Why did a civil war started in nigeria immediately after its independence by brainly.In?
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The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War was a war fought between the government of Nigeria and the secessionist state of Biafra. Biafra represented nationalist aspirations of the Igbo people, who felt they could no longer coexist with the Northern-dominated federal government. The conflict was because of the political, economic, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions which preceded Britain's formal decolonization of Nigeria . The main cause of the war included a military coup, a counter-coup and persecution of Igbo living in Northern Nigeria. The controlling of lucrative oil production in the Niger Delta was another reason..
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