Fifty-three years after the Biafran War ended, the impact of the devastating Nigerian civil war remains mostly undercovered in the public imagination save for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2006 ...

The former military leader, who governed Nigeria from 1966 to 1975, described the civil war — which lasted from July 6, 1967, to January 15, 1970 — as the most challenging chapter of his life.

Former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, has recounted a civil war experience that nearly took his life after his command, 82 Battalion, came under heavy bombardment from ...