Former Biafran separatist leader Emeka Ojukwu was among those receiving the payments for retired soldiers at a ceremony in the capital, Abuja.
The government said the inclusion of 63 pardoned rebels in the payments showed the country had healed itself.
The eastern region tried to secede in 1967, sparking a bloody three-year war.
Some one million people died in the conflict, mostly from hunger and disease.
"Government has decided to fully integrate our compatriots who fought
on the other side of the unfortunate incidence of our civil war, it is the
culmination of the healing process that started the very moment the war
ended," said Defence Minister Mahmud Yayale Ahmed.
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Soldiers who fought for a separate state in 1967 are finally being given their promised pension. This fulfilled promise marks the beginning of a time of healing after years of conflict.
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