Tag: Biafra
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Nnamdi Kanu receives heroic welcome in Rivers
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu attracted a mammoth crowd when he visited the Ijaw Elders’Council in Port-Harcourt, Rivers state yesterday. Contrary to his bail conditions, Kanu was welcomed by his supporters who gathered on the road to praise him. Recall that on the 25th of April, 2017, a Federal High…
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Nnamdi Kanu’s utterances steadily reducing his influence – Jonathan’s aide
A former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has cautioned Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) over his utterances. The former Presidential aide faulted the IPOB leader over his alleged statement on the competency of former President Goodluck Jonathan. Omokri said: “In my widely published article advising Ndi’Igbo, I noted…
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Biafra: Governorship election won’t hold in Anambra in November – Nnamdi Kanu
…Says FG should build more prisons to jail ‘biafrans’ The embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday warned that the governorship election in Anambra scheduled for November this year may not hold if the Federal Government fails to recognise the Republic of Biafra. Kanu, who spoke at his father’s…
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No law empowers Osinbajo to jail us for seeking self-determination – IPOB
Indigenous People of Biafra on Tuesday tackled the Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, over his comment to deal with Biafra agitators and hate mongers, saying that the group won’t be intimidated by such utterances. Osinbajo had on Sunday warned that persons agitating for secession and the northern groups that issued the ultimatum to Igbo risked…
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Political elites responsible for Biafra, N’Delta, Arewa agitations – Osinbajo
The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Sunday attributed the current ethnic and regional tensions in the country to the handiwork of some political elites. Osinbajo made this known at a meeting of regional youth leaders organised by the Office of the Special Assistant to the President on Youth and Student Affairs at the NICON Transcorp,…
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We don’t see Kanu as a leader in South East – Presidency
The Presidency has said the government does not see Nnamdi Kanu, of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) as a leader of thought in the south-east region. Special Adviser to the President on Political matters, Babafemi Ojodu said this while explaining the reason Kanu was left out of the meeting Acting President Yemi Osinbajo held…
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Secession agitation: Jonathan’s defeat bigger threat than Biafra – Amaechi
…Says Nigeria can never break up The Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi on Tuesday said the defeat of former President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 Presidential elections by President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was “a bigger threat than Biafra”. Amaechi said Nigeria would have plunged into another civil war in 2015,…
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Northern youth should be charged with treason like Nnamdi Kanu – Ohanaeze
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said Northern youths have committed a more greivous crime than IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The youths had asked all Igbos in the North to leave while urging Northerners in the Southeast to return home. The Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Chuks Ibegbu in an interview with Punch said the actions of the…
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Disregard threat by Northern youth – FG
The Federal Government has, on Wednesday, asked Nigerians to remain calm and disregard the threat issued to Igbos by the Northern youth. A coalition of Northern youth, including the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, had in a press conference asked that Igbos vacate the North and the Hausas in the South to return home. Speaking to…
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Urhobos are not Biafrians, we are Nigerians – Senator Omo-Agege
Ovie Omo-Agege, the senator representing Delta Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly has come out smoking, declaring that the Urhobos who form the majority ethnic group in Delta state are not Biafrans, but Nigerians. In his words, “the Urhobo Nation has never been, is not and does not wish to be part of Biafra.”…