An estimated 3,000,000 people, mostly children and women, died in Eastern Nigeria during the civil war. Many people died from hunger and starvation after Nigeria imposed a total economic blockade on the region.
Gowon says the controversial £20 post-war payment was a collective Federal Executive Council decision, not Awolowo's personal policy.
Former Head of State insists Igbos and other Nigerians with verified pre-war bank deposits recovered their full savings with accrued...
November 12, (THEWILL) - Veteran Hausa actor, Usman Baba Pategi, popularly known as Samanja Mazan Fama, has passed away at the age of 84.
The Kaduna-based famous Kannywood actor was said to have died around 12:15 a.m. on Sunday, November...
May 15, (THEWILL) - The recent nationwide upsurge in ethnic militia nationalism or gangsterism and its attendant violence which no doubt is the inevitable offshoot of transferred aggression is an aftermath of long years of military misrule. This unfortunate...
May 08, (THEWILL) - I am so delighted to be joining you here in Denver, Colorado, and to be addressing one of the oldest humanist associations in the world. I bring you greetings from fellow humanists in Nigeria, and...
April 20, (THEWILL) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State has urged former Military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, to apologise to Ndigbo over his role in the Biafra civil war.
The Nigerian Civil War was a three-year...
An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has dismissed a petition seeking the dissolution of a marriage that has lasted over 43 years, ruling that lack of love and mutual respect between spouses does not, on its own, constitute sufficient legal grounds for divorce.
