Igbo Traders Protest as Fayose Imposes Outrageous Taxes (N180,000 to Igbo, N3,500 Yoruba) Scores of Igbo shop owners on Secretariat Road, Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, yesterday protested what they called “outrageous taxes” imposed on them by the Ayo Fayose administration.Over 100 shops belonging to Igbo traders, Zenith and Diamond banks and NNPC mega…
Biafra Protest Fueled By Buhari’s Treatment of Igbos, By Uche Ezechukwu NEWISSUES, Abuja I just hope that everybody appreciates that the escalation of this Biafra protests is being fuelled by the general frustration of the South East people over the way President Buhari has stubbornly decided to exclude the South East people from the scheme…
ASABA-PROTESTERS, Tuesday, stormed the entrance of Delta State Government House, Asaba condemning the arrest and detention of the Director of Radio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu. Gathered under the aegis of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Delta State chapter, the protesters, mainly women, demanded the immediate release of Kanu, describing his arrest as uncalled for and…
IPOB Nnamdi Kanu’s arrest – Nigeria’s Biggest Mistake BACKGROUNDThe Eastern part of Nigeria is a made of predominantly Christian population whose way of life is different from their Northern Counterpart that are predominantly Muslims. These two groups of people existed on their own without the other part for thousands of years before the coming of…
Nigeria, The West African ZooBy Tim Tochukwu It has become obvious that a great number of Nigerians distaste the labeling of their country as a zoo by Biafran activists, especially Radio Biafra and Biafra Television. They also show dislike to their being labeled as the monkeys and baboons inhabiting the zoo.But having thought deeply about…
Nigerians are terroristsBy Tim Tochukwu This piece is in response to an article written by a Nigerian who, it seems, joined the campaign spearheaded by agents of Nigerian government against radio Biafra, and (by implication) Biafrans. The writer (with a Biafran name – Peregrino Brimah), published the article with the title: “Before The First Eastern…
The Agent of the Nigeria, Directorate of State Security (DSS) in Lagos kidnapped the Director of Radio Biafra, Biafra Television and the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Worldwide, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. In a marathon broadcast of the Radio Biafra this afternoon, Saturday, September 17, 2015, hosted by Mazi Uche Mefor, the Deputy Director…
Yoruba group, the Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, has condemned what it described as an unrelenting desecration of Yoruba culture by the obsession of Igbo communities in having a crowned king in Yoruba domains. The socio-political group, in a statement issued on Friday, asserted that the title of Eze Ndigbo in Yorubaland is not backed by…
Some communities in Anambra West Local Government Area have been hit by the flood which reportedly submerged houses, destroyed farmlands as well as household items. The Chairman of the Council Area, Chief Simon Onuora, told newsmen in Nzam near Onitsha on Friday that the communities affected were Umuikwu Anam, Oroma Etiti, Umuemyi Anam, Umueze Anam,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his pledge to rout Boko Haram insurgents by the end of this year, but declared that he will not resign from office if the promise is not achieved as he would rather “stay and fight it out.” Buhari, who stated this during a chat with Al Jazeera’s UpFront programme, expressed…