BIAFRA NEWS : Nnamdi Kanu calls for prayer to avert too many deaths in Igboland

 

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has expressed pain over the deaths of Ohanaeze President-General, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, former Minister Ogbonnaya Onu, Senator Ifeanyi Uba, and Onyeka Onwenu.

Kanu called for prayers to avert too many deaths in Igbo land.

The IPOB leader also cautioned against speaking ill about Iwuanyanwu, Onu, Uba, and Onwenu because it’s against Igbo tradition.Kanu disclosed this during his routine meeting with his legal team at the Department of State Services facility in Abuja.

Making Kanu’s remark public, his lead counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, said: “Today, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu directed me to convey his heartfelt sympathies to the families of Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, Senator Ifeanyi Uba and Dame Onyeka Onwenu.

“MNK is pained at their demise and as he mourns, he sends his comfort to Ndigbo and requests that none should speak ill of the departed, as such is repugnant to Igbo traditions.

“He sees these deaths to be too many in so short a time and calls for prayers to avert too many deaths from the land.

“Onyeka Onwenu in particular was very close to Onyendu, who found her private advice to be invaluable. MNK recalls that Onyeka was a firm believer in freedom and that she lived a fulfilled life that guaranteed her eternal rest in heaven.”

BIAFRA NEWS : What my father taught me about Biafra and my heritage

 

Biafra is a dream that haunts me – it was a dream that was on the cusp of being realised and yet failed so painfully,’ recalls Ije Ajibade, telling the story of injustice that has shaped her life

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M y  earliest memories of Biafra are the same as my earliest memories of my father. I can remember sitting next to him on a bed and I touched his arm. He turned to me and he said: “Can’t you see your father is crying.” It was many years later that I realised he was crying because of Biafra. That was 50 years ago today. I didn’t see my father cry again. He was mourning the loss of the Biafra dream.

For me and for many of the diaspora, Biafra is a presence that haunts us. It is a part of our history that is not spoken about and yet we try to make sense of it by reading, watching plays and attending lectures. All of this in an attempt to understand this dream that was on the cusp of being realised and yet failed so painfully.

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I was two when the war began and four when it ended. This was a civil war in Nigeria fought between the Nigerian government and the eastern region of Nigeria. Predominantly the home of the Igbo people, the eastern region – in response to violence and massacres, as well as political, economic, cultural and religious tensions – declared itself the State of Biafra on 30 May 1967 and seceded from Nigeria. 

 Nigeria was a creation of the British in 1914. It was established for colonial administrative convenience. It merged three separate cultures into one. To the north were the Fulani and Hausa-speaking people, often nomadic, principally of the Muslim faith. To the west of the River Niger were the Yoruba, largely farmers living under a rigid monarchical system and Christian. To the east were the predominantly Igbo-speaking people, also Christian, but with a strain of Judaism and more republican in their outlook. Nigeria is not (and never has been) a cohesive whole. However, in 1960, Nigeria was granted independence. Violence and coups ensued. 

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 In response to Biafra’s secession, the Nigerian government, backed by the former colonial master, countered with a brutal war. Millions of Biafrans died, most as a result of the deliberate government policy of starvation. From July 1967 to January 1970, Biafrans fought to free themselves from Nigerian oppression and from the lingering vestiges of poisonous colonialism. Biafra was starved into submission. Biafra was, and still is, a powerful vision of freedom and self-determination.

I have a deep and abiding rootedness in Biafra and the UK. My father studied at the LSE in the early 1960s and his first job as an academic was in England. I was born in the UK and brought up in two different cultures. To me, Biafra is a dream and a shadow. It is a dream of my father. I remember bouncing into the kitchen aged nine or 10 (we were living in Norwich at the time) and informing my mother that I was Biafran because Dad said so, and she told me (quite rightly) that Biafra does not exist. I ignored her. This was 1975, five years after the war had ended but my father still dreamed. He was Biafran and so were we. At least once a week we had to eat fufu, a traditional Biafran meal. As far as my father was concerned, fufu, like our Biafran identity, was both compulsory and necessary and he made sure that we knew this. My sisters and me would hanker after fish and chips! 

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My father died 17 years ago. We flew his body home to be buried. It went without saying that he needed to be laid to rest in the place that was truly home for him. My father’s tie to the home country was a tie to the dream of Biafra. He never stopped believing in Biafra. It was a passion and a dream that consumed him. His passion for Biafra shaped the way my two sisters and I were brought up. His passion for Biafra lingers in my life and has influenced the way I interact with the world and the way in which I struggle and thirst for justice.

 But Biafra is also a shadow. Not just for me, but for many people. It is the shadow of our past in Nigeria as a nation, whether we acknowledge it or not. The shadow of Biafra exists in the memories of the war and the many stories that are told about it behind closed doors. The shadows and dreams of Biafra are invisible but still very profound. 

Dad brought us up to believe in Biafra. He was always deeply passionate about Biafra and our home town of Mbaise. When I was 12, we moved to Nigeria from the UK. Dad wanted us to attend school in Nigeria. We lived in a small town called Idah on the eastern bank of the River Niger in the middle belt region of Nigeria. 

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My father had unwritten rules. We were not allowed to study in the north. We were not allowed to marry anybody from the north and he gave us strict instructions to marry from Mbaise in the southeast of Nigeria. Needless to say, that was the one time I disobeyed him because I eventually married a Yoruban man from the west of Nigeria.

