Biafran elders normally say that the cockroach cannot be innocent in the gathering of the fowls and neither can the fowl be chairman in the midst of the hawks. Just like Birago Diop, a renowned poet from Oaukam in Senegal would always say, that the principal problem of Africa is that she fails to…
Delta State governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, on Friday in Asaba called on security agencies to stop activities of herdsmen in parts of the state before it results into a major crisis. The governor, who made the call while playing host to the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 5,…
The International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague has indicated that it will investigate the September 2017 invasion of a community in Abia State, Nigeria by soldiers of the Nigeria Army during a military exercise codenamed Operation Python Dance. This was contained in a letter from the office of the prosecutor in response…
WARSAW — To Magda, giving birth would have meant inflicting a slow death. Her unborn child had a rare genetic syndrome that causes severe, fatal birth defects. “I would feed it, hug it, love it, get attached to it, and then, when it would be 3 or 4 months old, it would suffocate…
LIMA, Peru — Martín Vizcarra, who had been Peru’s first vice president and ambassador to Canada, was sworn in as the nation’s president on Friday afternoon, after Congress accepted the resignation of his predecessor, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who was brought down by scandals involving graft, vote-buying and a looming impeachment. In his inaugural…
BRUSSELS — Britain’s prime minister, Theresa May, won greater than expected support from the European Union on Friday over her escalating diplomatic battle with Russia, a significant victory for a leader who has often found herself isolated in Brussels as her country prepares to quit the bloc. After hours of discussion, European leaders…
GENEVA — The handsome stone edifice that serves as the headquarters for the World Trade Organization rises like a fortress over Lake Geneva, projecting an air of impregnability. But lately the institution looks vulnerable, sowing worries that global commerce itself may be in jeopardy. As the United States accuses China of predatory trading…
ENUGU— Heavy protests by irate youths broke out yesterday in Enugu at the popular Milliken Hill after several passengers met their untimely death following gunshots fired at a moving commercial transit bus by an operative of the National Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC. The commercial vehicle which later got mesmerized in an…
We the worldwide family of the Indigenous People of Biafra wish to draw the attention of the civilised world to what transpired at Justice Binta Nyako’s court in Abuja on Thursday 22 March 2018 at the commencement of the trial of 4 innocent Biafrans. The world must know that they are standing trial for…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide, under the Supreme leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is bringing to the awareness of the civilised world, the unjustified secret trial of it’s members held extra-judicially in prison custody for close to three years now. The presiding judge of an Abuja-based Federal High Court, Justice Binta Nyako…