THE RESTORATION OF BIAFRA NATION

President Muhammadu Buhari says with the experience of the Nigeria’s civil war that lasted 30 months, the country is capable of defeating Boko Haram insurgency. The civil war was fought between the government of Nigeria and the secessionist state of Biafra from July 6, 1967 to January 15, 1970. Boko Haram insurgency has been on in the north-east for over a decade, and the crisis has displaced about 2 million people.  While receiving Janez Lenarcic, the European Union (EU) commissioner for crisis management at the state house on Friday, Buhari, however gave assurance that it may take long but Nigeria will move ahead of the insurgency.  “If we were capable to fight a 30-month civil war and reorganised our country, I wonder why people are thinking that Nigeria cannot do it,” the president said in a statement issued by Femi Adesina, his spokesman.  “I assure you of Nigeria’s commitment to enhance and deepen cooperation with the EU in all areas. Our priorities ...

Emmanuel Ugwu in Umuahia Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo Monday lamented the inability of Nigeria to leverage on the engineering and technological ingenuity that emanated from the defunct Republic of Biafra during the civil war. He expressed the regret at a town hall meeting at the National Museum, Umuahia organised by the Ken Nnamani Centre for Leadership and Development to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of Nigeria civil war. The vice-president noted that there was an attempt to harness the Biafra technology by establishing the Project Development Agency (PRODA), Enugu to replicate and improve on the Biafra technological feats exhibited during the war. However, he said that the objective was not achieved but did not explain the reasons why PRODA was allowed to collapse. Prof. Osinbajo, who was accompanied to the War Museum by the host governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma and Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Mr. Uche Ogah, h...

Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo has said all Nigerians, despite ethnicities, must join hands together to build a strong nation where everyone can legitimately aspire to the limits of their dreams and visions in all areas of national life. According to his Spokesman Laolu Akand, Osinbajo stated this on Monday in his address at a special Town Hall Meeting at the National War Museum in Umuahia, Abia State, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. The event was hosted by the Civil War Museum in Umuahia under the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) and the Ken Nnamani Centre for Leadership and Development (KNCLD). In his address, the Vice President urged young Nigerians to shun ethnic prejudices and unite in building a better Nigeria. “The generations born after the Civil War are navigating the adventure of being Nigerian on different terms from their forebears. Let us give them a chance to do better than ourselves,” the Vice Preside...

The  Federal Government  led by  President Muhammadu Buhari  has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to reject a request by the leader of the  Indigenous People of Biafra  (IPOB),  Nnamdi Kanu , to restore his revoked bail. Naija News  understands that the Buhari government filed a counter-affidavit before the court to oppose an application filed in April last year by Kanu seeking the restoration of his bail. The prosecuting counsel, Magaji Labaran filed the Federal Government’s objection to the application on January 17, 2020. This online news platform recalls that before Kanu disappeared from Nigeria sometime in September 2017, he was being prosecuted on charges bordering on treasonable felony instituted against him as a response to his agitation on the IPOB platform for the secession of an independent Republic of Biafra from Nigeria. The IPOB disappeared from Nigeria following soldiers’ invasion of his home in Afara-Ukwu, near...

The Federal Government has moved to ensure that Nnamdi Kanu is arrested and brought before the Nigerian court. The Federal Government has vowed to ensure that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, is arrested and made to face all charges against him. The federal government has also urged the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to throw out any request by the IPOB leader seeking a restoration of his bail. Recall that  Justice Binta Nyako , on March 28, 2019, revoked the bail she granted Kanu in April 2017, ordered his arrest, and directed that the trial would continue in his absence. What this means is that Kanu can be arrested and brought before the court if apprehended within the country. Nyako's decision was largely due to Kanu's absence during his trial. The IPOB leader, standing trial for treasonable felony, had disappeared from the country after the Army allegedly invaded his father's house in September 2018. In April 20...

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has called on Governors of Southwest States to allow the Operation Amotekun embrace all citizens living in the sub-region. MURIC also advised that the new security organization should not lean towards any religion or target any ethnic group for victimization. The call was made in a statement on Monday issued to DAILY POST by the Director of the human rights organization, Prof. Ishaq Akintola. This was sequel to the resolution of the governors of the South West to give a legal backing to the Amotekun security outfit. The statement added, “No homo sapien compos mentis living in Yorubaland will oppose the setting up of a security outfit to complement the existing security agencies on ground (the army, police, NNDC, DSS, etc). “We all want lives and properties secured all over Nigeria. That is why people living on every street have security arrangements in place while some individuals also have both day and night guards in their priva...