 The furthest we ever got to the north was a town called Jos and I think we drove through Abuja once. As far as my father was concerned, northern Nigeria was a no-go area. He was living in the shadow of Biafra and when we think about the way so many Biafrans were killed in the north before the war and what is happening today with Boko Haram, I can understand why he felt so strongly about this. 

Some years after his death I remember rebuking a cousin of mine when I heard that she had moved to northern Nigeria. That fear and the shadow were very much alive for me even though I was living in London. These shadows became part of our day-to-day lives, affecting our choices and decisions.

As an adult I can see more deeply how the dream of Biafra has shaped who I am. I am a priest, but I am also a community activist. My thirst for justice and the need for a better world was nurtured by my father and his dream of Biafra. 

 During the war, my father was away campaigning and trying to raise money for an organisation called The Friends of Biafra. His dream was so powerful and the needs of Biafra so urgent that he simply had to leave his family at this crucial time and respond. My youngest sister was born then, but Biafra had to come first.

 His thirst for justice and his activism shaped my own thirst for these things. At eight, I was raising money to buy presents for elderly people in a nearby home. At 10 I was joining sponsored sleep outs for Amnesty International. At 12 I was writing about Steve Biko. The dream of my father continues to shape and influence me in my contemporary social justice activities. 

Biafra is part of who I am. It is part of my family heritage. I remember the stories about the war where my relatives fled from town to town to avoid the approaching Nigerian soldiers. I remember the stories of what they did to survive.

I had a cousin who went by the name of Surpriser. His real name was Goddy and he fought in the Biafran army. During the war he hid the family’s valuables and property by digging a deep hole somewhere on family land. After the war he recovered everything and from that time onwards he was known as “Surpriser”.

As a teenager, I always thought he was rather odd and often under the influence of something but I think the fighting affected him in more ways than we ever fully understood. I wish he was still alive so that I could speak to him and ask him what happened. As an adult as I look back over my life I can see how Biafra has shaped my life in both dreams and shadows. And I know that many of us in the Biafran diaspora have similar stories and experiences.

It is now 50 years after the end of the war and I think it is right for us to remember, because in doing so we honour our ancestors. We honour those who died during the war often from starvation, and we honour those who fought for Biafra.

I think that there is still the need for answers and dialogue about the war. I think it is a shame that Nigeria has never seen the need to have such dialogue or some kind of public acknowledgement or remembrance of the war. These dreams and shadows will never disappear. They need to be embraced and they need to be acknowledged because these dreams and shadows abound today.

The people waving the Biafran flag today in protest are mostly people who were young children during the war and some were not even born at that time. They wave the Biafran flag because the dreams and shadows of Biafra are as strong today as they were when my father had them. These dreams and shadows affect Nigeria today; the shadows will never disappear and the dreams will never die. The Nigerian government needs to realise that silence is not an answer to the truth. 

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There is a passage in the Bible where God asks Cain “Where is your brother Abel?” Cain tries to rebuff God, but God says: “Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.” The blood that was shed for Biafra is perhaps part of the reason why these dreams and shadows still exist. It is important for us to remember Biafra but it is also important for Nigeria to remember Biafra and for the United Kingdom to remember the part it played in the cruel devastation of the Biafran people.

As for me and people like me, we will continue to remember, especially through stories and plays, films and drama, dialogue and reflection and through the activism for Biafra that still continues today. Let us continue to remember. Let us continue to dream. Igbo Kwenu! Biafra Kwenu!

The Reverend Ijeoma Ajibade is a Church of England priest, ministering at Southwark Cathedral and St Philip’s, Earl’s Court

Read about the inhumane tactics of the Biafran war, which ended 50 years ago today, here

BIAFRA NEWS : Emefiele, Kanu arrested arbitrarily as pre-trial detention persists in Nigeria – US Govt

 

The United States Government has said that Godwin Emefiele, the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra were examples of individuals arrested arbitrarily by security personnel. 

The U.S noted that lengthy pre-trial detention has remained a problem, denying detainees access to a court and frustrating the country’s judicial system.

The U.S. Department of State disclosed this in its ‘2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nigeria,’ published on its website on Tuesday.

It said that in the prosecution of corruption cases, law enforcement and intelligence agencies did not always follow due process, leading to the arrest of suspects without appropriate arrest and search warrants. 

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According to the report, the Department of State Services (DSS) detained the suspended CBN governor “for investigative reasons” on June 10 after which a Federal High Court in Lagos, on July 25, granted him bail and ordered he be held at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre until the bail was made.

“However, the DSS immediately attempted to arrest Emefiele again, and a fight reportedly broke out between DSS agents and Nigerian Correctional Service officers as each group tried to take Emefiele into custody,” the report stated.

Meanwhile, the former CBN governor was released on bail on November 8 before he was later charged with corru

However, in 2022, an appeal court in Abuja dropped all charges against Kanu and ordered his release, which the federal government appealed.

“On December 15, the Supreme Court overturned the appeals court ruling and stated Kanu faced terrorism charges, even though Nigeria’s secret police had violated Kanu’s rights during his arrest and extradition. Kanu remained incarcerated at year’s end,” the US said.

The report stated that a shortage of trial judges, trial backlogs, endemic corruption, bureaucratic inertia, and undue political influence hampered the judicial system.

“Some detainees had their cases delayed because the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigerian Correctional Service did not have vehicles to transport them to court.

“Some individuals remained in detention because authorities lost their case files. In general, the courts were plagued with inadequate, antiquated systems and procedures,” the US said

Similarly, the report noted that the DSS continued to detain Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, a government-designated terrorist organisation on national security grounds. 

