ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian soldiers killed 79 militants ... when the short-lived Republic of Biafra fought and lost a civil war from 1967 to 1970 to become independent from the West African ...

A retired civil war veteran, Col. Nasiru Salami, has expressed his disapproval of his children joining the Nigerian Army due to what he described as the poor treatment of retired military ...

Nigerians celebrate January 15 of every year as Armed Forces Remembrance Day (AFRD). Also known simply as Remembrance Day, it ...

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It also honors veterans of World Wars I and II as well as the Nigerian Civil War. It is instructive to note that, as a former British colony, Nigeria formerly celebrated Remembrance Day on ...

With this development commission which I know is aimed at reconstructing and rehabilitating infrastructure damages suffered by the region during the Nigerian civil war of 1967-1970, our destiny is ...

A civil war veteran, Col Nasiru Salami (rtd), says he cannot allow his children to join the Nigerian Army, decrying what he termed the poor treatment of retirees by military authorities.