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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Supportive of Biafra bunches back Nnamdi Kanu's dismissal of sit-at-home


 Heads of supportive of Biafra Gatherings in Enugu State have tossed their weight behind the call by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, head of Native Individuals of Biafra, IPOB, to end sit-at-home in the South-East   Tending to a world public interview in Enugu on Sunday, 

Companion Rita Eberechukwu Anigbogu, Chief General, De Biafra Mobilizers Drive and Representative Executive, True Legislature of Biafra, said: "we the star — Biafra gatherings of Enugu State extraction stand with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as we say, we by and large oddball the sit-at-home. Allow it to end now.  

Nobody turns into a legend in Igboland by killing his own sibling. This land we stroll on, our precursors, the divine forces of our property, and Ndigbo will consider dependable the individuals who tirelessly try to uphold a silly sit-at-home even after Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has proclaimed it hostile to Igbo interest."

   It very well may be reviewed that Kanu composed a letter which was perused by his legal counselor Aloy Ejimakor, coordinating oneself acclaimed Head of the state of Biafra, Simon Ekpa to stop his activities against South-East Lead representatives, as well as requested him to stop Monday's sit-at-home. 

  Friend Anigbogu, who was flanked Mazi Ikechukwu Oji-Establishing Secretary General, Eastern People groups Congress, EPC, Companion Osita Chukwuagbanarinam - Pioneer, Salvation Individuals, SP, Biafra, and Confidant Stella Chukwuma - Head of Schooling, De Mobilizers Drive said: "l am here to affirm that the letter unveiled by Counselor Aloy Ejimakor really radiated from Nnamdi Kanu.

 What's more, I do as such with each praiseworthy feeling and obligation and for the sake of Chukwu Okike Abiama.   "As the vast majority of you definitely know, I worked with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu for quite a while, for a long time. I left my organizations in Lagos and moved to Enugu to go along with him when he was running Radio Biafra from Enugu here.

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

BIAFRA NEWS , DSS at long last retires from as Nnamdi Kanu starts clinical treatment

 


Kanu, head of the Native Nation of Biafra, IPOB, has started the primary round of his free medicals.  This was as he communicated trust for the following round of medicals.

This was revealed by his Exceptional Direction, Aloy Ejimakor, after his standard visit to Kanu at the office of the Branch of State Administrations, DSS.  BEST SITE TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE

Ejimakor said Kanu was playful regardless of his continuous struggles.

Throughout recent months, Kanu's legal counselors have been unsettling for free clinical consideration for the IPOB.

At a certain point, Kanu's legitimate group blamed the DSS for keeping free specialists from taking care of the IPOB pioneer.

Nonetheless, Ejimajor tweeted: "Update: I have finished up the present appearance with Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Regardless of the relative multitude of struggles, he stays playful and his all the best for the dependable withstand."

Thursday, June 29, 2023

biafra news : Nnamdi Kanu victim of false imprisonment – IPOB lawyer

 


Aloy Ejimakor, the Special Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has described the Biafra agitator as a victim of false imprisonment by the state.

Ejimakor made the remark while stressing that Kanu was not under any charge before any court.

He noted that Kanu’s fate does not lie with the appeal before the Supreme court alone.

In a statement he signed, Ejimakor reiterated that Kanu’s release was not an act of mercy.

The statement reads partly: “To be sure, Nnamdi Kanu’s fate does not lie in this appeal alone because the appeal is but one of the several cases that were triggered – municipally and internationally – by the extraordinary rendition, and all the cases are independent, of equal stature and aimed at securing Nnamdi Kanu’s release.

“Therefore, the different moments in time when two of these several cases, in particular – the one initiated at the Federal High Court and the one initiated at the United Nations (both of which have concurrent jurisdiction over the rendition), were determined in favor of Nnamdi Kanu, the narrative that freeing him lies exclusively in the hands of the Supreme Court is fundamentally false. It is also malicious, prejudicial and profoundly injurious to Nnamdi Kanu’s legal interest, especially as it offers the authorities the umbrage and easy political cover to persist in the illegal detention of Nnamdi Kanu.