Kanu was charged on several counts including treason, terrorism, and illegal possession of firearms.

“In 2017, Kanu fled abroad after skipping bail, but was arrested and returned to the country in 2021,” the report stated.

 

Israeli : Israeli strike behind impact at Houthi weapons terminal in Yemen's capital — report

 

Saudi outlet says rockets target accuracy rockets, drones in Sana'a; Iran-upheld bunch denies guarantee, says blast happened at service station
An Israeli strike was behind a blast at an arms stop in Yemen's capital Sana'a, constrained by the Iran-supported Houthi rebels, Saudi media detailed Friday.

Rockets designated the site Thursday, where robots and accuracy rockets are put away, the Saudi-possessed Al-Hadath news network detailed. The Israel Safeguard Powers have not remarked regarding this situation.

Houthi authorities denied the report, guaranteeing that the impact happened at a service station, while Hezam al-Asad, an individual from the Iran-upheld Houthi's political department, tweeted that it was brought about by remainders of a bomb left over from the nationwide conflict.
Al-Asad infrequently posts Hebrew-language insults at Israel.

The Houthis, who control a lot of Yemen and are essential for an "hub of opposition" exhibited against Israel, have sent off a progression of robot and rocket strikes focusing on Israel since huge number of Hamas fear mongers emptied over the line into Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 individuals, generally regular folks, and grabbing exactly 240.
Houthis additionally held onto an Israeli-connected freight vessel, the Universe Chief, in the Red Ocean on November 19, and have promised to target others.

On Thursday, the Unified Realm said it was sending quite possibly of its most exceptional maritime boat, the HMS Jewel, a Sort 45 destroyer, to direct tasks to guarantee opportunity of route, console vendor vessels, and guarantee the protected progression of exchange the region.

The vessel will join the frigate HMS Lancaster which conveyed to the district last year, as well as three mine trackers and a help transport.

The US has likewise reinforced its maritime presence in the Center East, conveying two transporter gatherings to the area.

On Wednesday, a US Naval force warship killed a robot over the South Red Ocean sent off from a piece of Yemen constrained by Houthis, the American military's Headquarters said.

The US Naval force brought down different robots sent off from Yemen on November 23, one robot on November 15, and the two rockets and robots on October 19, while the Houthis destroyed an American robot recently.

Israeli : Israel resumes Gaza besieging after ceasefire lapses

 

Many Palestinians killed since Israel continued assaults on Gaza after termination of ceasefire, as per wellbeing authorities.
    Israeli armed force drops flyers telling individuals in pieces of currently assaulted and thickly populated southern Gaza to clear to local regions, flagging a growing hostile.
    Arbiter Qatar expresses endeavors to reestablish the slipped by ceasefire are proceeding.
    In excess of 15,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7. In Israel, the authority loss of life remains at around 1,200.

Yet again in a meeting with Al Jazeera, Gaza Service of Wellbeing representative Ashraf al-Qudra has sounded the caution over the unsafe circumstances injured and wiped out Palestinians face in the midst of the Israeli bombardement.

Here are his interpreted remarks:

    During the détente period, we attempted to build the clinics limit.
    Israeli assaults don't give a chance to clear and treat the injured.
    The philanthropic and clinical guide that has shown up is extremely restricted contrasted with the necessities of the area.

The Lebanese gathering says it designated Israeli officers "with fitting weapons" near a tactical situation along the boondocks with Israel.

The declaration denoted the principal assault asserted by Hezbollah since the slip by of the ceasefire recently. There was no quick remark by Israel.

Hezbollah and Israel had generally regarded an undeclared interruption along the boundary during the previous week. The gathering has said the Lebanon-Israel boundary would stay a functioning bleeding edge for however long Israel's hostility against Gaza proceeds.

Disputable Money Pastor Bezalel Smotrich says he met the top state leader and approached him to "cut off" all discussions with Hamas and ceasefire mediators.

In a progression of tweets on X, the extreme right lawmaker invited "the arrival of the delivered prisoners" yet said "the possibility of a détente has run its course".

"Consenting to additional end [in fighting] would be a horrendous mix-up that main conveys shortcoming… We should cut off all binds and discussions with Hamas and the middle people and take a gander at the foe just through seeing a firearm," Smotrich added.

Montaser al-Sawaf, a cameraperson for Anadolu in the Gaza Strip, was killed in an Israeli air strike, the news organization has revealed.

There was no prompt remark by the Israeli armed force.

The Gaza government media office said his killing brought the complete number of writers killed by Israeli assaults since October to something like 72.

In its latest update, the Board of trustees to Safeguard Writers has put the quantity of columnists and media laborers affirmed dead to 57.

In the southern Gaza Strip city, overreacted Palestinians are attempting to carry out individuals from the rubble with their exposed hands after restored Israeli air strikes hit a home and obliterated contiguous structures.

"Not many of the salvage groups that are as yet accessible in the southern Gaza Strip have shown up around here to assist," Al Jazeera's Youmna ElSayed announced from the scene.

She noticed that the common guard and salvage groups "don't for a moment even have the required hardware or instruments to attempt to save those individuals stuck under the rubble".

Ibrahim Hamdan, an inhabitant of Khan Younis, said he was home when he unexpectedly heard the sound of bombs hitting his neighbor's home.

"We ran out and saw the whole block obliterated. More than 10 homes were harmed by Israel's bombings. Families figured out how to safeguard a few youngsters. We really want to believe that they will get by."

