THE RESTORATION OF BIAFRA NATION

  The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Monday, alleged that operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, were secretly killing and selling body parts of its members. IPOB claimed that SARS operatives were killing and selling the body parts of its members to ritualists. The separatist group made the allegation in a statement signed and issued by its spokesman, Emma Powerful. According to Powerful: “We the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our great Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to bring to the notice of the international community the unabated secret abduction, torture, detention, and killing of our members by the wicked Nigeria security agents. “These callous beings in security uniform also sell off the body parts of some of their victims to ritualists. At the helm of this atrocity and inhumanity is the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS). “The Nigeria Police SARS in Awkuzu Anambra State and Obigbo in Igweocha Rivers State as well as Anti...

 M embers of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), living in South Africa, have urged the Israeli government and the United Nations to put pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the persecution of their members in Nigeria. In a statement sent to SaharaReporters on Saturday, they complained that the Department of State Services (DSS) had arrested people for listening to Radio Biafra, an online radio station created by the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu. They appealed to both the Israeli and UN government to force Nigeria to drop all charges against Kanu and release all their members in Nigerian prisons. Part of the statement read: "IPOB South Africa is urging the Israeli Embassy and the United Nations to uphold Its charter on indigenous peoples rights of self-determination and freedom, by compelling President Buhari and the Federal Government of Nigeria not only to release all Biafrans held in secret locations but also to tread with the utmost restraint and caution when dealing...

  The Organization of Emerging African States (OEAS), has renewed its call for the Nigerian government to meet the demands for the actualization of Biafra. OEAS is an international governmental organization that promotes self-determination and the end to colonial era boundaries in Africa. In a statement to DAILY POST on Sunday by its General Secretary, Ebenezer Derek Mbongo Akwanga, Jr., and Jonathan Levy, Chief Administrative Officer, the group noted that, “today, the people of Biafra fear the brutality of the Nigeria police who are slaughtering their own citizens and arming herdsman as pro-government militias. “The situation will surely escalate unless immediate action is taken,” it said. The OEAS further made the following demands to the Nigerian government: “All federal military and police forces in Biafra to stand down and return to their barracks. “A snap referendum on Biafran self-determination to be held within 90 days with OEAS, UNPO, and nonaligned observers supervising t...

  Nyesom Wike, the Rivers State Governor, has declared that members of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples Organization of Biafra, IBOP, can’t use the state to launch attacks. Wike also urged the 23 local government chairmen in the state and youths not to allow IPOB to hold demonstrations and hoist its flag within their jurisdiction in Rivers. The governor said this on Monday during a meeting with the Community Development Committees, youths leaders and council chairmen at the Government House, in Port Harcourt. In a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kelvin Ebiri, Wike labelled Rivers as the most accommodating State for all Nigerians. “We can never be against any ethnic group. We can never do that. We have lived in harmony with the Ibos, the Hausas, and Edo people,” he said. “Everybody that comes to this State we have lived in harmony with. So Nigerians must commend Rivers State as a place where you’ve never had a problem between this group and that group.” “There’s one te...

  Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Tuesday, disclosed that his group was in possession of the original Aburi Accord tapes. Aburi Accord was reached in 1967 at a meeting attended by delegates of both the Federal Government of Nigeria (the Supreme Military Council) and the Eastern delegates, led by the Eastern Region’s leader Colonel Ojukwu. The meeting was billed to be the last chance of preventing all out war. It was held between 4 and 5 January 1967. Kanu made the disclosure while noting that former Nigeria Military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon and Britain are in trouble. He vowed to expose the alleged lies told against former warlord, the late Chukwuemeka Ojukwu regarding the defunct Biafra. In a statement he issued, the IPOB leader said Gowon, Nigerian and British government’s are about to receive the biggest shock ever. According to Kanu: “The divinely-ordained noble family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is now in possession of...

  Area boys mount road blocks as police disappear for parts of Port Harcourt, southern Nigeria Tori be say road users and pipo wey dey live for Mile One, Mile Two Diobu area tell BBC Pidgin say area boys dey ask dem for money before dem fit allow anybody to move about. One man wey live for di Mile two area tell BBC Pidgin say di jaguda boys dey rob dem and dem no feel safe again. "Sometimes you go see dem three or four, dem go bracket pesin begin ask am, Senior man find us somtin na. If di pesin say im no get money, dem go begin knack ya pocket, collect anytin dem see, dat one no be broad daylight robbery? We no dey safe as dis boys don enter evri corner. Make Goment come out tell us say di curfew don end or not. Make dem do sometin, Ike Madu tell BBC. Anoda pesin, Austin Igwe say im see boys wey collect phones and money from pipo for Emenike area of Mile one, although dem no collect im own phone but pipo dey live in fear. Last week di state Governor Nyesom Wike declare 24 hour cu...

