July 1967: Ojukwu and Biafra Soldiers prepare to face Nigerian Soldiers The Nigerian Civil War (Biafran War) 6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970, was a war fought to counter the secession of Biafra from Nigeria. Biafra represented nationalist aspirations of the Igbo people, whose leadership felt they could no longer coexist with the Northern-dominated federal government. The conflict resulted from political, economic, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions which preceded Britain's formal decolonizati

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