“Finally, it needs to be emphasized that for the obvious reason that Nnamdi Kanu is neither currently facing any trial, nor does he have any charges standing against him, his detention is – in reality – an imprisonment without conviction. In plain terms, he is a victim of false imprisonment by the State. A rough and tough imprisonment that is more horrendous when the locale is not a prison or a correctional institution but a hideous DSS cell, which is no different from a dank police cell or even worse in some ramifications.”

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

BIAFRA NEWS : Supreme Court must set Nnamdi Kanu free – IPOB

 


The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has expressed hope that the Supreme Court would set its leader, Nnamdi Kanu free.

IPOB made the remark while stressing that Kanu did not commit any offence.

The group urged its followers to be circumspective in their movement ahead of Kanu’s trial.

Emma Powerful, the spokesman of IPOB, lamented that the group’s enemies alerted security agents to attack its members.

A statement by Powerful reads partly: “It’s very important that we advise Biafrans, particularly those of us in the South East, to be circumspective in their movement these days as the case of Onyendu at the Supreme Court of Nigeria is coming up.

“It’s obvious that our enemies have already alerted their Security and Criminal Agents, who have started attacking people and security forces in the East to blackmail IPOB and ESN so as to pollute the minds of the Supreme Court Judges handling Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s case. We can assure all of them that their plans are dead on arrival.

“We, therefore, ask our people not to yield into the plans of our enemies but to remain calm, peaceful, and prayerful. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has not committed any crime known to local or international laws but is being held illegally in DSS solitary confinement because of ethnic profiling and prejudice. He must be set free by the Supreme Court of Nigeria.”

Friday, February 24, 2023

BIAFRA NEWS : Simon Ekpa released by Finnish Police after hours of questioning

 


A popular pro-Biafra separatist agitator, Simon Ekpa, has been released by Police in Finland, hours after he was arrested and grilled on Thursday, according to HS.

Earlier in the day, Ekpa was escorted out of his apartment in Lahti by Finnish policemen.

He was later released after the police allegedly arrested him for a suspected crime.

The Finnish Central Criminal Police has now confirmed Ekpa’s release on Thursday.

The police claimed Ekpa’s arrest was in connection with the ongoing preliminary investigation.


 

“The person being questioned today is suspected of a crime. We will return to the title on Friday,” Tommi Reen from the Central Criminal Police told HS during a phone interview.

Ekpa, a self-acclaimed disciple of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, had repeatedly ordered the people of the South-East to observe a sit-at-home and asked them to boycott the country’s general elections billed for Saturday.

Sunday, February 19, 2023

BIAFRA NEWS : IPOB raises alarm over planned bank attacks in Southeast

  


The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has raised the alarm that its intelligence unit, the M-Branch, has uncovered plans by some criminal elements,

 claiming to be its leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s disciples to invade banks in Abia State and blame it on IPOB and ESN operatives. The group labeled the individuals fake disciples.

“We, the global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)

 under the command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu wish to disassociate ourselves from the secret plans to attack banks in Abia State or other

 state in Biafra while masses are looking for new currency notes,” IPOB said in a statement signed by its Media, and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful.

“IPOB intelligence unit, the M-Branch, released this Intel in advance to advise our people to be prepared because they have devised another 

means to suffer our people. The purported sit-at-home orders have failed; their contractors want them to change strategies that will also be dead on arrival.

“We made this Intel public for our people to know that there is danger ahead and the danger will come in different ways against our innocent citizens. 

Therefore, we call on all Biafrans to resist any attempt to be used by anyone to attack and destroy the banks in Igbo land. MNK has consistently warned our people that banks, worship centers, schools, and markets are not places to vent anger at in times of protest or wars.

“Our people should know that any bank attacked or destroyed in Biafra land our enemies will use to justify why our people will not be able to access their monies from banks. Other ethnic groups can protest and destroy banks without the Nigeria government punishing them, but in the case of Biafrans, particularly Igbos are visited with wickedness and shedding of blood.


