Since his arrest by the Nigerian government in 2016, the issue of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the neo-Biafran movement, IPOB, has generated a considerable amount of interest amongst American watchers of the Nigerian story. I have, in the recent past, written a few essays on issues arising from the matter of Nigeria and Biafra;…
In a counter Motion filed on February 6, 2018, the US-based lawyers for the Biafran plaintiffs who brought suit against some Nigerian officials have strongly urged a United States federal court to proceed to trial on the merits, stressing the damning fact the the US State Department has rejected a request from the Buhari-led…
October 2, 1966 Kano Massacre of Ibos on September 29 (Eyewitness account by Time Magazine correspondent.) “When it fought with U.N. force in the Congo, the Nigerian army’s 5th Battalion took special pride in its rigid military discipline. That was only three years ago, but as far as Nigeria concerned, it is the…
September 9, 1968 Nixon Sees Genocide in War against Biafra The United States Republican Presidential Candidate, Mr. Richard Nixon, today called for a halt on Nigerian genocide against Biafra. In a statement from his headquarters, Mr. Nixon called upon President Lyndon Johnson to devote “all the time and attention and imagination and energy…
April 5, 1968 Monsignor Rochcau Reports on Midwest Genocide Monsignor Rochcau, one of the two papal delegates representing Pope Paul VI in Nigeria, reports in Le Monde, a Paris newspaper, today that “between Benin and Asaba only widows and orphans remain, Federal troops having for unknown reasons massacred all the men.” (Le Monde)…
NAIROBI — The most widely watched television stations in Kenya are shuttered, and the government has defied a court order to return them to the air. Opposition politicians are under arrest, and journalists have also been threatened with jail. And the government has officially designatedsome of its opponents “an organized criminal group.” “This is a…
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 4,400-year-old tomb near Cairo that contains rare wall paintings and is believed to belong to a high-ranking Egyptian priestess, government officials said on Saturday. The tomb is thought to be that of a priestess named Hetpet, Mostafa Waziri, the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said…
JOHANNESBURG — It is, in South Africa’s political parlance, the season of the two centers of power. In December, Cyril Ramaphosa was elected leader of the African National Congress and, given the party’s pre-eminence, he immediately became the nation’s president in waiting. That left President Jacob Zuma — the former leader of the party who had backed Mr.…
WASHINGTON — The United States banned the export of weapons and defense services to South Sudan on Friday in a reflection of the Trump administration’s growing frustration over that nation’s grinding civil war. The ban has little practical effect, since the United States does not sell weapons to the country. But the announcement on…
Biafrans I wish to notify and equally remind my faithful, focused, determined and fearless Biafrans working assiduously for the project of Biafra nation which is about the Biafra proposed referendum around the corner, set to be unveiled in no distant time. It is pertinent to let you know that much is expected from all…