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IPOB members appeal proscription order

  Members of the indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have appealed the decision of the Federal High Court in Abuja which allowed an ex-parte application proscribing the group in September, 2017. In a motion dated April 23 and filed at the Abuja Division of the Appeal Court on Tuesday, the IPOB members asked the appellate court to stop the Nigerian military from the “harassment, intimidation, incessant arrest and detention of IPOB members.” The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Abdul Kafarati, allowed the ex-parte application declaring IPOB as a terror organisation on September 20, 2017, following an appeal filed by Nigeria’s Attorney-General, Abubakar Malami. An ex-parte motion is a request by a party in an issue involving two parties for a decision of the court without hearing the views of the other party. Mr. Malami’s application was sequel to an approval for the proscription of IPOB by President Muhammadu Buhari. In the motion filed by IPOB’s lawyer, Ifea...

NEWS UPDATE : Benue killings Biafra youth reveal what would happen if herdsmen attack any Eastern state

  The group was reacting to the recent attack on Avar Mbalom in the Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue State where 19 persons were slaughtered including reverend fathers by the killer herdsmen. A group, the Biafra Nations Youth League, BNYL, has declared that it would attack the rampaging herdsmen terrorizing the country. In a statement signed and made available to BIAFRA NEWS MEN on Thursday by the group’s leader, Princewill Richard, BNYL condemned the attack and warned of a possible fight back should any of the Eastern states be attacked. The statement said, “Herdsmen menace has become a thing that bothers our Organization, we talk about it and how to tackle those sponsored ones almost everyday. “I want to make it known that any sponsored attack in any of the Eastern State especially areas bothering Benue, such as Cross River, Ebonyi and Enugu, we will launch a surprise attack on them. “We have nothing to fear, we are battle ready.” The group warned the...

Family of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has expressed anger and worry over the conflicting reports

  Family of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has expressed anger and worry over the conflicting reports concerning his whereabouts. They again called on the military to tell them where their parents and son, Nnamdi are as they have not been able to see or communicate with them since the army invaded their home last year. As a result, IPOB has threatened to embark on a mass action to force the government to produce Kanu.                                                  BIAFRA NATION Recall that soldiers invaded the house of the Kanus late last year and since then; both the IPOB leader and his parents had not been seen or heard of, fuelling speculation that they may have been detained or killed ...

NEWS UPDATE : What Appeal Court should do about our ban, terrorist designation – IPOB

  The separatist group made the call in a motion marked CA/A/214/2018 and filed by its counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, for stay of execution of the proscription order with 19 grounds yesterday. Part of the grounds on which the group anchored its application for stay of execution was that it had filed an appeal before the Court of Appeal in Abuja to challenge the proscription order. The group’s appeal has the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), as the sole defendant. Acting Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Abdu Kafarati, had on September 20, 2017, ordered the proscription of the Nnamdi Kanu-led group.  The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has called for the cancellation of the proscription order against it. IPOB urged the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal to suspend the enforcement of the order for its proscription by the Federal High Court in Abuja in September 2017. Kafarati also designated IPOB as a terrorist group...

BIAFRA : S’East Elders Forum Bothered About Biafra, Not Igbo Presidency

  South East Elders Forum (SEEF) has said it is more concerned about achieving an independent state of Biafra than a 2023 Igbo presidency. Convener of the group Dozie Ikedife stated this, adding that the Igbo have been promised such in the past but never saw them materialise. Concise News had reported that many leaders in the South East were canvassing for President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election as the surest route to Igbo Presidency in 2023. However, the former President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo said he was more interested in using all means to make Biafra a reality. “There are so many unfulfilled promises and our people often fall victims to lies,” Ikedife told the Sun News. “If someone has deceived you for about two or three times, if he comes the fourth time you will have a second thought. One is just tired of this country. “What bothers me is how to realise Biafra through legal and diplomatic processes, and through dialogue without fighting or abu...

IPOB : No amount of blackmail can stop Biafra

  Some Biafran protesters yesterday demonstrated at the Pall Mall Street, Westminster, United Kingdom, about 650 metres from Buckingham Palace, as President Muhammadu Buhari was meeting British Prime minister Theresa May, Queen Elizabeth II and other heads of state. The protesters, among other things, requested the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and a referendum on the fate of Biafra. While the protest was ongoing, the president and other heads of states were being received by May, the British PM and Patricia Scotland, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, at the official opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, CHOGM 2018.  The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday also insisted that no amount of blackmail would stop it from achieving the Biafra Republic. The leadership of IPOB was reacting to what it called the 'fabricated and fake statement' credited to someone who claimed to be a tr...

BIAFRA NEWS : Biafra: Injustice can make Igbo republic possible –Ezeife

  Former governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has said injustice against South East zone can make Igbo republic possible. Ezeife said there are   more indications of discrimination and inequities against the South East geo-political zone even without mentioning Python Dance or the whereabouts of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Ezeife warned that if the present administration fails to correct the wrongs against the South East zone, then, Biafra may become an inevitability, if the Igbo are pushed to the frustrating point of asking the question, ‘what is life worth? He made the remarks at the weekend, while speaking on the topic: “Political discrimination and inequity issues in national development,” at a seminar organised by the Diocese on the Niger, Anglican Communion. He said among the six major protocol offices in government (President, Vice President, Senate President, Chief Justice, Speaker and Secr...

BIAFRA LAND : Biafran group tells Buhari what to do to become Nigeria’s best president

Speaking through its National Leader, Princewill O Richard, the group said Buhari can put his name down in history as Nigeria’s best president byThe Biafra Nations Youth League, BNYL, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari on how to make himself the best leader Nigeria ever had. declaring the Sovereign State of Biafra.  The group, in a statement forwarded to DAILY POST, maintained that the outcome of the 2019 general election does not any way bother it. BNYL said that the group is not interested on who becomes the next President of Nigeria, adding that the killings going on in Nigeria and Federal Government’s inability to stop the menace show the country is under islamic control. It said this while backing the Chairman of the South East Elders Forum, and former President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Dozie Ikedife who said that the Igbos will no longer rely on fake promises and would continue with the demands for Biafra. It said, “President Buhari to quietly leave of...