The attention of Igbo Ekunie Initiative, a coalition of professionals in Nigeria and the Diaspora was recently drawn to trial proceedings in Mr Nnamdi Kanu’s case wherein, Justice Binta Murtala Nyako declared that Senator Enyinnaya Abbaribe, who had stood as one of the sureties, must produce Mr Kanu or go to jail. We find this…
Biafra as a nation has suffered incalculable losses in the course of its struggle and fight for freedom and independence. The land of the rising sun – Biafra, is a nation forced into the contraption called Nigeria. Nigeria is a contraption created by the British colonial authorities, it is a forced merger of various distinct…
Miss Anthonia Nkeiruka Ikeanyionwu, aged 20, was among the fallen heroines who met their untimely death during the picketing at Ojukwu gateway, Onitsha Head bridge on Wednesday, December 2, 2015, by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB). Tragedy struck when few weeks to the end of the year, bullets from the guns…
Since the freedom fighting movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB), unified the entire Southeast and South-South geopolitical space into “Biafra,” many Biafrans’ finest and brightest men and women, artisans, students and civil servants have volunteered for selfless services to restore the lost nationhood. Their duty is difficult and their service in peaceful demonstration…
Artur Alves Pereira is another lover of freedom and one of the squadron commanders during the Biafra war, well known for his bravery in taking some calculated risks in order to help maintain and hold onto the seemingly only remaining Biafran airstrip (Uli Airstrip) used in smuggling relief materials into the Biafra territory for the…
Abie Nathan was born of Jewish parents, on April 29, 1927, in the Persian city of Abadan, Iran. He was born with a birthmark, which an expert had supposed an indication to achieving great things. So he did as he fought during the Second World War (at the age of 17) with the Royal Indo-British…
The annual commemoration of 30th of May, to a genuine Biafran, vividly stands out for two important reasons, viz: A day that serves as a reminder that over 3.5 million Biafrans were gruesomely massacred between 1967 – 1970, which is yet ongoing. It is Biafrans’ Pogrom Remembrance Day. It is a day of obligation…
It has become imperative for the leadership and entire family members of the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide, to reiterate once again the absolute importance of strict compliance with the sit-at-home directive issued by the highest command of IPOB on 30th of May 2018. Every family, kindred, village, clan, town across the length…
Press Statement The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide led by Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu shall on the 30th of May 2018 be honoring and remembering the millions of victims of the Biafran Genocide which include victims of all the pogroms carried out in the Arewa Northern Nigeria from 1945 to present, those killed during…
The image so often associated with Africa – a child with stick-thin limbs and swollen belly – dates back to the first televised famine, the Biafra war. The man who understood the power of that image was an Oxford-educated Nigerian soldier, Emeka Ojukwu. Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, to use his full name, proclaimed the short-lived…