President Bola Tinubu’s minister, David Umahi, has commented on the ongoing Biafra agitation in a video that has quickly gone ...

Minister of Works, and former governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, has dismissed calls for a separate Biafran State, saying it is no longer warranted, due to what he described as the unprecedented ...

When the south-east region of Nigeria declared itself to be the independent state of Biafra, civil war broke out in May 1967. More than a million people died before the fighting stopped. In 2021, ...

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Kanu has long championed the secession of Nigeria’s south-east region, a demand the Nigerian constitution forbids. The last ...

The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has made a passionate appeal to Igbo people across the globe to cease the agitation for a ...

The Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, has asserted that calls for a separate Biafran state are no longer warranted, highlighting what he described as the unprecedented integration of the ...

Nigerian singer Kingsley Okonkwo, popularly known as Kcee, has stirred conversation after declaring himself a Biafran, ...

A coalition of pro-Biafra groups has declared that the sentencing of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), ...

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 ...

A Nigerian court on Thursday jailed Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu for life for "terrorism", ending a decade-old legal saga in which the prosecution sought the death penalty. Kanu, leader of ...