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As
a tool for healing the pain of the Civil War, the bill has
asked the President to establish a “Civil War Reconciliation
Committee”, from all political parties and all geopolitical
zones in Nigeria, to address all pertinent issues regarding
the Civil War. The Committee shall be required to invite group
and individual testimonies which shall “focus on the
causes of the Civil War, the massacres of the Civil War, the
tortures of the Civil war, and the necessary reparations to
be made by the Federal Government to the aggrieved, if any”.
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In
the face of severe suffering, hunger and death as well as
unrelenting military pressure from the well equipped and
more numerous federal troops, the average Biafran needed
to hear the type of inspirational speech that Ahiara Declaration
turned out to be. It was a great paradox that the enunciation
of the Biafran dream predated its collapse by only 6 months.
Nonetheless, the Ahiara Declaration posed many
questions.... ...-
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The
proposed ‘Igbo Day’ has been portrayed as a
conduit for addressing the recent sociopolitical history
of our people within the Nigerian context and also as a
showcase for resurgent Igbo nationalism. Because of the
implications of the latter, it would have been more prudent
to deeply reflect on the choice of terms, such as ‘Igbo
Day’, so as not to unduly encourage the stigmatization
of Ndiigbo who do not belong to the Southeast and those
who reside and work regularly in other parts of Nigeria.
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The
Biafra Memorial Project (BMP) Committee recently paid a
visit to the Home for Biafran Veterans in Oji River, Enugu
State. The delegation, which was led by Meke Ifejika and
the BMP leader for the Southeast, Chief Chuba Nweke, ended
on a very high emotional tone when the veterans and their
dependents as well as the guests burst into nostalgic songs
of the Biafran era. ....-
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The Survival Struggle for Ndiigbo |
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