ASABA MASSACRE MEMORIAL MONUMENT
October 1967A massacre of over 1000 male population occured at Ogbeosowa Square
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In Memory of the Asaba massacre
On the 4th/5th, October 1967 the Federal Troops of the second division of the Nigerian Army entered Asaba en route to Biafra.
In the next days that followed, a massacre of the male population occurred at Ogbeosowa Square in Asaba. The Asaba people, wishing to show allegiance to the Federal Troops, had come out to welcome them with the hope of assisting a reduction of tension in the town. The Federal Troops separated the women from the men and coldly assassinated the men and buried them in shallow mass graves around Ogbeosowa village.
This short video gives an account of massacres of civilians that happened in Asaba, Nigeria, October 1967. It uses interviews with survivors and witnesses, to tell the story of an event that has largely been ignored for decades. Credit: Professor S. Elizabeth Bird and Professor Fraser Ottanelli
OCT 1967
The Asaba Massacre occurred in early October 1967, during the Biafran War, fought over the secession of Biafra (the predominantly-Igbo, former Eastern Region of Nigeria). Asaba (Igbo: Àhàbà) has an interesting ancestral lineage(its origin is linked to Ugboma, Ezeanyanwu, and Nnebisi) though linguistically Igbo, it was never part of Biafra. The people of Asaba typically identify as Anioma.
We will never Forget
“Earth Conceal Not the Blood Shed On Thee”
Video Resource on the Asaba Massacre and
Memorial Anniversary
Film Screening of The 7th Oct 1967 Asaba Massacre (The Asaba massacre occurred on October 5 – 7, 1967 in Asaba, Delta State, at the outset of Nigerian
Civil War. The massacre was reportedly targeted at the people of Asaba, [Asaba was within Nigerian Territory], and was perpetrated by the Nigerian Army – specifically the Second Infantry Division under the command of Murtala Muhammed and Ibrahim Taiwo).
And followed by a Panel Discussion
Panelists
Mr. Ademola Akinrele SAN / Mr. Yemi Candide-Johnson SAN / Mr. Olasupo Shasore SAN / Chief Chijioke Okoli SAN
Mr. Gambo Pam / Ms. Aduke Gomez / Mr. Ed Keazor / Chief Chuck Nduka-Eze
Chaired by: Chief Chuck Nduka-Eze – The Isama Ajie of Asaba & Chairman, Asaba Memorial Monument Committee – Executive Producer
Nze Ed Keazor – Executive Editor
Date: Wednesday – 26th November 2025.
HRM ASAGBA PROF. EPIPHANY CHIGBOGU AZINGE(SAN, OON, FNIALS, FICMIC, LLD(HC), KSJI, KSG TODAY CHAIRED THE SPECIAL SESSION OF ASABA MASSACRE FILM DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE HELD AT THE PRESTIGIOUS AFRICAN CENTRE, LONDON
26, OCTOBER 2025.
HRM Asagba Azinge SAN Warmly welcomed everyone who graced the Asaba massacre film Documentary premiere and thanked them for coming.
Firstly, let me commend Chief Chuck Nduka eze,Isama Ajie for a Job well done because it’s been worth the journey for me and I can go back home fortified in the knowledge that we have started the process of pushing the frontiers that will help the people of Nigeria give a decisive Answer to the yearnings of Asaba Kingdom after 58 years and still Counting.
I came basically to chair this premiere of Asaba massacre film Documentary and the first question that I would ask myself and ask you too,”what’s is your impression?
The Monarch emphasized that as at the time of the grossom murder of the Asaba people in 1967, One thousand person who lost their life’s was a great loss to the community which he specifically stated could have led to the existence of Asaba Kingdom.
Nna Agu explained that the people of Asaba kingdom are special breeds despite the grossom murder in 1967, the people of Asaba didn’t allow it to weigh them down but either made the kingdom stronger.
Executive Producer, Documentary Film Premiere Chief Chuck Nduka-Eze, who worked in conjuction with notable sons and daughters of Asaba to achieve what His Royal Majesty described as a master piece. appreciated HRM Asagba Azinge SAN for all his support in bringing this to fruition, believing that Nigeria government would do the needful by apologizing to the people of Asaba.
The ceremony had in attendance, Prof. Liz Bird and her husband from USA.and as well people of Asaba resident in the UK and USA.
Book Presentation by Chief Chuck Nduka -Eze, to HRM Asagba Prof. Epiphany Chigbogu Azinge (SAN, OON, FNIALS, FICMIC, LLD (HC), KSJI, KSG).
October 26, 2025 at the Lansdowne Club, Mayfair, London
Chief Chuck Nduka – eze, presented a book titled The House in Berkeley Square, authored by Maria Perry to His Majesty.