In a meeting with Al Jazeera, the Brazilian president blames his US partner's detachment towards the "destruction" in Gaza in spite of Washington's impact on Israel.

The strikes, which have killed somewhere around 109 individuals and injured hundreds, started as the ceasefire terminated at 7am neighborhood time (05:00 GMT).

In an explanation, the military said that its ground, air and maritime powers struck focuses in both the north and south of the Gaza Strip, remembering for the southern urban communities of Khan Younis and Rafah.

The White House says it will keep on squeezing to expand the ceasefire understanding among Israel and Hamas after extreme battling emitted toward the beginning of today following the arrangement's lapse.

"We keep on working with Israel, Egypt and Qatar on endeavors to expand the helpful respite in Gaza," a Public safety Gathering representative said.

Prior, a representative for Iran's Unfamiliar Service said the recharged battling in Gaza was "under the proceeded with help" of the US government.

Resul Serdar says "two variables" are at play in regards to the US's influence on Israel to broaden the ceasefire bargain.

Serdar made sense of that US President Joe Biden's organization is confronting developing homegrown tension in discretionary swing states where there is a lot of Muslim and Bedouin citizens that could influence his re-appointment bid one year from now.

In Israel, in any case, the public authority is confronting its own arrangement of difficulties.

State leader Benjamin Netanyahu has wouldn't acknowledge liability regarding neglecting to forestall the October 7 assaults, excusing inquiries on whether he wanted to leave.

Serdar expressed that with the public authority battling for its own political endurance, "the main country that can come down on Israel and stop the conflict is the US".

The quantity of individuals killed in Israeli assaults since the lapse of the ceasefire has now reached 109, as per Gaza's Service of Wellbeing.

Many individuals have additionally been injured.

The Israeli armed force continued its siege of Gaza earlier today, focusing on neighborhoods and exile camps an across the thickly populated area.

Writer Hossam Shabbat has shared a video showing a school shielding uprooted individuals in the Jabalia exile camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, being canvassed in smoke after the terminating of smoke canisters.

Air assault alarms sound in northern Israel interestingly since the ceasefire finished, as per Israeli public news sources.

Alarms have been heard in the settlements of Shear Yashuv, HaGoshrim, Dafna and Beit Hillel - found near the line with Lebanon.

The quantity of individuals killed in Israeli assaults on the Gaza Strip since toward the beginning of today has now ascended to something like 100, clinical sources told Al Jazeera.

It has been right around two months since Najlaa Dmaidi's oldest child, 19-year-old Labib, was shot dead by Israeli pilgrims.

The evening of October 5 - and into the early long stretches of October 6 - many Israeli pilgrims went after the Dmaidi home, which is arranged on the Huwara street - the principal corridor running from the north toward the south utilized by the two Palestinians and pioneers.

The assault came hours after a Palestinian completed a hit and run assault in the town, causing no wounds.

"The pioneers were accumulated before our structure and expert sharpshooters remaining on housetops were taking shots at individuals," Najlaa made sense of, adding that the "military was with" the pilgrims and that they were shooting nerve gas into their home.

Gaza wellbeing service calls for opening of Rafah crossing

Ashraf al-Qudra, representative for the Service of Wellbeing in Gaza, has engaged "each living soul" to permit the kickoff of the Rafah crossing in the midst of an "very devastating" compassionate emergency.

"The clinical guide that entered Gaza during the ceasefire is just enough for one day," al-Qudra said in a proclamation. "The wellbeing area in Gaza is unavailable in a literal sense," he said.

There are just three medical clinics working in Gaza which are not prepared to get countless patients, he added.

His remark came after Israeli air assaults continued following a delicate seven-day ceasefire, killing no less than 70 individuals in a couple of hours. Doctors are battling to help patients who are heaping onto emergency clinic floors in the midst of a deficiency of beds.

Jordan's Above all else Abdullah II says the conflict in Gaza is exacerbating environment in the area.

The ruler told the UN's COP28 environment talks in Dubai that "we can't discuss environmental change in segregation from the philanthropic misfortunes unfurling around us".

"In Gaza, more than 1.7 million Palestinians have been dislodged from their homes. Many thousands have been harmed or killed in a district currently on the forefronts of environmental change," he told a social occasion of world pioneers.

"The monstrous obliteration of war conveys the ecological intimidations of water shortage and food frailty significantly more extreme."

This evening will be pivotal. Arbitrators need to think of something positive.

You can't stand to have a second day of battling in light of the fact that there may be a tipping point where out of nowhere you will not have any control of this entire circumstance.

This is the kind of thing the Qataris comprehend. There's been an energy they've been building, and they were wanting to gain by that energy to persuade the Americans, specifically, to come down on Israel for this truce to hold.

Assuming it proceeds, and on the off chance that the heightening go on for one more day, it will be very challenging to get back to the starting point.

No guide crossing into Gaza in the midst of Israeli air assaults

A representative for the Rafah line crossing says the entry of trucks conveying genuinely necessary guide, fuel and cooking gas from Egypt into the Gaza Strip has halted due to the resumption of the Israeli barrage.

The amount of help conveyed through the Rafah crossing had expanded during the drawn out ceasefire, however help authorities said it was still undeniably not as much as what was required.

Rafah has been the main section point for helpful alleviation bound for Gaza. Restricted conveyances began on October 21, fourteen days after the beginning of the conflict.

