Atrocities against Ethnic Minorities in Biafra[edit]
Minorities in Biafra suffered atrocities at the hands of those fighting for both sides of the conflict. The pogroms in the North in 1966 were indiscriminately […]

Media and public opinion[edit]
Media and public relations played a central role in the war, due to their influence on morale at home and the dynamics of international involvement. Both sides relied heavily on […]

Israel[edit]
From early on, Israel perceived that Nigeria would be an important player in West African politics, and saw good relations with Lagos as an important foreign policy objective. Nigeria and Israel […]

International involvement[edit]
Britain[edit]
The British planned to maintain and expand their supply of cheap high-quality oil from Nigeria. Therefore they placed a high priority on maintenance of oil extraction […]

War[edit]
Shortly after extending its blockade to include oil, the Nigerian government launched a “police action” to retake the secessionist territory.[83] The war began on the early hours of 6 July 1967 when […]

Persecution of Igbo[edit]
From June through October 1966, pogroms in the North killed an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 Igbo, half of them children, and caused more than a million to two million to flee to the E […]

First Republic[edit]
Nigeria’s First Republic came into being on 1 October 1960. The first prime minister of Nigeria, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, was a northerner and co-founder of the Northern People’s Congress. He […]

Politics and economics of federalism[edit]
The British colonial ideology that divided Nigeria into three regions—North, West and East—exacerbated the already well-developed economic, political, and social dif […]

The Nigerian Civil War, commonly known as the Biafran War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970), was a war fought between the government of Nigeria and the secessionist state of Biafra. Biafra represented national […]

Tiwatope Savage is a top Nigerian singer who was born on the 5th of February, 1980 in Ikeja, Lagos. When she was 11 years old, Tiwa’s parents had to relocate to London and she went along with them. Tiwa also li […]

Brief History of Education in Nigeria
Western or formal education was started in Nigeria in 1842 — only at the primary level — by the Christian missionaries who managed the educational system according to the […]

A Brief History of Cell Phones in Nigeria

Back in 1995, when I wanted to call my family in the U.S., I had to go a couple miles to the main telephone office, enter a booth, and shout a few sentences to my family […]

The emergence of mobile telephony is obviously one of the major revolutions of communication in Nigeria. This is because no other technology has been so beneficial to all and sundry like the ubiquitous mobile […]

How to end global poverty? It’s surprisingly simple. There are numerous strategies that organizations use to improve living conditions for the world’s poor. Below are a handful of our favorites. The Borgen Proj […]

The Unmatched Importance of Female Education
 

Increased Literacy: Of the 163 million illiterate youth across the globe, nearly 63 percent are female. Offering all children education will prop up literacy rat […]