Nigeria's Eastern Region declared itself an independent republic called Biafra.

In an attempt to rule its own region, the Igbo declared themselves independent from Nigeria and the southeastern region of the nation was called Biafra.

Babies were dying of malnutrition in a place called Biafra, which you don't remember, and the Russians were moving troops into Czechoslovakia in yet another demonstration of socialist brotherhood.

Some of the experts say the crisis is more dire than any since 1967, when the eastern region called Biafra tried to split away, plunging the country into three years of civil war that cost up to a million lives.

A new republic,called Biafra, is created by the Igbo.

The violence has picked at a very old wound, one inflicted by Nigeria's civil war in the late 1960's, in which Ibo-led insurgents tried to form an independent country called Biafra.

They did not want to be a part of Nigeria, which was ruled by a Muslim, and they wanted their own country called "Biafra".

He was alluding to Nigeria's worst ethnic conflict, when more than one million people were killed between 1967 and 1970 in the failed attempt of the country's eastern region to secede and form a new country called Biafra.

Colonel Ojukwu, who just passed away this week in London after a long illness, tried it before and failed when he had declared a secessionist state called Biafra in Nigeria in 1967.

When did you last wonder how things are going in the place that used to be called Biafra?