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ABSTRACT

The Nigeria-Biafra war raged between July 6, 1967 and January 15, 1970. The war ended on the Nigerian side and succeeded in returning the Biafra Republic to the Nigerian state. The Federal government initiated the reconstruction, rehabilitation and reconciliation programme hinged on the “no victor, no vanguished” mantra which would heal the wounds of the civil war and return the Igbo to the mainstream of Nigerian politics. However, in spite of these lofty goals, the dominant Igbo ethnic group of Biafra feel discontented with the treatment meted out to it by the Nigerian Federation, hence the resurgence in the agitation for a sovereign state of Biafra. This development has attracted the attention of scholars, whose works do not adopt a time perspective in analysing the causatives of this trend. The current study marks a departure from this. It analyses the causes of the resurgence in the agitation of Biafra state over time. Data for the paper is obtained from secondary sources whose validity and veracity are established by content analysis. The paper ventures to submit that the causal factors of the resurgence are attributable to the palpable injustices meted out on the Igbo ethnicity by the Nigerian state.