People in southern Ethiopia’s Sidama region are voting in a referendum on whether to create a new regional state along ethnic lines. Polls opened at 6am (03:00 GMT) on Wednesday 20 November 2019 and closed at 6pm 20 November 2019 (15:00 GMT). Preliminary results are expected on Thursday. The Sidama drive for statehood, which goes…
Election officials in Ethiopia’s ethnic Sidama region counted votes on Thursday from a referendum that many expect will approve the creation of a new federal state. The vote, completed on Wednesday, is seen as a critical test in a nation already struggling with community tensions. Analysts say it could inspire other groups to push for…
Biafrans are mystifying people who even live to tell the best tale under ‘persecution’ or hash conditions. This is a fact, not paranoia. Biafrans are majorly aversed, adaptable, versatile and enterprising people, multi-talented, business-orientated and well-travelled. In fact, for an average of every ten Nigerians seen outside the shores of Nigeria, six or seven are…
General Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, of blessed memory, selflessly championed the defense of the Biafran nation against the Nigerian military and her foreign allies between 1967 and 1970. Biafrans it should be clearly stated, were marked for annihilation by the Hausa-Fulanis and their Yoruba counterparts on a revenge mission schemed against Major Kaduna Nzeogwu led…
Amnesty International has accused President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration of employing security agents and the judiciary to persecute Nigerians. The global human rights organization said this while condemning the detention of Omoyele Sowore at Department of State Services, DSS. The secret police who have refused to release Omoyele Sowore, convener of the Revolution Now Movement, had…
ABUJA – The United Nations and the European Union Special Representatives to West Africa and the Lake Chad Basin Commission on Wednesday met with the Chief of the Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, in Abuja, saying that the Boko Haram insurgents must be checkmated and their spread stopped. The UN Special Representative for…
In developed countries; the police is a civil service work, and an agency of the executive arm of government that maintains and enforces law and order in the society. But in Nigeria, it is a militarilized force, that carries gun, the same way the military go about with it, as if we are at war…
ASSIGNMENT TO EVERY FREEDOM FIGHTER; SPREAD THE ATROCITIES HAPPENING IN NIGERIA ROUND THE WORLD Our people yearn for information. They want us to inform them of what we are doing and tonight I’m doing it. It is not every time that you hear very volatile press statement from us, of course not. Sometimes it is…
A COUNTRY THAT HAS CONSCIENCE WILL RISE UP SOON AND SAY “IT’S TIME FOR BIAFRA TO GO” Do you know that the entire Sahel, so to speak, all those Islamic countries, do you know they Support the Zoo (Nigeria)? COUNTRIES LOBBYING FOR NIGERIA I want you to understand very carefully, when you have Britain…
Nowhere in the world has it happened before. It is unheard of; Nigeria is setting the pace in this case. Of course, an enclave of beasts and dozing morons, it often sets the pace in negativities and retrogression. Freedom of speech is fundamental to humans, only a beast seeks to take it away. And…