Tag: Biafra
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IPOB Makes u-turn, says no more sit-at-home in South-East
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said its Monday’s sit-at-home order remains canceled. IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, said anyone found to be enforcing the sit-at-home order across the Southeast is an agent of the Department of State Services, DSS. Powerful urged people of the Southeast to go about their normal businesses, adding that anyone…
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IPOB and the lost cause – Dele Sobowale
Dele Sobowale “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, in Beyond Good and Evil. These days, each time the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, is in the news, I weep quietly. The leaders of what started as a honourable struggle for justice…
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[Video] Soldiers arrest Chinwetalu Agu in Onitsha
Veteran actor, Chinwetalu Agu, has been arrested by some officers of the Nigerian Army for reportedly adorning Biafra insignia at the popular Upper Iweka area of Onitsha, Anambra State. The talented role interpreter was said to be in the commercial c
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Yoruba nation, Biafra agitators, Reno Omokri mount massive protest against Buhari in US [Videos]
The Yoruba Nation, Middle Belt; Biafran agitators; ex-aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri among other aggrieved Nigerians staged a grand protest against President Muhammadu Buhari-led government on Friday. The protesters also condemned the United Nations’ silence on the self-determination efforts of Nigerians was no longer golden. While addressing the protesters, Omokri listed some…
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South-east will be on lockdown every Monday till Nnamdi Kanu is freed – IPOB
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has announced that it will be enforcing a lockdown every Monday in the south-east until leader of the proscribed group, Nnamdi Kanu is released. IPOB’s publicity secretary, Emma Powerful tagged the lockdown ‘ghost Monday’ and also disclosed that schools and marketplaces will be affected. The group which accused the…
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BREAKING: Nnamdi Kanu absent as Judge adjourns IPOB leader’s trial
The trial of secessionist agitator and self acclaimed leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, at a Federal High Court in Abuja, resumed without Kanu, physically in court. When the matter was called around 11.10am, after counsel representing parties in the matter, lead counsel to the prosecution, Mr M. B. Abubakar,…
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Biafra will be the best country in the world with Nnamdi Kanu – Rita Edochie
Nigerian veteran actress, Rita Edochie has expressed hope of actualization of Biafra as a country, saying it will be the best country in the world. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the Anambra State born veteran Nollywood star stated this on Sunday via her official Instagram profile. Edochie was commenting on Obi Cubana’s burial of his mother when…
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A walk along Biafra street – Chidi Amuta
Chidi Amuta Of all the ghosts that haunt the Nigerian landscape, none are more stubborn than the restless ghosts of Biafra. They used to return annually to possess their devotees. Now they have become permanent residents in our lives through the social media and on television screens in our living rooms. They have gripped the…
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Allow Biafra go, Northern women group demand referendum for Eastern Nigeria
…as protest rocks Abuja …say we can’t bear the burden of another war …our husbands will be killed and we remain alone A group of women under the umbrella of the Amalgamation of Northern Women Associations, on Saturday, demanded a referendum to allow Biafran agitators to decide whether or not to remain in Nigeria.…
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Gulak: It’s political assassination, hold Uzodinma, not us – IPOB
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has reacted to the death of Ahmed Gulak, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, described Gulak’s death as a “professional assassination.” He insisted that members of the group were not responsible for Gulak’s death. DAILY POST reports that the Nigerian intelligence community had…