May 08 2020 | Radio Biafra Remembering The Young Lad – Daniel Lawrence Daniel Lawrence was born a mulatto boy to a British Woman from Liverpool, at the outbreak of the war he enrolled into the Biafran Army and he was known as ‘Pampas’ by his team mates in the Army. Daniel Lawrence’s father…
May 08 2020 | Radio Biafra General Philip Effiong, was born in year 18 November 1925 – and died 6the day of November 2003. General Philip Effiong was the first Vice President and the second President of the Republic of Biafra during the Biafra genocidal war christened Nigerian Civil War of 1967 to…
May 07 2020 | Radio Biafra His Royal Highness Chief Frank Opigo Dawai III, Ama Nanaowei of Angiama was a Biafran statesman politician, educationist and a philanthropist. He graduated in 1953 as the first graduate of Central/Western Ijaw land who later served as Assistant Registrar, Student Union. In 1967, Chief Frank Opigo became…
May 06 2020 | Radio Biafra Bruce Baruch Mayrock born 6th May 1949 – died 30 May 1969 was from Old Westbury, New York, Bruce Mayrock was a student at Columbia University who set himself ablaze at the premises of the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 29 May 1969. He lit himself…
May 05 2020 | Radio Biafra Captain August “Augie” Harvey Martin and Gladys Frank Riddle Martin (1919-1968) Captain August “Augie” Harvey Martin was born in Los Angeles, California in 1919. He was an American pilot and Tuskegee Airman. In 1955 he became the first African American to attain the rank of Captain…
May 04 2020 | Radio Biafra DIM CHUKWUEMEKA ODUMEGWU OJUKWU (IKEMBA NNEWI, EZE IGBO GBURUGBURU) On 30th May 1967, after due consultations with Eastern Consultative Assembly, was Ojukwu asked by his parliamentary members to declare Biafra, Ojukwu declared the Old Eastern region as an Independent State known as Biafra. This was because of…
Asaba, in her day before the massacre was a quiet town of about 10,000 people, was a mile across the River Niger from the bustling and much larger market town of Onitsha. Ferryboats were used to travel between the two towns and a lot of commerce existed between both good communication and market transaction until…
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…
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…
On Thursday 30th May 2019, Biafrans all over the world, will be solemnly observing yet another memorial for our slain heroes and heroines who spiritedly and sacrificially poured out their blood in order that we may live. There is an African adage which says that: “Tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it…