The Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration (AFRDC) is observed on 15 January in Nigeria. It serves to honour veterans of the First and Second World War and Nigerian Civil War as well as to commemorate the servicemen of the Nigerian Armed Forces. Being a former British colony, Remembrance Day was formerly celebrated on 11 November as Poppy Day in honor of the end of the First World War. Upon the government victory, against Biafran troops on 15 January 1970, "the day, the instrument of surrender was handed over to Olusegun Obasanjo by Philip Effiong of the Biafran army", hence, the holiday was moved off the calendar of the Commonwealth of Nations and was changed to 15 January in commemoration of the conclusion of the Nigerian Civil War that sought to tear apart the unity of Nigeria.
