Weekend of Saturday/Sunday April 29th and 30th 1967.
Soundless news footage capturing developments in the Western and Eastern Regions of Nigeria. Colonel Adeyinka Adebayo is seen addressing leaders of the Yoruba-dominated Western Region who were meeting in the city of Ibadan to discuss the West's policy towards Nigeria's future including the pressing matter of the threatened secession of the Igbo-dominated Eastern Region led by Lt. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu.
The Western leaders, who favoured continued talks with the Eastern Region with a view to keeping Nigeria as a federation, were generally against the use of force. Lt. Colonel Ojukwu continued to insist on greater autonomy for the East, and told a rally that weekend in the town of Uyo that as far as he was concerned the crisis was over.
Footage: Reuters News Archive.
