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…
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. …
Family Writers Press International, a vibrant media branch of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has it that representatives of the Nigerian government based in Liberia, concocted trending lies, suggesting that the stoppage of IPOB family members, numbering about fifty (50), from attending an important family meeting, stemmed from acts of criminality. They were said…
The plot to utterly break down Biafran defenses, businesses and willpower is fully in motion and we seem lost in this cyst. Viewing closing the methodology being applied cunningly behooves me. The border closure was obviously done to paralyze Biafran businessmen and women. To compound their woes, they are also being persecuted at their bases…