Five Israeli warriors injured in mortar assault, armed force says

The Israeli armed force says five individuals from the security powers have been injured because of a mortar strike around the southern local area of Nirim.

Three have been "respectably" harmed, while two others supported gentle wounds in the assault, as per the Israeli armed force radio.
Ashraf al-Qudra, a representative for the Service of Wellbeing in Gaza, says surgeons are bargain

BIAFRA NEWS : Biafra Nations League wants AG to withdraw appeal against release of Nnamdi Kanu

 

The Biafra Nations League (BnL) has called on the Attorney General of Nigeria, Abubakar Malami to withdraw the appeal against the judgment of the Federal High Court ordering the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the agitation for Biafra’s sovereignty.

They made the call in a statement released on Saturday morning and signed by the deputy

Deputy Leader of BnL, Ebuta Takon.

They warned the federal government against the continuous detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

This is coming weeks after a militant group suspected to be BnL affiliate attacked and abducted three oil workers in the Bakassi Peninsula.

They warned that the government should no longer undermine their influence in the Gulf of Guinea, claiming that they have large loyalists in the region.

BIAFRA NEWS : Igbos inaugurate Biafra House in US, give reasons

 

Igbos residing in the United States, US, have inaugurated the Biafra House in Oxon Hill in Maryland, Washington DC.

DAILY POST gathered that the Biafra House was inaugurated to serve people who believe in Biafra and friends of the nation.

This was authoritatively disclosed to DAILY POST by a source.

The source, who pleaded anonymity, said: “The Biafra House is officially opened for business to the public, including Government Administrative Matters, Diplomatic Protocol, International Relations, and Security, amongst others.”

The Biafra House was formed to help Igbos in the US and Diaspora interact with the international community.

According to the source: “The Biafra House will be interacting and providing services to local, as well as governments and the International community through partnerships, pending when the United Nations and other world bodies may compel the government of Nigeria to effect a plebiscite for Biafran people.

 

“Biafra House is where Biafrans in the United States and the World can seek Diplomatic and Consular services, as it’s open for five business days a week and within the New York time zone.”

“Again, The Biafra House will be interacting and providing services to local, as well as governments and the International community through partnerships, pending when the United Nations and other world bodies may compel the Fulani government of Nigeria to effect a plebiscite for Biafran people.”

BIAFRA NEWS : Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer gives three reasons court suspended IPOB leader’s trial

 

Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has reacted to the decision of the Federal High Court in Abuja to suspend the further trial of its client.

Ejimakor explained that it was impossible for Justice Binta Nyako-led court to continue with Kanu’s trial.

Justice Nyako put off Kanu’s trial sine die due to the pending resolution of the Federal Government’s appeal against the October 13 judgment of the Court of Appeal that discharged him from the terrorism charges.

The Federal Government’s appeal seeking a reversal of the Court of Appeal judgment is pending before the Supreme Court.

Reacting, Ejimakor said the Court of Appeal judgment and that of the Federal High Court in Umuahia made it impossible for Nyako to continue with Kanu’s trial.

In a chat with DAILY POST, the Special Counsel said the pending appeal before the Supreme Court was a barrier to the continuation of the trial.

“My reaction to today’s Federal High Court, Abuja ruling declining further trial of Nnamdi Kanu:

“The ruling today by Justice Binta of Federal High Court Abuja was not unexpected.

“There is absolutely no way she can proceed with the trial of Nnamdi Kanu in view of the jurisdictional barriers created by the judgments of the Court of Appeal and that of the Federal High Court, Umuahia.

“To cap it all, the matter is also pending before the Supreme Court on appeal. No trial court can proceed with any trial that is burdened by these triple factors,” he said.

BIAFRA NEWS : NIGERIA FG resumes Nnamdi Kanu’s trial on terrorism charges November 14

 

The Federal Government will on Monday, November 14 resume the trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu on terrorism charges brought against him.

The trial will centre only on seven out of 15 count charges sustained against Kanu by Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja.

A member of Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyers, Mr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, confirmed that the trial would commence on November 14 having received notice from the court to the effect.

However, DAILY POST gathered that the trial would be vehemently opposed by the leader of the legal team, Chief Mike Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN.

Our correspondent was reliably informed that a motion on notice objecting to the commencement of the trial has already been filed and would take the front stage at the November 14 proceedings.

DAILY POST observed that the objection to the trial was predicated on two grounds which were the judgment of the Court of Appeal delivered in October which voided the rendition of Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria and subsequently quashed the terrorism charges and discharged him from the alleged offences.

 

 

The second ground was the appeal against the Court of Appeal decision brought to the Supreme Court by the Federal Government.

Our correspondent noted in the sighted motion on notice that Ozekhome SAN sought for suspension of the trial pending the outcome of the Supreme Court on the issue.

Justice Nyako would however be expected to give ruling one way or the other after taking arguments for and against the motion.

Meanwhile, security arrangements have been put in place to ensure hitch-free proceedings in the courtroom and outside the court premises.

BIAFRA NEWS : ‘Biafra realisation is next’ – IPOB reacts as court acquits, discharges Nnamdi Kanu

 

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has reacted to the Court of Appeal ruling that discharged and acquitted its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

DAILY POST reports that the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal in a unanimous verdict on Thursday acquitted Kanu of all terrorism charges against him and thereby discharged him.

Reacting, IPOB said the ruling has shown that some judges are good and they know the law.

In a chat with DAILY POST, IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, said the judges know that Kanu did not commit the crime.

