Pictures of Nigerian Civil War - From Starving Children To Execution Of Nigerian Soldiers

- The civil war which saw the Nigerian federal troops opposing Biafra secessionist fighting for independence is estimated to have killed between one and two milllion people

- Most of the dead are said to have died from hunger and disease, from 1967 to 1970 in south-eastern Nigeria

Urbangists in the photos below brings you images from the 30 months fratricidal war that engulfed Nigeria some 50 years ago.

Moise, 14 (L) and Ferdinand, 16 (R), two children soldiers of the Biafran army during a discussion in Umuahia on August 31, 1968.

During the Biafran war, civilians unload a ferry that carries relief between Calabar and Oron on September 09, 1968. 

In the photo, Biafran children can be seen sitting in a plane chartered by the International Red Cross (ICRC) and humanitarian organisation “Terre des Hommes”. The plane transported them to Libreville, Gabon, on October 02, 1968 after their evacuation from Biafra.

Photo of a wounded Nigerian army soldier being carried by his comrades on the pannier rack of a bicycle on December 07, 1968 in the bush at Ekim near Itu, during the war. 

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Urhobos Have No Bond With Biafra – Urhobo union president

Olorogun Moses Taiga, the President General of Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) Worldwide has told those drawing maps that include Urhobo in Biafra to stop wasting their time. NAIJ.com gathered that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in its map of states has Urhobo and the entire Delta state. But Taiga explained that Biafra and Urhobo do not even share a common boundary and there is nothing binding the Igbos with them.

The business mogul speaking with Vanguard said: “We the Urhobo Nation know we are not even neighbours to some of those people who said we are part of them. “We have the Ijaw to the west, we have the Edo to the north, and we have the Anioma to the northeast, so there is nothing that binds us. “There is no correlation between us, and we also have the natural River Niger that separates us there is, therefore, no case in that. “The issue is does somebody draw an artificial map and say Edo and Delta are part of his own. “The Youngman, Nnamdi Kanu lives in England and makes all sorts of claims. The Southern Leaders Forum said any attack on any party of the South is an attack against the whole South, so we do not intend to select any nation in the whole of the South for special attack.

“We are not part of any other kingdom; we are the fourth largest nation in the country, and we’ve not fought hard enough to secure our rightful place, but our job is to try to articulate our position and ensure that we are due for recognition.” NAIJ.com previously reported that the federal government has been called upon to arrest Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) or face mass protest by the Arewa Youth Assembly, AYA, a group from the northern part of the country. According to the group, the IPOB leader has violated his bail conditions and such acts is capable of distabilising the country.

 In a statement signed by its speaker and made available to Premium Times, Mohammed Salihu and clerk, Desmond Minakaro, AYA gave the acting president Yemi Osinbajo 10 days to order the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu.

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