{"id":5751,"date":"2020-08-17T19:58:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T19:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanep.gravitywebsolutionsgh.com\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2021-03-21T20:58:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T20:58:27","slug":"policy-brief-on-nigeria-the-nigeria-state-and-the-biafra-question-threats-to-or-opportunities-for-national-cohesion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/policy-brief-on-nigeria-the-nigeria-state-and-the-biafra-question-threats-to-or-opportunities-for-national-cohesion\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Brief on Nigeria: &#8211; THE NIGERIA STATE AND THE BIAFRA QUESTION: THREATS TO OR OPPORTUNITIES FOR NATIONAL COHESION?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The resurgence of the agitation for the creation of the Republic of Biafra in 2015 steps from a long history of agitations for the independence of the Southeastern states and some parts of South-south zone of Nigeria from the Nigerian state. The agitation dates back to Nigeria civil war of 1967-1970. The reannexation of the region to Nigeria after the civil war did not put an end to the agitation but led to the emergence of several pro-Biafra movements in the zone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/files\/2016\/jan\/pb_nigeria_jan_2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download file here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The resurgence of the agitation for the creation of the Republic of Biafra in 2015 steps from a long history of agitations for the independence of the Southeastern states and some parts of South-south zone of Nigeria from the Nigerian state. The agitation dates back to Nigeria civil war of 1967-1970. The reannexation of the region to Nigeria after the civil war did not put an end to the agitation but led to the emergence of several pro-Biafra movements in the zone. Download file here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy-brief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}