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#BiafraRemembranceDay: Buhari’s Bad Handling, Kanu’s Fame, And Rising Tension In Southeast Nigeria

In 1967, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, a 33-year-old Lieutenant-Colonel in the Nigerian Army, announced the secession of Nigeria’s Southeast region from the rest of the country, following a pogrom that killed about 30,000 Southeastern Nigerians living in Northern Nigeria with about a million of them fleeing back to the then eastern region. The Nigerian government declared …