  The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Yoruba One Voice (YOV) have reiterated their resolve to achieve Biafra and Oduduwa Nations. Warning of an implosion in Nigeria, they told the federal government to between now and October 1, 2021, conduct a referendum to allow citizens choose whether to leave or remain in the country. This was contained in a joint release made available to DAILY POST on Friday. It was signed by Sina Okanlomo, YOV General Secretary and Chika Edoziem, Head, IPOB Directorate of State. The statement said Southern people were enduring life “with others, who do not share our own values, whose ways of life, mannerisms, ideology, are untoward, inimical, alien, hostile to our people.” The bodies noted that it is time to boldly jettison the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), “which was not a product of the collective will of the people.” They said the constitution was decreed into existence by the General Abdulsalami Abubakar ad...

  Former Niger Delta militant leader, Alhaji Asari Dokubo has called on people of the region to shun the protests against police brutality and scrapping of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, and focus on the reinvention of the Sovereign State of Biafra. In a Facebook post on Sunday, Asari addressed people of Niger Delta participating in the nationwide protests, which he said is a waste of time. According to the ex-warlord, there is nothing to restructure about Nigeria, insisting that it is a waste of time cooperating with the Yorubas in the #ENDSARS protests, adding that the only solution for Niger Deltans is to team together with the Ogonis and the Igbos and Efiks and reinvent Biafra. He said this was because nobody can oppress the Ijaw man in Biafra. Asari said that what the people need at the moment is political freedom and every other thing will come at the right time, “because you will control and hold your oil,” he said. “Anything else is not going to work unless we stand ...

  Biafra Nations Youth League, BNYL, has warned security operatives in the country against applying the Lekki style of attack on protesters in the South-East, and South-South. The group said it has made all necessary arrangement and is ready should the ongoing crisis in the country result to war. National leader of BNYL, Princewill Chimezie Richard, gave the warning in a statement to DAILY POST on Thursday. He accused the Federal Government of “planting hoodlums among peaceful protesters and creating a pro-government protest in Abuja and Rivers State in order to escalate crisis and declare State of emergency”. The BNYL also raised the alarm over the destruction of cars and workshops in Apo Mechanic area of Abuja by indigenes, insisting that the Tuesday attack affected mainly Igbo traders. The group said mechanic village is dominated by the Igbo people with property worth millions. BNYL also called on the international community to mount pressure on President Mohammadu Buhari to com...

  The Lagos State Government has directed all students in public and private schools to stay at home following the tension generated by the End SARS protests in the state. The state Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, issued the directive, on Monday stating that the safety of the students, parents and all staff working in schools was more important “at this critical period.” She urged parents to keep an eye on their wards and not allow them to be used as willing tools in the hands of those who might want to hijack the protests to unleash chaos on the society. The Commissioner also encouraged schools to utilize other means of distance teaching and learning such as radio, television and online media as they have been doing during and post coronavirus lockdown. She further revealed that a new date of resumption for all classes will be announced as soon as  possible.

  The Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, has named a retired Judge of the Ekiti State High Court, Justice Cornelius Akintayo and a retired Police Commissioner, Mr. Dipo Ayeni, as members of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry to probe into the allegations of human rights violations leveled against police officers in the state. The nationwide protests being staged in all the states and the Federal Capital Territory was conceptualised to protest against brutality by officers of the Special Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS). This was contained in a statement signed by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Yinka Oyebide and made available to journalists, on Monday. Other members of the panel are: Mrs. Yetunde Kolawole, State Counsel- Representing the Honourable Attorney-General & Commissioner for Justice, Mrs. Kikelomo Owolabi, Chairperson, Nigerian Bar Association, Ikere-Ekiti Branchand Mr. Rotimi Ojomoyela, Chair, Nigerian Union of Journalists, Ekiti State Branch. Others include: Mr. Jam...

  Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie, has called for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari over his inability to handle the poor situation of the country. The actor while reacting to the ongoing chaos in the country in a tweet, said has Buhari failed in his duty as the president of the country. According to him, Buhari called for Goodluck’s resignation on the basis of poor performance but today his performance is worse than that of the previous government. ”President Buhari was very vocal during the previous Govt. “He called for Goodluck’s resignation on the basis of poor performance. “Today Buhari’s performance is worse than that of Jonathan. “We put our hopes in him and he failed us. “I call for Buhari’s resignation,” he said. See tweet below.

