Enugu (city)
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Enugu is the capital city of Enugu State in Nigeria. The city had a population of 876,000 spread across the three LGAs of Enugu East, Enugu North and Enugu South, according to the 2022 Nigerian census
Collage pics of Enugu, MJW
The Iva Valley coal mine
Flavour N'abania at the 2014 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards
Students at a seminar in Enugu
Biafra
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Biafra, officially the Republic of Biafra, was a partially recognised state in West Africa that declared independence from Nigeria and existed from 1967 to 1970. Its territory consisted of the former
Enugu (city)
…Region into 12 states and Enugu was made the capital of the new East Central State. On 30 May 1967 Enugu was declared the capital of the short-lived Republic of Biafra, the latter created out of the eastern Nigerian states of East Central, Cross River and Rivers. Biafra was declared by Ojukwu because of Eastern Nigeria…
New Nigerian newspaper page, 7 January 1970. End of the Nigerian civil war with Biafra. "Owerri is now captured. Ojukwu flees his enclave." Photographs of the military Obasanjo, Jallo, Bissala, Gowon.
A child suffering the effects of severe hunger and malnutrition during the Nigerian blockade