He acknowledged the presentation and announced that the book will be preserved in the library of the new Asagba Palace, where it will serve as part of the institution’s cultural and historical collection.
The book chronicles the history of the building at Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London. An iconic site where the American Articles of Independence was signed by Lord Lansdowne and John Adams in the 1770s. Originally the residence of Lord Lansdowne, a former Prime Minister of England, the property later became an exclusive English gentlemen’s club. It gained distinction as the first of its kind to admit Americans as members, eventually extending membership to women.
In the early 1990s, Chief Chuck Nduka – eze became the first Black man to be admitted as a member of this historic club.
The House in Berkeley Square also references a legal case handled by Isama during his early years as a junior barrister in the United Kingdom, in which he represented the famous British artist Damien Hirst whose work was then exhibiting at the Serpentine Gallery and was damaged by Marj Bridger, a curator, as an act of protest.
The 58th anniversary of the October 7, 1967, killings of hundreds of Asaba citizens during the Nigerian Civil War.
Fifty-eight years after the tragic Asaba massacre, the Asagba of Asaba, His Royal Majesty, Obi (Prof.) Epiphany Azinge (SAN), has renewed calls for national recognition of the victims, urging President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to immortalise them through an official presidential apology and the establishment of a Federal University in Asaba. (7th October 2025)
Remarking, legal luminary, Chief Chuck Nduka-Eze, underscored the significance of the Asaba Massacre and emphasised how the rest of the world can learn to rise from the ashes of misfortune, just as the Asaba people have done.
Some Pictures from the 58th anniversary of the October 7, 1967, killings of hundreds of Asaba citizens during the Nigerian Civil War.
Pictures worth a thousand words. October 7: Two uncanny massacres mark this date in history. In 2023, the Hamas massacre of the people of the new Jewish state. In 1967, the genocide of the people of Asaba— some say, of the ancient biblical Hebrew.
On October 7 2025, at the memorial held in Asaba’s Traditional Parliament, ‘Ogwa Ukwu,’ the names of the slain were read aloud to the King—the Asagba of Asaba—by representatives of the Diokpa, the eldest heads of each of the five villages.
The roll call of the dead unfolded like a dirge. Families with three, four, sometimes more siblings lost were named in solemn cadence:
* Ebenuwa / …
* Ebenuwa / …
* Elikwu / …
* Elikwu / …
* Juwah / …
* Juwah / …
* Juwah
And so it went—nearly a thousand names. Some singly called, others grouped in twos, threes, fours, fives, sixes…
All had dressed in spotless white (Akwa ocha) to welcome the soldiers, unaware of the horror that awaited.
* In four-per-family: the Akwule’s, Chidi’s, Okolie’s, Onwudinjo’s, Onyemenam’s…
* In fives: the Chukwuma’s, the Ijeh’s…
* In sixes: the Nwokolo’s…
* In sevens: the Isichei’s, the Mordi’s, the Okonji’s, the Okonta’s…
* In eights: the Nwosa’s…
But it was the Ojogwu family that broke the room.
* Ojogwu / …
* Ojogwu / …
* Ojogwu / …
* Ojogwu / …
* Ojogwu / …
* Ojogwu / …
* Ojogwu / …
* Ojogwu / …
* Ojogwu / …
When the ninth name was read, the hall erupted in grief. Cries of “It’s okay… it’s okay…” their cries transporting them back to the moment of the massacre—pleading, once again, for the soldiers to stop.
Then came the tenth: “Ojogwu”
Gasp.
Silence.
The convener stepped forward.
He reminded them that before the killings, the men were separated from the women. But two women were killed. One was his mother.
Gasp.
Silence.
His mother was the wife of Sylvester Nduka-Eze, the nationalist, trade unionist, and founding member of the Zikist movement.
The current Representative of the Federal House of Assembly stood up to remind the gathering that his grandmother, who was ‘The Omu’ at the time, was also killed —but not without spiritual repercussion.
Even the officiating Reverend Father had lost his father and uncle that day.
The Omu, Asaba’s Republican elected ‘Market Queen’ — titled as an Obi like the King but not the wife the king said something comforting, “They died for us just as Jesus died for us.”
The King said, “Growing up without parents is not the same…We deserve an apology from a sitting president.”
October 7.
A date etched in blood and memory.
*Re, Hebrew: Google research paper The Long Lost Ebionites…)
Presentation of Staff of Office to HRM.Obi Prof.Epiphany Azinge(SAN) the 14th Asagba of Asaba
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Presentation of Staff of Office to HRM.Obi Prof.Epiphany Azinge(SAN) the 14th Asagba of Asaba at OGWA-UKWU Asaba Delta State
