Filmmaker Meji Alabi directs a landmark BBC Africa Eye documentary about Nigeria's civil war.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has declared May 30, 2026, as a solemn day of remembrance for millions of people who lost their lives during the Nigerian civil war, describing the occasion as a ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has commended residents of the South-East and other parts of the country for what it ...

On a pitch-black night during the height of the Biafran war, a mother stood over a flickering hearth, her body trembling with a quiet, inward sobbing. Around her feet, her children wept, their bellies ...

The BBC World Service has announced a landmark documentary on the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has called on people of the South-East region across Nigeria and in the diaspora to observe May 30, 2026, as a solemn day of remembrance for ...

The leadership of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra has commended residents of the South-East and parts of the South-South for complying with its sit-at-home ...

Three Israelis shooting a documentary in a separatist region in southeast Nigeria were arrested last week, the Foreign ...

The BBC World Service and Nigerian filmmaker Meji Alabi are gearing up to launch their documentary on the Nigerian Civil War, ...

Thursday marks more than 50 years since Chukwuemeka Ojukwu announced the breakaway state of Biafra in the Igbo-majority South-East of Nigeria. Ex-Royal Canadian Air Force pilot Lynn Garrison, now 87, ...

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 ...

The Ogbunigwe was a series of weapons systems locally mass-produced by the Biafrans. These weapons include command detonation mines, improvised explosive devices and rocket-propelled missiles. In his ...