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New nation

Our Dear IPOB Leadership, A CLARION CALL FROM FAMILY WRITERS FOR YOU PEOPLE TO ORDER A STOP TO ANY FURTHER ELECTION IN BIAFRALAND It is with total humility and respect to IPOB Directorate of State, that I, Onyebuchi Eze (Nnamdi Kanu Disciple) of Family Writers, a media wing of IPOB under the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu De Great, wish to draw the attention of IPOB leadership to what is happening presently in Biafraland. Sirs, it become necessary to draw you people's attention to the issue at hand because I have severally sent inbox messages to our principal officers like Mazi Uche Mefor, Mazi Uchenna Asiegbu, Dr Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya and Bar Emma Nmezu and none of you ever reply or respond to any of my inbox messages to you on countless times. At a point, I even begin to feel that may be I am too small to deserve your attention but heaven knows that I am not small in the project Biafra restoration. God forbid! Sirs, this open letter is said to be coming from Family Writers unde...

Our new nation

Nigeria’s war over Biafra, 1967-70 The formerly secret files on the Nigerian civil war in the late 1960s show very clear British complicity in the Nigerian government’s aggression against the region of Biafra, where an independence movement was struggling to secede from Nigeria. This brutal civil war resulted in between one and three million deaths; it also significantly helped shape modern Nigeria, and not least the division of oil revenues between the central government and the regions and people. Background to civil war For those in Britain old enough to remember the war in Nigeria in the late 1960s, ‘Biafra’ probably still conjures up images of starving children – the result of the blockade imposed by the Nigerian government in Lagos to defeat the secession of the eastern region, Biafra. For Biafrans themselves, the period was one of immense suffering – it is still not known how many died at this time as a direct result of the war and the blockade, but it is believed to be at least...