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The Nigerian Civil War is one of the bloodiest civil wars in Africa. It is characterized by the most extreme tragedies of human suffering and losses in the history of Nigeria. The 30 months civil war from July 6, 1967 to January 15, 1970, can be said to be a culmination of cycles of adverse pre-independence and post-independence crises. The origin of the war could be located in a complexity of factors ranging from the remote factors which include the military coup d’état of January 15 and counter-coup of July 29, 1966. Other remote factors are the regional elections of 1964, the federal election of 1964; the killing of the Igbos living in Northern Nigeria from May to September 1966, otherwise called the Igbo pogrom.
Thus, the Nigerian War can be said to be the result of serious ethnic and religious tensions and disunity that found expression through political and military underpinnings. Lieutenant Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu declaration of the Independent State of Biafra on May 30, 1967 and General Yakubu Gowon’s military response were the immediate factors that led to the civil war. At this time, Ogwuahi-Uku and other towns and communities in the then Midwest State such as Ibusa, Asaba, Agbor were caught between the newly declared Republic of Biafra and Nigeria. Due to the geographical location of Western Igbo that shared border with Biafra on the River Niger was faced with a dilemma because of their ethnicity and linguistic affinity of having sympathy for the Biafran cause and allegiance to the continued unified existence of Nigeria.
