The building of the modern Nigerian State

[FROM THE ARCHIVES] BIAFRA: The Untold Story Of Nigeria’s Civil War Early in the morning of 1 July 1967, Nigeria’s young head of state, Colonel Yakubu Gowon, was feeling uneasy in his office at the Supreme Headquarters, Dodan Barracks in Lagos. The unease was a result of his being ceaselessly pressured to authorize a military […]

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