These are pictures of riot policemen and women in Nigeria doing what they do best-which is extort, intimidate and brutalise innocent citizens going about their lawful business. You will be forgiven for thinking that there is war going on or a state of emergency in Nigeria going by the number of fire arms on the…
ONE was not too sure if the foremost literary stylist from Nigeria and Africa foresaw his passing on so soon? With his most recent slightly vituperative literary outing titled, There Was A Country, a literary-cum-historical bombshell on the Nigerian civil war in which he lampooned the persons of certain key figures of the fratricidal bloodbath…
Lagos — After several months of buck passing between the Presidency and stakeholders in the north on the emergence of Boko Haram Islamic sect and desirability of granting amnesty to its members, the Federal government, yesterday, took a major step towards granting them amnesty as it set up a committee to look at the feasibility…
Tension in Onitsha as Hausa residents flee city by Emmanuel Obe, Awka from PUNCH Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, on Tuesday said there would be no reprisal on northerners in the South-East following Monday’s bus bombing in Kano where more than 30 people were…
No writer is better placed than Chinua Achebe to tell the story of theNigerian Biafran war from a cultural and political perspective. Yet, apart from an interview with Transition magazine in 1968 and a book of Biafran poems, Nigeria’s most eminent novelist has kept a literary silence about the civil war in which he played…
The National Security Adviser, NSA, Mr Sambo Dasuki will be locked in a meeting with the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Mohammed Bello Adoke today to fine-tune the terms and membership of the committee that will work on the proposed amnesty programme for Boko Haram members. President Goodluck Jonathan had…
Bilie human rights initiative is a human rights organization for national liberation and independence of the biafran people with de facto government headquarters in Biafraland for the indigenous people of Biafra having the mandate to defend, uphold, protect and advocate for the rights of the indigenous people of biafra and guide them to self-determination and…
Shameless and Spineless On Kano Bombings–ReportsCulled from REPUBLICREPORTERSNew York[RR]AWKA–Apex Igbo Organization known as Ohaneze and Movement For Actualization Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) are shameless and spineless analysts and commentators say, related to the killing of Ndigbo in Northern Nigeria since 1945 till date. In recent killings over 108 passengers were reportedly slaughtered in Sabon Gari,…