  Pastor Paul Enenche of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, on Monday, led a prayer walk for Nigeria. Enenche, who is the Senior Pastor of Dunamis led the walk from the National Christian Ecumenical Centre, Central Area, Abuja by 8 am. The Dunamis pastor alongside his wife, Becky led thousands of Christians and his followers to walk and pray around the Central Area of Abuja. Addressing the crowd, Enenche said the End SARS protest was a reflection of the ills in the country. He urged the government to find an immediate solution to the protest. According to Enenche: “End SARS protest is a reaction to what is going on in Nigeria, particularly as regards to extrajudicial killings. For me, that is one aspect of monumental problems we have in our land. End SARS means end injustice, end oppression, end subjugation, end poverty, end hunger, end nepotism, bigotry; it means end every evil in the nation. We are doing that the same time because this time calls for aggressive spiritual interv...

  Founder of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, has again attacked leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu According to Vanguard, Dokunbo claimed Kanu has derailed the Biafran struggle. The agitatir, who said he’s a Biafran and believes in its struggle, maintained that the IPOB leader was not in any struggle for the restoration of Biafra. Dokunbo said, “It gives me regret that in my life I ever associated with a person called Nnamdi Kanu. That when he was in crisis, I came out to defend him. In fact, my greatest regret is associating with Nnamdi Kanu. I can’t make peace with somebody like him. It’s a foreclosed issue because he has nothing to offer other than to derail our struggle. “With Nnamdi Kanu, there’s no hope for Biafra. Those of us who get close to him know he’s not fighting for any Biafra. Nnamdi Kanu is just one individual in Biafra, so, we shouldn’t make him important, he’s not. He’s just like everyone one of us. “He’s not in a...

  A renowned preacher and president, Uma Ukpai Evangelistic Association, Rev. Dr Uma Ukpai has said no agitation either from the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB or from any other bloc in Nigeria is worth the life of any person. He urged all agitators to go about their way responsibly so that no life would be lost in the process. He also dismissed the media publications which erroneously portrayed him as either anti-Biafra or anti-Nigeria, saying that he belongs to both. Rev. Ukpai made the assertion on Thursday in Uyo when newsmen asked his position about Biafran agitations and other social unrest bedeviling the country. The cleric who called for peace recalled that agitation for the realization of Biafra started before the civil war, therefore, no more lives should again be lost in going about it, adding that it would be ‘madness’ for people to kill and be killed in this movement. He, however, said the approach for the emergence of Biafra and the approach by the federal governme...

  Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Thursday, vowed to launch Radio Biafra in President Muhammadu Buhari’s hometown in Daura, Katsina State. The secessionist group’s leader insisted that its Radio station would be established in the president’s community within the next six weeks. The IPOB leader, who spoke through the group’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, was reacting to a report that the Nigerian government had approved N654m to monitor and crash Radio Biafra’s frequencies in the Southeast. He stressed that the launch was to prove that IPOB was indefatigable. According to the IPOB leader, the wife of the president, Aisha would soon start listening to Radio Biafra in Daura, Katsina State. A statement by Powerful said: “The attention of the global movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our great Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been drawn to the approval of N654m by the Federal Government of Nigeria to monitor and crash Radio Biafra f...

  The President of Uma Ukpai Evangelistic Association, Rev. Uma Ukpai, has condemned Biafra Republic agitators, saying they have shown “the level of their madness”. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) are spearheading the separation of the South East from Nigeria. The groups have had several clashes with security forces that left some people dead and others injured. But speaking to reporters in Uyo yesterday, Ukpai insisted that Biafra agitation was not in the interest of Nigeria. According to him, any one agitating for Biafra at this point has shown the level of his or her madness. “There will always be crazy people, even when people are seen to be normal. Whoever is agitating for Biafra has shown the level of his madness. But everybody is mad, the difference is the level of your madness,” the popular cleric said. On the agitation for a president of Igbo extraction in 2023, he said a South Easterner de...

  Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu yesterday made a last-minute move to ensure issues about Biafra is debated by the Vice presidential candidates of the Republican,  senator Mike Pence and that of the Democrat, senator Kamala Haris at a Vice presidential debate held at the early hours of yesterday. In a press statement released by Kanu, it explained that he sent a questionnaire to the moderator of the debate, Susan page, Worshington bureau chief of US Today, requesting her to throw the floor open for discussion on the incessant extrajudicial killings in Nigeria. According to Kanu who gave his reason for his action said he believed America is respected all over the world and therefore capable to handle the situation in Nigeria. Kanu while explaining said “America’s history of defending the human rights of the persecuted and the oppressed around the world sets the nation apart and is why we, Biafrans, continue to work with ...