Lagos - Former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme has lamented the resort to war in resolving conflicts while describing the Nigeria-Biafra War as an exercise in futility.
He said this yesterday at the public presentation of a book - The Last Flight, written by Captain August Okpe, at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Victoria Island, Lagos. He said it was wrong for brothers to take up arms against one another.
Lagos - The exploits and failures of defunct Biafran Airforce will be unveiled today at a book launch in Lagos.
The autobiography entitled "The Last Flight" (A pilot Remembers the Airforce and the Biafran Air Attacks), was written by ex-Biafran Chief pilot, Captain August Opke.
As his contribution to events marking the country's 50th independence anniversary, celebrated novelist, Professor Chinua Achebe, is set to release a major opus - Reflections on the Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970. This year is also the 40th anniversary of the end of the Biafran war.
Daily Independent (Lagos)Lagos - If you believe in destiny or pre-destination, then you have another evidence to confirm and validate your belief. Among the blizzard of evidences that you could point to is the story of Olusegun Obasanjo, an Owu-Abeokuta lad, born poor, nit-witted at birth and not too pleasant looking. Though rugged at school, his colleagues at the Baptist Boys' High School Abeokuta in the middle fifties describe him as a semi-dullard, an abysmally below average student.
Daily Independent (Lagos)Asaba - The arrest of an Onitsha-based businessman, Chief Sebastine Okafor, for attempted murder of another trader, Chukwunata Nwaokozor, by Delta Police Command last week has been described as not in the best interest of Amolu Clan, Adazi Nnukwa, Annaocha council, Anambra State.
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