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BIAFRA NEWS : 2023 Presidency, I Can’t Tell If I Would Contest – Ex-President, Jonathan

  Jonathan said he could not tell if he would run for presidency in 2023, Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday reacted to calls that he should run for the 2023 Presidency. Jonathan said he could not tell if he would run for presidency in 2023, Daily Post reports. He disclosed this while addressing some supporters who besieged his office in Abuja, asking him to run for the Presidency in 2023. Jonathan was quoted as saying, “I cannot tell if I’m contesting.” Hundreds of supporters, including women and youth groups, had stormed his office, asking him to contest for President in 2023. The supporters arrived at the office with a musical band around 8:50am. They lamented that hunger, insecurity,  and unemployment, among others, had become the order of the day since he left office. The supporters said that both men and women had turned to beggars because of the unfavourable policies of the present administration.

BIAFRA NEWS : If Biafra Comes, An Igbo Man Will Still Destroy It – Apostle Suleman Knocks South-East Over Disunity

  Suleman opined that the problem of the Igbos were the Igbos. The President of Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has claimed that the Igbo are the problem of Igbo and are always destroying one another. Suleman in a sermon said the Igbos never support their own and would publicly disown one another. Making reference to the struggle of Biafra, Suleman said if the nation was created, it would still be an Igbo man that would destroy it as they did not support one another. He made reference to the emergence of an Igbo Senate President Evan Enwerem whom he said was removed by another Igbo man, Chuba Okadigbo who was also replaced by Anyim Pius Anyim. Suleman opined that the problem of the Igbos were the Igbos. He said, “Somebody from the South, somebody from the East. You betray your people. Look at this agitation for Biafra. Who are the people attacking Biafra most, Igbos? Shameless Igbos. Am I in support of Nigeria dividing? No. Am I in support of Nigeria separating? No....

BIAFRA NEWS : IPOB insists April 27 ban on open grazing, beef sacrosanct

  The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has re-affirmed April 27 as date set aside for the enforcement of the ban on open grazing and beef consumption in the South East. Also, the group, in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, yesterday, disclosed that enforcement of the ban on open grazing in the zone, which had since been pronounced by South East governors and passed into law by many states in Biafra land, would take effect simultaneously. It, therefore, advised anybody dealing on cow business in the South-East to have a ranch, warning that any cow seen after the deadline will be treated as contraband. “Anybody interested in cow business in Biafra land must have a ranch, and properly mark the cows with their ranch name or symbol for easy identification. “The measures have become necessary to stop the senseless and wanton killings in Biafra land by Fulani jihadists masquerading as herdsmen. “Cows seen outside ranches with effect from April 27 shall be ...

BIAFRA NEWS : Why court reduced FG’s charge against Nnamdi Kanu from 15 to 7

  The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, struck out eight out of the 15-count treasonable felony charge the Federal Government preferred against the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB,  Nnamdi Kanu. Trial Justice Binta Nyako held that the charges were mere repetitions that did not disclose any offence that could be sustained by the proof of evidence before the court. FG had in the counts that were struck out, alleged that Kanu had through his broadcasts, incited members of the public to not only stage a violent revolution, but to attack police officers and also destroy public facilities in Lagos State. While the court threw out counts 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12,13 and 14 of the charge, it okayed Kanu’s trial on counts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 15. The ruling followed an application Kanu filed to quash the entire charge against him, which he insisted was manifestly incompetent and legally defective. The embattled IPOB leader, through his team of lawyers l...

BIAFRA NEWS : Nigeria's separatist protests are reminders of Biafran war

  ENUGU, Nigeria — Slowly picking clean the beans he is trying to sell, Evaristus Nduka sadly surveys the nearly empty marketplace in Enugu, in southeastern Nigeria. Mondays are no longer “for business because there is a lockdown,” Nduka says, referring to widespread weekly protests that have closed considerable commercial activity in the region. A separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, has ordered residents to stay at home every Monday as they continue their call for Nigeria’s southeast to become an independent country. For at least eight months the group and its members have imposed the sit-at-home which is also to press for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, their leader being prosecuted for charges of treason and terrorism. “It has crippled the whole of Mondays,” said Nduka of the protest. Many residents who have dared to go out on Mondays have been attacked and dozens have been killed, as reported over the months by the local media though authorities have ...