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‘Biafra is a dream that haunts me – it was a dream that was on the cusp of being realised and yet failed so painfully,’ recalls Ije Ajibade, telling the story of injustice that has shaped her life 1 day ago My earliest memories of Biafra are the same as my earliest memories of my father. I can …
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If you could have something named after you, what would it be? One does not have the Trumpian urge to plaster one’s name on buildings and allied products. Happily one isn’t a narcissistic moron.
The July 29, 1966, counter-coup in Nigeria was not merely a change of government; it was a seismic event that shattered the fragile unity of the young nation, reversed the political order, and set the country on an inexorable path to civil war. Occurring just seven months after the violent January 15 coup, the July …
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Secret American diplomatic dispatches, spread over 21,000 pages, provide previously unknown information about the Nigerian Civil War Early in the morning of 1 July 1967, Nigeria’s young head of state, Colonel Yakubu Gowon, was feeling uneasy in his office at the Supreme Headquarters, Dodan Barracks in Lagos. The unease was a result of his being …
The Aburi Accord (also known as the Aburi Agreement) represents one of the most consequential yet tragically unfulfilled diplomatic efforts in modern Nigerian history. Held in January 1967 amid escalating ethnic and political tensions, it was a high-stakes meeting of Nigeria’s military leaders aimed at averting civil war. Far from a mere footnote, the Accord …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 