America, under Richard Nixon, was prepared to recognise Biafra if Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu could hold Port Harcourt, the oil capital of Nigeria. This exposed the city to some of the fiercest battles in the Biafra-Nigeria War that left few buildings intact. Houses belonging to Rivers
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