October 26 2020 | Radio Biafra Chairman of the South-East Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, has called for calm while urging Igbos all over the country to shun all forms of protests. Umahi, made the call, on Saturday, while taking stock of property destroyed in the state by protesting youths,…
October 26 2020 | Radio Biafra “Dr. Richard A. Joseph, professor emeritus at Northwestern University and previously of the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His 1987 book Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria: The Rise and Fall of the Second Republic has done much to…
October 26 2020 | Radio Biafra Operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) were allegedly involved in the extra-judicial killing of 30,400 Nigerians in the last 16 years, a newly-released report has said. The report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law…
October 26 2020 | Radio Biafra In the past few days, there has been an insurrectional uproar across Nigeria, sequel to the assault meted out to the peaceful EndSARS protesters by Nigerian security operatives. Public utilities, private firms, malls, police stations; including financial institutions, were reportedly plundered in the heat of the uprising. …
October 26 2020 | Radio Biafra It is most betraying that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State could so condescend to relabel and reinforce the concocted proscription of IPOB activities in the state on Friday 23rd October 2020 due to some covert interests. As an educated, enlightened and intelligent lawyer, it was expected that…
October 26 2020 | Radio Biafra Senior pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Jesus Christ Ministry, Adewale Giwa says he would have fired Nigeria’s Vice president, Prof Yemi Osinbajo from the Redeemed Christian Church of God. Giwa, who was addressing his members on the state of the nation, in Akure on Sunday, wondered…
October 26 2020 | Radio Biafra No fewer than 50 people were kidnapped by terrorists in Lingyado, a town in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State, on Sunday. The victims, mostly farmers, were reportedly abducted along with their traditional ruler during an attack that lasted many hours. One of the residents who witnessed the…
October 25 2020 | Radio Biafra The Prime Minister of Great Britain, Boris Johnson has a choice either to make history or follow the dehumanizing history of his forebears for lumping Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria Protectorate together, against the people’s volition in a forceful Amalgamation in 1914 by Lord Frederick Lugard. Devoid of cathartic…
October 25 2020 | Radio Biafra The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has defined the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) as ‘State-Aided Robbery Squad’. During his Sunday sermon, the cleric claimed that “although the Special Anti-Robbery Squad has been disbanded, the spirit…
October 25 2020 | Radio Biafra Okechukwu Nwanguma is the Executive Director, Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre, an organisation that promotes justice for victims of human rights violation and has handled several cases of human rights violation by the Nigeria Police. He tells ALEXANDER OKERE how the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the…