Onitsha
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Onitsha is a city on the eastern bank of the Niger River, in Anambra State, Nigeria. Onitsha along with various cities and towns in southern Anambra State, northern Imo State and neighboring Delta Sta
Onitsha Stock Exchange
Cathedral Basilica of the most holy trinity Onitsha
Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe of Africa. in Owelle Osowa Anya Onitsha. Anambra State. Nigeria
Obi’s Palace
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
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…Benin City and Lagos particularly. The Nigerian-Biafran war brought devastation to Onitsha as the city was a major theatre of war for forces entering Biafra from the western front. The subsequent oil boom years of the 1970s and early 1980s witnessed a huge influx of immigrants into the city. The result has…
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