Officials of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have been accused of subjecting Igbo travellers to hardship by seizing rice meant for household consumption at its numerous checkpoints in the region. This allegation was made by former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, at the end-of-the-year meeting of Diamond Brothers Club held yesterday at Oriental Hotel,…
Faced with jihadist breakthrough in Burkina Faso, neighbouring states in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea increasingly fear attacks in their own territories. These countries should improve intelligence sharing, strengthen border controls and regain the trust of local populations. What’s new? Islamist militants’ lengthening reach in the Sahel, particularly in Burkina Faso, is a growing…
Chairman of Economic Community of West African States, Mahammadou Issoufou, has called on member states to take decisive steps in tackling terrorism in their countries. Issoufou, who is also President of Niger Republic, made the appeal during the 56th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of States and Government in Abuja, Nigeria. He…
A slow-motion war is under way in Africa’s most populous country. It’s a massacre of Christians, massive in scale and horrific in brutality. And the world has hardly noticed. A Nigerian Pentecostal Christian, director of a nongovernmental organization that works for mutual understanding between Nigeria’s Christians and Muslims, alerted me to it. “Have you…
The United States on Friday issued a warning to Nigeria and two other countries over what it perceives as lack of religious freedom and persecution of minority groups. The Donald Trump administration states that Nigeria remains a ‘country of particular concern,’ even as Sudan was removed from the blacklist of countries lacking religious freedom. The…
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) says the inclusion of referendum clause in the constitutional amendment will pave the way for the restructuring of the country. The National Assembly has been urged by the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) to include the referendum clause in the constitutional amendment to pave the way for the restructuring of…
A leading pro-Biafra group, Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign States of Biafra (MASSOB) has called on the Governors and leaders of the Igbo dominated South East region of the country to give befitting burial to parents of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Uchenna Madu, the leader of…
The spokesperson for Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF), and Former Commissioner for Information in Ebonyi State, Chief Abia Onyike has warned that if the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and other pro-Biafra groups decide to take up arms like the insurgents in the north, Nigeria will not last six months. Onyike, a former Deputy…
IPOB PRESS RELEASE We the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) wish to felicitate and commend Biafrans, friends of Biafra and lovers of freedom over their resoluteness, determination and support in the ongoing righteous agitation for the restoration of the nation of Biafra, especially in this season of goodwill. We are equally…
Recall that on the 2nd of December, 2019, a combined team of Nigerian military and police invaded the home of Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, burning down houses, killing four, and leaving many with severe bullet wounds. The major target, Barrister Ejiofor, being missed, the murderous police team has declared him wanted. …