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ABSTRACT
This study examined the impact of the Nigerian Civil War on Biafran children, using Onitcha as a case study. The Nigeria Civil war also known as Nigerian Biafran war, was fought between the Nigerian soldiers and the armies of the secessionist Biafra, with Biafra land as the theater of the most catastrophic armed conflict ever recorded in the annals of Nigerian history. The casualties were mostly the weak, especially women and children, who were victimized by the belligerents on both sides as the world watched the unfolding of one of the worst human tragedy, with Europe supplying most of its deadliest machineries and weapons of warfare for financial gains and imperialistic considerations. The civil war laid bare the major problems of Nigeria as a nation but it is unfortunate that those exposed problems constantly militating against Nigerian national existence are still unresolved till today. These are unfaithfulness to the nation and to each other in particular, tribalism, nepotism, corruption, betrayal of nationhood as well as one another, power dominance, marginalization and resource allocation. Sadly, all these still dominate the present Nigeria’s social, political and economic life and still constitute the major threat to Nigerian unity and national existence.
