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58 Years After: Nigeria Still Fails to Apologise

Today, October 7th, 2025, marks 58 years since one of the darkest chapters in Nigeria’s history the Asaba Pogrom of 1967.

On that day, hundreds of Enuani men and boys, dressed in white as a symbol of peace, gathered in Asaba to welcome the Nigerian Army, hoping for reconciliation. Instead, under the command of Captain Murtala Mohammed, they were corralled at Ogbe-Osowe Square and mas.sacred in cold bl00d.

Historical records and survivor accounts confirm that at least 500–700 people were killed, though some scholars and community testimonies suggest the number could have reached over a thousand. The victims were not soldiers or fighters, they were ordinary fathers, brothers, sons, and husbands.
Today their names are engraved on memorial stones in Asaba, but their blood cries still for justice.

At 12 noon today, October 7th, 2025, we shall observe one minute of silence in their honour. We remember them not just as numbers, but as lives violently cut short, leaving behind widows, orphans, and a community scarred forever.

The pogrom did not end in Asaba alone. A similar atrocity was visited on Isheagu, in Aniocha South LGA, where the king and his people were brutally executed. Across the Eastern region, the Nigerian geno.cidal War against the Igbos would go on to claim millions of Igbo lives, a collective wound that has never truly healed.

Yet, 58 years on, no apology has ever been issued. Neither Asaba, nor Enuani, nor Igboland has been compensated or formally acknowledged by the Nigerian government for this heinous crime. Silence has replaced justice, and neglect has replaced reconciliation.

But we, the brothers, sisters, relatives, and descendants of the fallen, remember.

We honour their courage.
We refuse to forget and we appeal to those who suffered not our pains to stop telling us to forget.

May the memory of our martyrs remain eternal, and may Nigeria one day find the humility to seek forgiveness and the

in 1996 when Dr Alex Ekweme stood up to address the congress but it happens that northerners shut him down. but when Chief Chukwuemeka Ojukwu stood up and work straight and stood firm behind him without a word. everywhere went in silent mode and Dr Alex Ekweme's voice starts to ROAR like a lion.
Chief Chukwuemeka Ojukwu bu Odogwu Nwoke