OWENKERI: yesterday 18th April 2017, A chieftain of Ijaw people’s Assembly and a human right activist Mrs. Annkio Briggs, in Owenkeri (Owerri) Biafra land, who was present in the 1st Southeast and South-South international conference. During her speech, she said that northern Nigeria contributes zero percent to Nigerians economy; in her words she…
IPOB Press Statement 20 April 2017 BIAFRA RESTORATION IS UNSTOPPABLE: TANKO YAKASSAI CANNOT SPEAK FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE MOUTH We have taken ample time to dwell on the interview granted by Alhaji Tanko Yakassai and we have most sufficiently subjected the said interview to the forensic analysis of sapient extrapolation. Our…
By Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Emma Powerful Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), yesterday said there was no going back on the May 30, sit-at-home order for the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the Independent State of Biafra. IPOB stated that all Biafrans, no matter the states they were located must…
The Buhari-led government of Nigeria is said to be dismayed following IPOB’s pronouncement for a sit-at-home in honour of the Biafran heroes who died both during the war and after since the inception of its regime. It could be recalled that when same event took place in protest of Kanu’s detention, Nigeria’s economy suffered a…
This essay is about one of the most horrific events that has ever taken place in our history and one of the most graphic examples of ethnic cleansing that took place during our civil war in the quiet Delta town of Asaba. It is an event which mortified the civilised world and which brought our…
Some indigenes of Kano State have reacted to some statements by the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, with some describing them as critical and inflammatory comments on religious and family issues. Mr. Sanusi, a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, recently called for the regulation of marriage to second wives. He warned…
We shall never forget. We shall forever honor our Heroes and Heroines those that made the ultimate sacrifice for you and I to be alive today. Great Biafrans there is no best way to honor these brave men and women other than that we must ensure that the freedom for which they died we bequeath…
Amnesty International (AI) has called for an immediate end to human rights’ violation against the pro-Biafra activists in Nigeria. The group made the call in a letter by Evelin de Leliwa from its Germany office to the Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara. The Guardian obtained a copy of the letter dated March 20, 2017…
PAUL ARKWRIGHT AND THE INDIVISIBILITY OF NIGERIA: A LESSON IN INTERNATIONAL LAW We Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to state that the substance of this press statement is traceable to the diplomatic blunder committed by no less a person than the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, His…
I have followed closely the recent Biafra agitations and the comments for and against as well as the belief that Biafra only came in 1967 or that Biafra is only Igbo or landlocked. I want to tell all of us that Biafra problem is not Hausa/Fulani, it is not Igbo, Ijaw, Efik, Ibibio…