Day: 28 March 2013

Vanguard (Lagos) NEWS November 8, 2003 Posted to the web November 8, 2003   THE defunct Biafran General who signed the surrender document with Colonel Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Phillip Effiong...

'The Dawn of National Reconciliation' - Gowon's Victory Message to the Nation, 15 January 1970 Broadcast from Lagos, 15 January 1970. Citizens of Nigeria, It is with a heart full...

Broadcast at midnight on 12 January 1970 (Federal Ministry of Information Press Release No. 31\1970). My Dear Compatriots: We have arrived at one of the greatest moments of the history...

Lt.-Col. Effiong Announces Surrender of Biafra Text taken from transcript of actual radio broadcast over the Biafran radio at 4:40 p.m., on Monday 12 January 1970. Fellow Countrymen, As you...

Ojukwu’s Call from Exile Statement issued through the Biafran Information agency in Geneva and reproduced verbatim in The Times, 16 January 1970. Three days ago I left the Republic of...

Ojukwu’s Message as He Flees Biafra (1) (1) Pre-recorded and broadcast over Biafran radio at 6:00 a.m., 11 January 1970. (Text from B.B.C ME\3277\B1.) Proud and heroic Biafrans, fellow countrymen...

THE AHIARA DECLARATION: The Principles of the Biafran Revolution By Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, June 1, 1969 Today, as I look back over our two years as a sovereign and...

LAND OF THE RISING SUN (Biafran National Anthem) Land of the rising sun, we love and cherish, Beloved homeland of our brave heroes; We must defend our lives or we...

TRANSCRIPT from the tape recordings of the Aburi Meeting, January 5-7, 1967 In Attendance: Lt.-General Joe Ankrah of Ghana (Host) Lt.-Colonel Yakubu Gowon, Chief of Army Staff of Nigeria (announced...

Official Record of the Minutes of the Meeting of Nigeria's  Military Leaders held at Aburi. The Supreme Military Council held its meeting in Ghana on the 4th-5th January. Those present...