For the past one week, there has been palpable tension in Gboko, the capital city of Benue State, which serves as the traditional Headquarters of Tiv ethnic group in Nigeria. This threat stems from the biting effect of a weeklong “Sit-At-Home” Protest embarked upon by Igbo Biafran traders in that part of Nigeria. It…
I want to categorically state here that some of us who joined this struggle lately are already tired and prevaricating. It requires mental toughness and if you cannot cope, my advise to you is to please kindly stay away. The current tempo of the agitation for the restoration of Biafra, ably led by Mazi…
The frustrated Nigerian Government are at it again with a sinister plan and murderous intention of sending military aircrafts to the peaceful South-East geopolitical zone to once again, carry out an ethnic cleansing of Biafrans in their numbers after conducting the infamous Operation Python Dance 1 and 2 which claimed innumerable innocent civilians in…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s face-saving statement during his recent interactive meeting with his US counterpart, President Donald Trump at the White House, Washington DC, that “Nigerian herdsmen” whose atrocities and heinous crimes against innocent citizens of the country has skyrocketed since his coming into power, do not carry AK 47s and that they only use…
IPOB PRESS RELEASE The leadership and family members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) consider it imperative to use this opportunity to announce the sit at home order throughout Biafraland and Nigeria in remembrance of our fallen heroes and heroines whose sacrifice made it possible for this generation to be alive today. We…
We IPOB note with dismay the criminal and deliberate misrepresentation by the Yoruba online media site Sahara Reporters regarding our May, 30th heroes remembrance day. It is deplorable that Sahara Reporters chose to falsify and twist our 30th of May sit-at-home press statement to give another meaning to that which was intended. The…
IPOB PRESS RELEASE We note with grave concern the orchestrated and coordinated attempt by certain unscrupulous Lagos based Igbo Efulefus who may have run out of money to fund their bogus lifestyle, to use IPOB to endear themselves to their Fulani masters. The comment reported in the Saturday Sun newspaper of May 5, 2018,…
ABURI — 4th/5th JANUARY, 1967 In an attempt to find a solution to Nigeria’s problem, yet nevertheless preserve Nigerian unity, the Supreme Military Council met at Aburi, Ghana, on 4th and 5th January, 1967. The principal objects of this meeting were threefold: firstly to review questions concerning the organisation of the Nigerian…
POGROM— 29th SEPTEMBER, 1966 On 29th September, as the Constitutional Conference was still sitting in Lagos, events occurred which will always rank as of the utmost significance in the social and political history of Nigeria, events which made fundamental changes in the structure and pattern of Nigerian society and government. On that day…
THE AD HOC CONSTITUTIONAL CONFERENCE On 12th September, 1966, the proposed Constitutional Conference began its sittings. Gowon called upon the Conference to discover a form of political association best suited to Nigeria in the light of recent developments. A Unitary form of Government and a complete break-up were expressly ruled out. He suggested…