They said experience is the best teacher, so as history teaches the citizen about what has happened in the time past. Nigeria history cannot go down well without talking about some boiling issues, amongst which is Biafran Civil war.
The Nigerian Civil War was fought to reintegrate and reunify the
country. This paper will focus on the causes of the war, strategies
employed by the belligerents in the conflict, and the lessons learnt.

INTRODUCTION
The Federation of Nigeria, as it is known today, has never really been
one homogeneous country, for it's widely differing peoples and tribes.
This obvious fact notwithstanding, the former colonial master decided to
keep the country one in order to effectively control her vital resources
for their economic interests. Thus, for administrative convenience the
Northern and Southern Nigeria were amalgamated in 1914. Thereafter
the only thing this people had in common was the name of their country
since each side had different administrative set - up.This alone was an
insufficient basis for true unity. Under normal circumstances the
amagalmation ought to have brought the various peoples together and
provided a firm basis for the arduous task of establishing closer cultural,
social, religious, and linguistic ties vital for true unity among the people.
There was division, hatred, unhealthy rivalry, and pronounced disparity
in development.
The growth of nationalism in the society and the subsequent
emergence of political parties were based on ethnic/tribal rather than
national interests, and therefore had no unifying effect on the peoples
against the colonial master. Rather, it was the people themselves who
were the victims of the political struggles which were supposed to be
aimed at removing foreign domination. At independence Nigeria became
a Federation and remained one country. Soon afterwards the battle to
consolidate the legacy of political and military dominance of a section of
Nigeria over the rest of the Federation began with increased intensity. It
is this struggle that eventually degenerated into coup, counter coup and
a bloody civil war.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Nigerian Civil War broke out on 6 July 1967. The war was the
culmination of an uneasy peace and stability that had plagued the Nation
from independence in 1960. This situation had its genesis in the
geography, history, culture and demography of Nigeria.
The immediate cause of the civil war itself may be identified as the
coup and the counter coup of 1966 which altered the political equation
and destroyed the fragile trust existing among the major ethnic groups.
As a means of holding the country together in the last result, the country
was divided into twelve states from the original four regions in May
1967. The former Eastern Region under Lt. Col. Ojukwu saw the act of
the creation of states by decree "without consultation" as the last straw,
and declared the Region an independent state of "Biafra. Continue the reading on my blog. www.heywhyzo.com

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