AGUENE, IGNATIUS N. and NGENE, INNOCENT AJA and Ndufu, Ndufu Alike and AIGBIREMHON, Joseph, I. (2025) THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR AND THE RESURGENCE OF BIAFRA AGITATION IN NIGERIA. ESUT Journal of Social Sciences, 10 (2). pp. 1-10.
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Abstract
The Nigerian Civil War, better known in historical literature as the Nigeria-Biafra war, was a civil war fought in Nigeria from 1967 to 1970. The conflict was sparked by the desire of the south-eastern region of Biafra to secede from Nigeria, and the war resulted in the deaths of an estimated three million Igbos especially women and children. The federal government of Nigeria had at the end of the war, declared ‘no victor no vanquished’ and promised a three-pronged approach to reintegrate the Igbos into the scheme of things in Nigeria. The three-pronged approach were anchored on ‘reconstruction’, ‘rehabilitation’ and ‘reconciliation’ („3Rs‟). However, since the end of the war in 1970, there has no attempt to reconstruct what were destroyed in the then Biafra enclave, no attempt to rehabilitate the people who suffered collateral and material damages, neither had there been any attempt to reconcile the Igbos with the rest of the Nigerians. Rather, there had been systematic dehumanization, marginalization and exclusion of the Igbos from the economic, political, military and social scheme of things in Nigeria. The after war mantra of ‘no victor, no vanquished’ had been a mere rhetoric. In this paper, we reviewed and provided evidence that the inability of successive federal governments in Nigeria to reintegrate the Igbos and provide a level playing field for all Nigerians to thrive had been the major catalyst for the resurgence of the agitation for Biafran secession. The theoretical framework is based on Galtung’s conflict triangle. The study found out that unequal distribution of resources was the major cause of agitation. The study concluded that national resources should be equally distributed the study recommended the restructuring of Nigeria
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Management and Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | mrs chioma hannah |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2025 10:22 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Aug 2025 10:22 |
| URI: | http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/5166 |
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