By Tunde Ajibulu
History has many definitions. It can be referred to as an academic discipline which uses a narrative to examine and analyse a sequence of past events and objectively determine patterns of cause and effect that determine them.
We are nothing without our past and history…and we are primed for failure if we cannot learn from the past to adjust the present and plan for the future. There is a biblical saying that ‘there is nothing new under the sun’ or a more Nigerian saying “no be today woman get yansh for back e don tey”
On the 6th of July 1967 the new Head of State, Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon ordered a ‘police action’ to tame the Biafran shrew and to retake the secessionists’ territory….a terrible decision and mistake that escalated into 3 years of death, anguish, destruction, the darkest period in Nigerian history when brothers became…
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