The United States government has said that it does not see the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, as a terrorist organisation. While the Federal Government of Nigeria has proscribed IPOB and labeled it a terrorist organization, the US government, however, said it does not see IPOB as a terrorist organisation. It said, although US is […]
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The Federal Government, on Wednesday, alleged that apart from receiving money from looters in Nigeria, secessionist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, was receiving a large chunk of its financing from France. According to correspondent, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this during an interview with State House correspondents after the […]
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Chairman of Air Peace, Mr. Allen Onyema, has announced the investment of over ₦350 million in the provision of non-violence skills training for 45 members of Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Arewa Youths (AY) and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as part of his contribution to boosting peace and ethnic harmony in the country. Onyema said […]
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Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters today declared the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) a militant terrorist organisation. Director, Defence Information, Major-General John Enenche, in a statement on Friday, said parents should dissuade their wards from joining the group and that the Armed Forces will confront “all security challenges facing the country, ChannelsTv report. Enenche listed reasons for […]
Read More The Coalition of Northern Youths who recently issued quit notice to the Igbos living in Northern has again written an open letter to the Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, saying that the Igbos are not repentant about Biafra. The Northern Youths in the open letter jointly signed by Shettima Yerima, Joshua Viashman, Aminu Adam, Abdul-Azeez […]
Read More The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Saturday officially asked Biafrans, other Southerner in the north to start packing. The group reacting to the quit notice served on Ndigbo in the north on Saturday said it thanked the Arewa Elders Forum (AEF), Arewa Youths and Arewa Consultative Forum for seeing sense in what IPOB has […]
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Exactly a day like today, 30 May 1967, Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the then Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria declared the sovereign state of Biafra in a speech that got Ndigbo fighting for self independence from Nigeria. For three years, the defunct Country, Biafra, fought Nigeria in a civil war that claimed millions of lives. […]
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Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since the declaration of an independent republic of Biafra sparked a brutal civil war. In Onitsha, the economic hub of Anambra state on the banks of the River Niger, most markets were closed and the streets were largely empty […]
Read More Fifty years ago, the Igbo people of southeast Nigeria seceded, declaring an independent Republic of Biafra and sparking a brutal civil war that left about one million people dead. – Coups and secession – On May 30, 1967, the military head of Nigeria’s eastern region, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, declares “the independent Republic of Biafra”. His […]
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The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, who is facing charges bordering on treasonable felony. Trial Justice Binta Nyako said her decision to release Kanu on bail was based on health grounds. The court held that Kanu must produce three […]
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The Indigenous People of Biafra has declared May 30 as the day all supporters of Biafra will sit at home without going anywhere or doing any work. This, it said, would be to use the day to honour the Igbo who had lost their lives in sectarian killings in the country from 1945 to date. […]
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The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said the continued incarceration of its leader and Director of Radio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu is not because of any alleged offense he was said to have committed, but to impress President Muhammadu Buhari. It alleged that President Buhari had on December 30, 2015, during his maiden Presidential […]
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