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CIVIL WAR: ‘Nigeria more divided now than in 1967’
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•No basis for Nigeria’s unity – Nnamdi Kanu
By Clifford Ndujihe, Political Editor
YEESTERDAY, January 15, marked exactly 51 years of the end of the 30-month Nigerian-Biafran Civil War that claimed an estimated three million lives on both sides.
After the war, the Nigerian military regime of General Yakubu Gowon declared that there was no victor, no vanquished. He unfurled a three-pronged Programme of reconstruction, rehabilitation and reconciliation to heal the wounds of the war and reintegrate the then Eastern Region, especially the Igbo, into Nigeria.
Fifty decades and a year after it is arguable if progress has been made on this score.