According to Powerful: “We are happy to hear that our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been acquitted and discharged. That is to show that some judges are good and know the law and understand that Nnamdi Kanu did not commit crimes and his extraordinary rendition was very illegal.

“Biafrans both home and abroad including our friends should rejoice because Almighty Chukwu Okike Abiama has done it again. Biafra realisation is the next target and nothing will stop IPOB from achieving Biafra freedom.

“If you know you are criminal terrorising our people just run because you are going to meet your Waterloo.”

BIAFRA NEWS : Rail lines removal won’t stop Biafra freedom – IPOB

 

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has condemned purported removal of existing, though obsolete rail lines in Southeast, attributing it to handiwork of Federal Government.

The group alleged that the removal is not unconnected to the federal government’s hatred against Ndigbo.

In a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, IPOB said the move would not hinder its efforts towards realization of Biafra Republic.

The seperatist group further noted that it was not afraid of the steps, promising its members of its soon laying of its own railways in the region that would link it with Ambazonia and other African Countries.

The statement reads in part: “We condem the continued removal of existing though obsolete rail lines in Biafraland particularly in Igbo territory.

“The rail lines in Igboland were built by their colonial masters who saw the need for Igboland to be connected by railroads because we were one of the most civilized nations around, and also an industrial hub then as well as now.

“Nigeria Government is removing these railtracks claiming they are using it to repay Eastern States China government loans. We ask them, when did Eastern states borrow money from China?

“IPOB is not afraid nor shaking and promises every Biafran that very soon we will start laying our own railways in Biafraland that will link us with Ambazonia and other African Countries.

“IPOB assures our people that when Biafra comes, modern and electric speed train tracks that will operate both underground and above ground will be constructed.

“The government of Nigeria refused to lay new railway lines into Igboland but were busy laying rail lines from Katsina to Niger Republic with resources gotten from Biafra Land. Whatever inferior, substandard, and shoddy railroads they are building now is nothing compared to what we shall build in the immediate future.

“All African countries will emulate the massive infrastructural development that will happen within the first five years of Biafra Independence. IPOB is determined and will not be perturbed by any wickedness being mated on us because it is only for a short time longer now.

“Even if this Government didn’t remove the obsolete railroads, we will remove and replace them with railroads that will support modern speed trains as soon as Biafra is restored.”

 

BIAFRA NEWS : Court adjourns CNG suit on referendum to January 27

 

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, adjourned hearing on the suit filed by the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) seeking a referendum to determine the fate of Biafra and other self-determination agitations to January 27, 2023.

It would be recalled that the CNG had in June 2021 dragged the National Assembly and the Attorney-General of the Federation to Court, asking it to compel the defendants to halt the ongoing constitutional review exercise and in its place, conduct a referendum to determine what determines Nigeria and who populates it.

Justice Inyang Ekwo, who presided over the matter, granted all the motions to allow interested parties to be joined in the suit.

Counsel to CNG, Barrister Sufiyanu Gambo, while speaking with journalists after the adjournment, said the Court had adjourned to 27 January for taking all the application to enable us have the processes and then respond appropriately.

Gambo said: “We amended all our processes directed by the court and as order parties are equally joined for defendant which is senate, National Assembly and Attorney General, so about 16 parties were added and then between last hearing and today.

“There are a lot of people who have filed the application to joined and we are unable to certain some of them because we only see them in court introducing their application to have filed to joined and because we don’t have the processes”.

In his reaction, the spokesperson of CNG, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, lamented that the suit had suffered too many adjustments with few months.

His words: “We feel the suit has suffered too many adjustments. It’s been dragging for about a year now without commencing hearing. But the delays are about process. The suit is developing into an interesting national issue and we’re confident the result would put all agitations to rest.

 

“We’re assured by the requests coming by parties seeking to be joined as defendants in the case. This testifies to the fact that after all, we at CNG have taken the necessary decision by taking this legal option for the resolution of the lingering crisis of trust that appears to be overwhelming all other previous options.

“We’re are also confident that in the end the court, a temple of justice, would dispense justice appropriately in the interest of the future of Nigeria”.

However, the Ibom nation people movement counsel, Barrister Adesina Oke, who applied to join the application, disclosed that the Ibom nation agitators were also interested in self-determination.

He said: “It important people should express themselves that is why is very very imperative for us to join this suite because the court move that you can’t prevent people from matter that is interested to them. We want to be identified on our own, we are different culture and we different people”.

In his remarks, the lead counsel for the Igbo Nation, Victor Onweremadu, said: “When this suite was instituted, I was purely against it from the beginning, the plaintiff asked the five Eastern States to exist from this country that is the genesis of this suit.

“You can see that is creating a wild fire under the ethnicity across the country and they are now applying to be join the suite, in the last adjournment Igbo filed application to join on the suite and we are properly joined.

“One important lesson we should learned from this is that, Nigeria is living on the keg of powder, because many Nigerians are not happy that is why they don’t believe in one Nigeria”.

BIAFRA NEWS : Sunday Igboho, Prof Akintoye, enemy of Nnamdi Kanu, Biafra struggle – IPOB

 

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has described the Leader of the Ilana Omo Oodua, a group championing self-determination for the Yoruba Nation, Professor Banji Akintoye, as an enemy of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

IPOB said Akintoye’s remark that Kanu was a noisemaker was an indication of his hatred for the Biafra agitator.

Akintoye had described the IPOB’s leader as a noisemaker while applauding the Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho.

