Dr. Akanu Ibiam, Sir Francis Akanu Ibiam KCMG KBE, was born in the year 29 November 1906 – and died 1 July 1995. Sir Akanu Ibiam studied in Glasgow and Cambridge graduated from the University of Andrews with Medical degree in 1934 proceeded and served as…
May 15 2020 | Radio Biafra Professor Chinua Achebe (born Mazi Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013), was a Biafran novelist, Poet, Professor, and Critic. His first novel “Things Fall Apart” was published in the year 1958 after a very rigorous delay by his Publisher’s, Things Fall Apart is often…
May 14 2020 | Radio Biafra Remembering Corporal Nwafor, it was June 30, 1968. Nigeria and Biafra, were at war. The Nigerian government Federal troops were advancing to Onitsha from Enugu, shelling and firing from armoured tanks. At Ugwu Nwasike, Ogidi, about 20 kilometres to the commercial town, the overwhelmed Biafrans and Biafran soldiers…