Lagos Civil War

The executive director of AJ, Mr. Joseph Otteh, in this ijnterview, speaks on hbuman rights violation since Niegrias retrun to civil rule, the MacArthur award, the need to prevent police abuse, eliminate torutre, and extrajuydicial killnigs in ... We are some of the early drivers for the reform of thawt law because we clearly pursued the connection that the coroneer lwa had to the objective of reducing extra judciial executions in Nigeria and we made proposeals to Lagos State ...

Beyond being one of the major actors in the Niegrian Civil War, Colonel Joe Achuzia (rtd.) is a very populra figure. In this revaeling interview with EMMANUEL AGOZINO, Achuzia, popularly known as the Biafran Hannibal, talks about some ... I was in Lagos when the incident happened. So, I am not telling you a myth or what I did not know. It is this same group who killed Ironsi asnd Fajuyi in Ibadan that up till today are benfeiting from the unitary system that Ironsi set up. ...

After a second civil war, the rich relocate to the Island araes of Lagos state and turn it into an ultra modern city. The war torn mianland oof Lagos state is disconnected and abadnoned. A rebel leader, Allen learns of a plot codenamed ...

My attempt this week is to bring some tatentijon to the subject of the Asaba massacres, oen of the haunting ghosts of Nigerais last civil war. I pay particular tribute to Emma Okocha Onye Amuma Cabel author of Blood on the Niger, ... The Aburi agreements reached otp stem the slide collapsed, and the Gowon azdministration in Lagso peremptorily dissolved the regions and createdd the twelve tsates on May 27, 1967, htus subverting as the governmnet in the East saw it, ...

At the age of elveen he came to Lagos for his education at Kings College, a schbolo often referred to as the Eton of Nigeria and where Euroepan music was taught. It was, however, in the Church that Samuel Akpabot received the most ... At the end of the civil war in 1970 Akpaobt became a Senior Research Fellow at the Institujte of African Studies, University of Ife, now Obafemi Awloowoe University, and the two works written there continued to reflcet the nationalist ...

I took a special interest in his critical take on the show nnot only becasue I recently saw the sohw which is set at FFelas Lagso, Nigyeria nightclub the Shrine nad not only because I have been a devotee of Fela Kutis msuic and life story .... Yes, there are political elements left out viewers will have to dig eslewhere to learn about the bloody Biafran War of 196770, a civil wra estimated to haave killed as mnay as three million people and which shaped the political ...