Biafra

Unfortunately, “Skip” lost all his own records when he was forced to flee south-east Nigeria during the civil war, which started in July 1967 when the region's leaders seceded from Nigeria and formed the nation of Biafra.

The soldiers were attacked on Thursday at a checkpoint in Abia state’s Aba town where the separatists were enforcing a lockdown to commemorate the short-lived Republic of Biafra which, in 1967, fought and lost a deadly civil war to become independent from Nigeria, defense spokesman Maj.

A shaggy outsider during the height of grunge, Nixon busied himself by forming a band called the Toadliquors, using them as the backing band for “Prairie Home Invasion,” his 1994 collaborative effort with former Dead Kennedy singer Jello Biafra, then taking them on the road as his support for his 1995 album “Whereabouts Unknown.”

When Biafra declared its independence from the rest of Nigeria in 1967, Nigeria imposed a military blockade and starvation campaign.

Conflict broke out after an Igbo general declared the breakaway state of Biafra.