Keeping Nigeria One - Civil War

A portrait of Major General Shehu Musa Yar'Adua in official military ceremonial uniform.

Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, sixth from right in the front row, with Generals Murtala Mohammed, Zamani Lekwot and Umaru Mohammed, welcomed by His Royal Majesty Obi Emmanuel Efeizomor II, the Obi of Owa, during the civil war.

The front page of the New Nigerian, Tuesday 13 January 1970, announcing the formal end of the Nigerian Civil War.

Pages from Shehu Musa Yar'Adua's diary detailing the military operations leading to the capture of Onitsha, Thursday 21 March 1968.

Further pages from his diary on the operations leading to the capture of Onitsha, Wednesday 20 March 1968.

Generals Duba, Mayaki, Babangida and Remawa, field officers of the Second Division, sharing a meal during a respite from civil war operations.

Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, left, with General Zamani Lekwot during the civil war.

Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, fifth from right, receiving the formal surrender of a Biafran community, with Generals Jega, Muhammed and Lekwot.

A newspaper on the federal government's framework for reconciliation, reconstruction and rehabilitation in the Eastern Region.

Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, fourth from right, at the conferment of the title Odogwu, or war lord, of Owa on General Murtala Mohammed by the Obi of Owa, after the liberation of the Mid-West Region.

Major Shehu Musa Yar'Adua briefing frontline troops of the Second Division at Asaba before the assault to capture Onitsha.

Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, left, with General Muhammed Jega during the civil war.

Troops of the Second Division in a canoe before the amphibious assault to capture Onitsha.

A newspaper on the capture of Onitsha during the civil war.

Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, right, with a relative of Ukpabi Asika during the civil war.