The Professor, had, also denied working with the Biafra nation agitator, Nnamdi Kanu

Reacting, the spokesman of IPOB, Emma Powerful, accused Akintoye of working with enemies of Biafra agitation against Kanu.

A statement by Powerful reads partly: “We the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the command and leadership of the great liberator and prophet, Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu KANU condemn the unguided statement from Prof. Akintoye during his BBC interview where he ignorantly referred to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as a noise maker while praising Sunday Igboho.

“It’s unfortunate that this old man, whom our Leader and IPOB hold in high esteem, will stoop so low to speak like a Nigeria-paid agent. Prof Akintoye should understand that KANU is the only man that put fear in the Fulanized Government of Nigeria. For him to refer to our Leader as a noise maker shows the level of hatred he has for our Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. If Prof. Akintoye’s boy, Sunday Igboho, and Yoruba agitators are making noise, Nnamdi KANU and IPOB are not. We are in serious business in our quest for the restoration of Biafra.

“The old Professor with Nigeria divide and rule mentally has been working with enemies of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to discredit IPOB’s movement. Paid agent, Akintoye worked with Tony Nnadi on their irrelevant Lower Niger Republic or Congress project or whatever name they called it and woefully failed. Today he has started working with Simon Ekperima and boosting his ego to frustrate IPOB and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. They don’t understand that we are resolute and have dismantled all past enemies and obstacles that have stood in our way. We will overcome and dismantle them too, shortly.

“It is all a part of the Fulanized Nigeria government’s plans to find people who will make noise about Biafra while their target is to harm our Leader, Mazi Nnamdi KANU. None of them is looking for freedom but want to hoodwink the public while planning on how to harm IPOB and Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu KANU. We assure them and their sponsors that they will fail again and again.

“We also wish to remind Koiki Media to keep to their lane in their Oduduwa struggle. As much as we support Oduduwa’s struggle by using our social media platforms to promote them, we do not in any way claim an alliance with them. They should not start any media wars with IPOB, otherwise, our media warriors will take them out of the media space. IPOB freedom movement led by Kanu is a freedom struggle for all the oppressed people in Nigeria but we will not tolerate any form of sabotage from those same people.

“Moreso, we want to state again that IPOB, led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has nothing to do with the so-called Biafra government in Exile. IPOB has never authorized anybody to form Biafra Government in Exile while our Leader is in DSS detention. We have said before, and we wish to say it categorically again, that anybody forming government in Exile is a criminal and any day we catch him or her, their name will be sorry. Sponsors and initiators of Government in Exile are power-drunk people who want to displace Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and destroy the Biafra movement and our struggle for independence. We won’t allow such to happen because we are the last line of defence against the enemies of the Indigenous Peoples in Africa.”

BIAFRA NEWS : NPC begs Biafra agitators not to disrupt 2023 census in S-East

 

The National Population Commission, NPC, has pleaded with the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and other pro- Biafra groups not to disrupt the 2023 population census in the South East region as  was the case in the 2006 census when the then Movement for the Actualisation for the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, scuttled the exercise in the zone.

NPC Federal Commissioner in charge of Abia State, Chief Jonny Nwabuisi, who made the plea at a press conference yesterday in Umuahia, decried the adverse effect of the MASSOB opposition to census in South East which accounted for the low figures ascribed to states in the zone.

He noted that a successful population census would be in the interest of everybody including those pushing for referendum, arguing that referendum  must be based on population.

His words:”In 2006, it was MASSOB; today it’s IPOB. But I say that it’s in the interest of IPOB to allow the census. If they  talk of referendum ,they cannot do it in a vacuum.

 ” Referendum is based on population and IPOB has no population of its own that is recognized by any international body that can conduct referendum. They only rely on the population of Nigeria.

 “So, it’s imperative and necessary for IPOB members to help in propagating the advocacy on census so  that the South East will have a successful census. Otherwise, whatever thing they are doing will be a failure.”

Identify Number, NIN would be accepted.

The NPC boss who hinted that the 2023 census would be conducted in the month of April, said that measures had been put in place for a credible exercise.

Asked if the exercise could be successfully held in an election year, the NPC boss assured that it would be a huge success.

On the method of enumeration during the exercise, Nwabuisi said only persons sighted physically would be enumerated, adding that no person (s) would be captured by proxy.

Responding to a question, the NPC boss, however, ruled out the option of electronic capturing during the exercise.

He said that the enumerators would feed the data they collect from the people into the commission’s data bank.

 

BIAFRA NEWS : Why we won’t release Kanu, FG tells Appeal Court

 

The Federal Government yesterday adduced reasons it has not obeyed the judgement of the Court of Appeal that ordered the release of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, from detention.

Government in a fresh affidavit filed before the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, maintained that Kanu posed a flight risk, insisting he would escape from the country as soon as he was freed from detention.

The affidavit was attached in support of an application seeking to stay the execution of the appellate court verdict that quashed the entire 15-count terrorism charge the federal government preferred against the embattled IPOB leader.

Arguing the application yesterday, an Assistant State Counsel in the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. David Kaswe, told the court that the case against Kanu bordered on national security.

Kaswe argued that Kanu’s fundamental rights should not supercede the interest of the nation.

Relying on the decided case law in Federal Republic of Nigeria Vs Asari Dokubo, the federal government argued that once a case touched on national security, the right of the individual affected took secondary place.

“It is important to appreciate the gamut of depositions in our application. The Respondent is a flight risk person and one of the ground of our application is that this matter touches on national security of the state.

