Tag: biafra

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October 3, 2012

Achebe hits hard: “The genocidal Biafran war still haunts Nigeria”

by Chinua Achebe The persecution of the Igbos didn’t end with the Biafran conflict. Until the nation faces up to ...

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September 27, 2012

There was a country: Chinua Achebe breaks long silence, publishes Biafran memoir

by Isi Esene Chinua Achebe, one of Africa’s most legendary writer, has published his long-awaited memoir about his experience during ...

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April 22, 2012

Dele Momodu: In search of ‘Shock Therapy’

   Nigeria today has paid an unprecedented debt to the militants than we ever paid to the Igbos who lost ...

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March 23, 2012

Was Ojukwu really a patriot? – Ola Balogun writes in The Punch

Could an independent Igbo homeland have actually thrived as a landlocked entity, cut off from the oil-rich riverine areas inhabited ...

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March 4, 2012

“My husband, my brother, my friend, my child” – Read Bianca’s gripping tribute to Ojukwu

by Lekan Olanrewaju “You span the breadth of human experience – full of laughter, joy, kindness”. “You were the father any ...

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March 2, 2012

TRIBUTE : @iamsimown writes about Ojukwu – The Man that saw tomorrow

by Simon Obinna Nwachuya It is sunset in the land of the rising sun. Today with gloom, the  sun shines ...

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March 1, 2012

R.I.P. Ojukwu – See photos from the Lagos funeral of the late Biafra leader

by Lekan Olanrewaju Eminent Nigerians gathered last week at the Tafawa Balewa Square for the Lagos leg of the multiple funeral ...

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February 27, 2012

Biafra movie in the works? Nigerian filmmaker secures $400,000

by Lekan Olanrewaju A Nigerian filmmaker based in the United States has announced plans to shoot a movie on the former ...

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OluwapelumiNovember 26, 2011

Ikemba of Nnewi, Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu is dead

by Seyi Lawal Reports reaching YNaija can confirm that the Ikemba of Nnewi and Biafran warlord Dim Chukwuma Odimegwu Ojukwu is dead. He passed on late ...

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