Nigeria
Helicopter attacks Nigerian civilians after British pilot training
by PHIL MILLER | 13 May 2021
TAGGED: Cobham, Nigeria
Declassified visited villages in Nigeria ruined by indiscriminate air strikes, which killed civilians, levelled marketplaces and hit a school — months after we revealed Nigerian air force pilots were secretly training in the UK.
Nigerian air force learning to fly helicopters in England amid human rights concerns
by PHIL MILLER | 11 November 2020
TAGGED: Cobham, Nigeria
Nigerian air force personnel are learning to fly helicopters in Newquay, southwest England, amid allegations by Amnesty International that military aircraft have killed civilians in Nigeria. Yet the UK’s Ministry of Defence says it has no knowledge of this training.
How Britain’s Labour government facilitated the massacre of Biafrans in Nigeria – to protect its oil interests
by MARK CURTIS | 29 April 2020
TAGGED: Declassified Files, Nigeria
On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Biafran war, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in the late 1960s, declassified British files show that Harold Wilson’s government secretly armed and backed Nigeria’s aggression against the secessionist region.
Britain rebuffed Nelson Mandela’s appeal for oil sanctions against Nigeria after it executed environmentalists
by PHIL MILLER | 31 December 2019
TAGGED: Nigeria, Shell, South Africa