“We further rely on the case of FRN Vs Dokubo, where the Supreme Court held that where national security is threatened or when there is likelihood of it being threatened, human rights take secondary place.

“Once there is a threat to national security, human rights of any individual can be suspended until such threat is taken care of.

“Once security of the nation is in jeopardy, the individual right may not even exist,” government’s lawyer argued.

Besides, he told the court that intelligence report in government’s possession indicated that releasing the IPOB leader from detention would worsen the security situation in the South East.

“The defendant has shown that he has the capacity to jump bail or to escape from lawful custody. There is reasonable intelligence that the enforcement of judgement of this court, pending determination of our appeal at the Supreme Court, may impact negatively on the declining security in the South East.

“No court can close its eyes on activities happening around it. As we speak, the entire social media is awash with threat to security in the country.

“We believe that there is an exceptional circumstance to warrant this court to grant our application.

“We urge this court to resolve the sole issue we raised and find our application meritorious, in the interest of justice and unity of the country,” federal government’s lawyer added.

However, Kanu’s lawyer,  Mike Ozekhome, SAN, urged the appellate court to dismiss FG’s application which he said was tantamount to seeking the stay of the liberty of a citizen.

Ozekhome argued that contrary to FG’s position, Kanu’s release from detention would guarantee peace in both the South East and the country

He said:  “In fact, my lords, on the contrary, the release of Kanu will actually bring peace and tranquility to the South East in particular and the nation in general

“This was demonstrated after the judgement of this court that ordered the release of the Respondent. Immediately the judgement was delivered, there was so much joy and happiness in the entire South East.  There was so much jubilation and merriment.”

He argued that Dokubo’s case was different from that of Kanu.

According him, while Dokubo applied to be granted bail, pending the determination of the charge against him, in Kanu’s case, the appellate court had already terminated his trial and ordered his release.

Relying on the case of Olisa Metuh Vs FRN, Kanu’s lawyer argued that the law forbade the grant of stay of execution in a criminal case.

He told the court that the IPOB leader did not jump bail, stressing that he only escaped from the country to save his life, after soldiers illegally invaded his house in 2017, in an operation that led to the death of 28 persons.

Ozekhome argued that the federal government, being in contempt of the judgement of the appellate court, could not approach it to seek any favourable order.

“They are already in contempt of order of this court. This application is therefore nothing but a slap on the face of this court,” he said.

After the three-man panel of justices of the appellate court, led by Justice Haruna Tsanami, had listened to both sides, it reserved its ruling till a date to be communicated to the parties.

Meanwhile, six Igbo traditional rulers yesterday stormed the court to demand the release of the detained IPOB leader.

The monarchs, who were all dressed in their regallia, said they were in court to show solidarity to their son, even as they stayed and observed the proceedings till the end.

The traditional rulers that were in court included HRM Eze  Innocent Nwaigwe, Secretary Umuahia North Council of Traditional Rulers; HRM, Eze Nnamdi Ofoegbu, Chairman Ohuhu Council of Traditional Rulers; and HRM Eze Iheanyichukwu Ezigbo, Chairman Ibeku council. Others are HRM Eze Pastor Philip Ajomiwe, immediate past Chairman, Umuahia North Council; and HRM Eze Eddy Ibeabuchi, former Chairman Umuahia North Council and HRM Eze Ben Oriaku, Ikwuano LGA.

It will be recalled that the appellate court had in a judgement delivered on October 13, ordered Kanu’s release from detention, even as it terminated further proceedings on the case the federal government entered against him.

The court said it was satisfied that FG flagrantly violated all known laws when it forcibly rendered Kanu from Kenya to the country for continuation of his trial.

It held that such arbitrary use of power by the Nigerian government, divested the trial court of the jurisdiction to continue with Kanu’s trial.

Though FG had since gone to the Supreme Court to challenge the judgement, it, however, in line with the rules, it approached the Court of Appeal to seek a stay of execution of the verdict.

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BIAFRA NEWS : Again, Court Adjourns Biafra Referendum Suit To Jan 27

 

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, adjourned hearing on the suit filed by the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) seeking a referendum to determine the fate of Biafran and other self-determination agitators, to January 27, 2023.

Recall that, CNG had in June 2021 dragged the National Assembly and the Attorney-General of the Federation to Court, asking the defendants to halt the ongoing constitutional review exercise and in its place, conduct a referendum to determine what constitutes Nigeria and who populates it.

Justice Inyang Ekwo, who presided over the matter, granted all the motions to allow interested parties to be joined in the suit.

Counsel to CNG, Barrister Sufiyanu Gambo, while speaking with journalists after the adjournment, said the court had adjourned to 27 January for taking all the application to enable them have the processes and then respond appropriately.

In his reaction, the spokesperson of CNG, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, lamented that the suit had suffered too many adjustments within a few months.

 His words: “We feel the suit has suffered too many adjustments. It’s been dragging for about a year now without commencing hearing. But the delays are about process. The suit is developing into an interesting national issue and we’re confident the result would put all agitations to rest.

“We’re assured by the requests coming from parties seeking to be joined as defendants in the case. This testifies to the fact that after all, we at CNG have taken the necessary decision by taking this legal option for the resolution of the lingering crisis of trust that appears to be overwhelming all other previous options.However, the Ibom Nation People Movement counsel, Barrister Adesina Oke, who applied to join the application, disclosed that the Ibom nation agitators were also interested in self-determination.

 

 

“We’re are also confident that in the end the court, a temple of justice, would dispense justice appropriately in the interest of the future of Nigeria”.

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