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By Lawrence Njoku, Enugu
07 June 2024 | 3:52 americium
An Igbo group, Nzuko Umunna, has urged the Federal Government and applicable stakeholders to institutionalise the memorialisation of the 30-month Nigeria/Biafra Civil War.
(FILES) In this record photograph taken connected October 28, 1967, Nigerian national service soldiers survey a constabulary checkpoint connected the westbound slope of the Niger River astatine Asaba, from wherever they launched an amphibian violative connected Biafra, during the Biafran war. – A civilian warfare opposing Biafra secessionnist tribes warring for independance and the national troops killed betwixt 1 and 2 milllion people, astir from hunger and disease, from 1967 to 1970 successful the Biafra portion successful south-eastern Nigeria. (Photo by Colin HAYNES / AFP)An Igbo group, Nzuko Umunna, has urged the Federal Government and applicable stakeholders to institutionalise the memorialisation of the 30-month Nigeria/Biafra Civil War.
The warfare was fought betwixt July 6, 1967, and January 15, 1970, pursuing the declaration of the authorities of Biafra from Nigeria by Odumegwu Ojukwu. At the 2nd variation of Nzuko Umunna monthly dialog connected the topic, ‘Memorialising the Nigerian–Biafran War: A Catalyst to Better Civic Engagement and Sustainable Development successful South-East Nigeria,’ stakeholders from antithetic sectors, including academics, traditional, civilian nine organisations, assemblage leaders and policymakers reflected connected memorialising the Nigeria-Biafra War and its implications for civic engagement and sustainable improvement successful the region.
A communiqué signed by President of Nzuko Umunna, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, and Executive Secretary, Dr. Uju Agomoh, yesterday, said that participants deliberated connected the devastating effects of the warfare connected Igbo onshore arsenic a whole, including the lives lost, radical displaced and the economical devastation.
It said: “They extolled the resilience and determination of the Igbo radical successful the look of each the adversity, which brought astir the important advancement made successful rebuilding and reconstructing Igbo onshore contempt each the social, economical and governmental challenges that tended to frustrate sustainable improvement successful the region.”
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An Igbo group, Nzuko Umunna, has urged the Federal Government and applicable stakeholders to institutionalise the memorialisation of the 30-month Nigeria/Biafra Civil War.
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