The Nigerian Civil War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970), also known as the Biafran War, was a civil war fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra...
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Nigerian Army (NA) is the land force of the Nigerian Armed Forces. It is the largest component of the Nigerian Armed Forces. The President of Nigeria...
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Russian Civil War (1917–1922) Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) Syrian civil war (2011–present) List of civil wars List of...
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The Nigerian Armed Forces (NAF) are the military forces of Nigeria. The forces consist of three service branches: the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy, and...
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Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (category Candidates in the Nigerian general election, 2003)
was a Nigerian military officer and politician who served as President of the Republic of Biafra from 1967 to 1970 during the Nigerian Civil War. He previously...
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of Nigeria (1963) John de St. Jorre, The Nigerian Civil War p. 36. John de St. Jorre, The Nigerian Civil War, p. 35 John de St. Jorre, The Nigerian Civil...
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Biafra (category Nigerian Civil War)
to reclaim the territory of Biafra, resulting in the start of the Nigerian Civil War. Biafra was officially recognised by Gabon, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Tanzania...
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The Second Liberian Civil War was a civil war in the West African nation of Liberia that lasted from 1999 to 2003. President Charles Taylor came to power...
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Eha Amufu (section Nigerian Civil War)
due to its historical involvement in the Nigerian Civil War from 1967 to 1970. Before the Nigerian Civil War, the town was small and primarily agrarian...
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The blockade of Biafra by the Nigerian federal government during the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) resulted in a famine that ultimately cost at least...
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In 1967, a Civil war broke out in Nigeria, the war was between the Nigerian troops and Biafran troops. The head of state as at that time was Gen Yakubu...
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Benjamin Adekunle (category Military personnel of the Nigerian Civil War)
1936 – 13 September 2014) was a Nigerian military officer and prominent military figure during the Nigerian Civil War. Adekunle was born in Kaduna. His...
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Anti-Nigerian sentiment is the dislike of Nigeria or Nigerians. Anti-Nigerian sentiment arose among Igbo people during the Nigerian Civil War of 1967–1970...
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1967 until 1970. At the beginning of the Nigerian Civil War, Biafra had 3,000 soldiers. This number grew as the war progressed, ultimately reaching 30,000...
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during the Nigerian Civil War within the then Federal Capital Territory of Lagos for the purpose of sensitization and protection of the civil populace....
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Niger Delta (category Landforms of Nigeria)
Adaka Boro during Nigerian president Ironsi's administration, just before the Nigerian Civil War. Also just before the Nigerian civil war, Southeastern State...
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Division is a division of the Nigerian Army. The division is headquartered at Jos, Plateau State. The 3rd Division of the Nigerian Army dates to August–September...
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Godwin Alabi-Isama (category Military personnel of the Nigerian Civil War)
Nigerian Military School in Zaria, Nigeria and the Nigerian Military Training College (now Nigerian Defence Academy) in Kaduna prior to the civil war...
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of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-84076-7. Biafra-Nigeria 1967–1969 Political Affairs (PDF)...
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enslavement. Many Nigerians of Igbo origin were also brought into the US in the late 1960s as war refugees during Nigerian Civil War. Some Nigerian ethnic groups...
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Yakubu Gowon (category Military personnel of the Nigerian Civil War)
1934) is a Nigerian former Head of State and statesman who led the Federal military government war efforts during the Nigerian Civil War. Gowon delivered...
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Aguiyi-Ironsi to be head of state of Nigeria. Consequently, the retaliatory events by Northern members of the Nigerian Army that led to deaths of many Igbo...
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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is the air branch of the Nigerian Armed Forces. It is the youngest branch of the Nigerian Armed Forces,established 4 years...
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Service de documentation extérieure et de contre-espionnage (category Algerian War)
as a den of spies working for a hostile foreign power. During the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-70, the SDECE supported Biafra by supplying the Biafrans with...
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a Nigerian military officer who was the 1st Vice President and the 2nd and last president of the Republic of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War from...
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Thailand Cambodian Civil War, 1967–1975 in Cambodia Nigerian Civil War, 1967–1970 in Nigeria Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989), 1968–1989...
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Armed Forces Remembrance Day (category Public holidays in Nigeria)
the servicemen of the Nigerian Armed Forces. It also honors veterans of the World War I and II as well as the Nigerian Civil War. In 2024, the name was...
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Nigerian nationalism asserts that Nigerians as a nation should promote the cultural unity of Nigerians. Nigerian nationalism is territorial nationalism...
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Murtala Muhammed (category Military personnel of the Nigerian Civil War)
during the Nigerian Civil War and thereafter ruled Nigeria from 29 July 1975 until his assassination on 13 February 1976. This period in Nigerian history...
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the central government during the Nigerian Civil War. From the 1990s, a growing number of people in southeastern Nigeria such as Igbo and Niger Delta natives...
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