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…
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…
Amnesty is the act of an authority officially forgiving certain classes of persons who are subject to trial but have not yet been convicted. It includes more than pardon in as much as it obliterates all illegal remembrance of the offence. Amnesty is more and more used to express freedom and the time when…
The Media and Publicity Secretary of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Emma Powerful, in this interview with TONY OKAFOR, explains why his group is against the Ohanaeze summit on restructuring and other issues Why is your group kicking against the Ohanaeze summit on restructuring? Ohanaeze Ndigbo has outlived its usefulness. An organisation that claims…
Published by The Biafra Times | April 3, 2018 If anything, the proposed amnesty for Boko Haram terrorists is confirmation that the entire information management machinery of this APC government is run on lies by a bunch of shameless liars led by the Minister of Information Alhaji Lai Mohammed. Is this not the same Boko…
Prominent Igbo group, the Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF), has demanded that governors of the five South East states and their counterparts in Delta and Rivers states in the South-South zone should immediately begin the process to enact Anti-Open Grazing laws to check the illegal activities of herdsmen in the region. The leaders urged…
ENUGU— Heavy protests by irate youths broke out yesterday in Enugu at the popular Milliken Hill after several passengers met their untimely death following gunshots fired at a moving commercial transit bus by an operative of the National Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC. The commercial vehicle which later got mesmerized in an…
NneNne Iwuji-Eme, a Igbo born Nigerian woman in the United Kingdom, is not just a career diplomat, but now the first black female in such capacity to be appointed a high commissioner as she is now to represent the country in Mozambique. The UK Guardian reports that NneNne Iwuji-Eme, before her appointment, had…
The evolving developments in Nigeria very clearly show that the government is defiantly disposed to it’s Islamization agenda, the adverse effects on non Hausa-Fulanis, notwithstanding. Biafrans in the present configuration of the Nigerian State is predominantly Judeo-Christians with zero Islamic tolerance. The government is surreptitiously and steadily, using terrorism as a tool to actualise…
RIVERS – The indigenes of Ogoniland under the aegis of Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), has drawn the attention of world leaders and all men of conscience to intervene in the situation in Ogoniland and to put pressure on the Nigerian government and the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, to immediately…