A report on Nigeria and Igbo people

The Nigerian Civil War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970; also known as the Nigerian-Biafran War or the Biafran War) was a civil war fought between the government of Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist state which had declared its independence from Nigeria in 1967.

Biafra represented the nationalist aspirations of the Igbo ethnic group, whose leadership felt they could no longer coexist with the federal government dominated by the interests of the Muslim Hausa-Fulanis of northern Nigeria.

The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).

Meanwhile, south of the Sudan, strong city-states arose in Igboland, such as the 10th-century Kingdom of Nri, which helped birth the arts and customs of the Igbo people, Bono State in the 11th century, which gave birth to the numerous Akan States, while Ife rose to prominence around the 12th century.

Biafra, officially the Republic of Biafra, was a partially recognised secessionist state in West Africa that declared independence from Nigeria and existed from 1967 until 1970.

Its territory consisted of the predominantly Igbo-populated Eastern Region of Nigeria.

Enugu (Énugwú) is the capital of Enugu State in Nigeria.

Since the 17th century the location of present-day Enugu has been inhabited by the Enugwu-Ngwo and Nike subgroup of the Igbo people;.

It is the fifth most populous city in Nigeria after Lagos, Kano, Ibadan and Kaduna.

Port Harcourt is primarily composed of coastal Ijaw, Ikwerre, and Ogoni peoples, with a significant Igbo minority.

Colonial Nigeria was ruled by the British Empire from the mid-nineteenth century until 1960 when Nigeria achieved independence.

Catholic missionaries were particularly active among the Igbo; the CMS worked among the Yoruba.

Nicknamed the "Light of the Nation", Anambra State is the eighth most populous state in the nation, although that has seriously been argued against as Onitsha, the state's biggest and most populous urban area was discovered to be over 5 million in population in 2019 by Africapolis which makes Onitsha the second largest urban area in Nigeria by population and third in Africa.

Residents of Anambra State are primarily Igbo, with the Igbo language serving as a lingua franca throughout the state.

The Eastern Region was an administrative region in Nigeria, dating back originally from the division of the colony Southern Nigeria in 1954.

The region had the third-, fourth- and fifth-largest indigenous ethnic groups including Igbo, Ijaw and Ibibio.

Chukwuemeka "Emeka" Odumegwu-Ojukwu was born on 4 November 1933 at Zungeru in northern Nigeria to Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, an Igbo businessman from present-day Nnewi, Anambra State in south-eastern Nigeria.

In early 1984 the Buhari regime jailed hundreds of political figures, including Ojukwu, who was held at the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison.

Igboland (Standard Àlà Ị̀gbò), also known as Southeastern Nigeria (but extends into South-Southern Nigeria), is the indigenous homeland of the Igbo people.

It is a cultural and common linguistic region in southern Nigeria.