 

“Our people must keep their emotions in check and realize that the issues of Biafra freedom are beyond emotions. We all need Biafra to come quickly,  

but we must be cautious not to play into the hands of our already weakened and frustrated enemies,” IPOB warned, urging the Igbo not to “support or join any attack on any bank in Biafra land, particularly at Aba, Abia State.”

The group insisted that it was not part of the plan, saying that IPOB does not encourage nor indulge in criminalities. 

“In the event of attack on any bank in the East, Biafrans should hold Autopiloters who have branded themselves MNK disciples responsible because they have committed other criminalities.


 

“That not withstanding; we are going to checkmate them because they have decided to blackmail IPOB and ESN operatives with their criminal plans. We cannot afford to be part of activities that will increase the pain and suffering of our people who we are fighting for their freedom.

Sunday, December 4, 2022

BIAFRA NEWS : Nigeria Jailed Nnamdi Kanu, Mere Agitator, While Confirmed Terrorist Turji Walks Free, Lawyer Accuses Buhari Government Of Selective Justice

 


A human rights lawyer and activist, Barrister Malcolm Omirhobo, has berated President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration over the detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

Omirhobo accused the government of engaging in selective justice, discrimination, suppression, repression, oppression and subjugation by detaining Kanu, a Biafra Nation agitator while the same government has allowed a confirmed terrorist leader, Bello Turji to live and operate freely in the country.

In a tweet with photos of Turji and Kanu placed side by side, Omirhobo said, “While Bello Turji, a confirmed Terrorist is working free, Nnamdi Kanu, a mere agitator is behind bars in chains.

“This is the height of selective justice, discrimination, suppression, repression, oppression and subjugation.”

Kanu has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) since June 2021 after he was re-arrested in Kenya and returned to Nigeria for the continuation of his trial for treasonable felony and terrorism.

 

Meanwhile, Turji, a terrorist leader who has been declared wanted by Nigerian security agencies, has been operating in Zamfara State and its adjoining states and even attending functions.

Meanwhile, despite the ruling of a three-man panel of judges of the Appeal Court which discharged the IPOB leader, Kanu, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF), Abubakar Malami, has insisted that Kanu would remain in detention.

 So long as Ibos are excluded, the rest of southern Nigeria is not bothered.

 That's how and why the foolani seized Nigeria since 1970 and all policies are designed to "punish" the Ibos. Buhari came in 2015 to institutionalize this policy of outright exclusion and annihilation. It seems a bit belated to begin to cry about what buhari has been doing in the past seven and a half years unchallenged. 

That's why we regret the demise of someone like Gani. Wole Soyinka is aged and has lost his human rights verve to demand from the system a sense of equity and fairness. Let southerners search their minds and hearts why they turned their attention away from buhari's nepotism and bigotry. 

Why worry now that that the terrorist has less than six months to go. We are our own enemies. The consequences of our actions or inaction today await us in the now and the future.

Friday, July 1, 2022

BIAFRA NEWS : Farmers in Kaduna communities pay terrorists N400m to access farmlands – Community leader

 




Alhaji Zubairu Abdulra’uf, a community leader from the Birnin Gwari Emirate Council in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State,

 lamented that members of the communities in the area were allowed to go to their farms this rainy season by bandits after paying N400 million.

He said that the people of the emirate have all started defending themselves against the activities of terrorists that had taken over the area over the years.

Speaking to newsmen in Kaduna on Thursday, he explained that the incessant attacks on communities by the terrorists had paralyzed economic activities, especially in the rural areas, and made it completely impossible for them to travel to other places to undertake their legitimate activities.

According to him, N200 million was paid to the terrorists in the Randegi district alone.

He added, “When you talk of Birnin-Gwari Local Government as a whole, it’s between N300 million to N400 million paid to these bandits.”

He further explained that the payment is in three stages, stressing that the bandits are paid in pre-season and mid-season when the crops are about to start yielding.

He added that payment has to be made to the bandits because they will not allow the farmers to have access to their farms, saying that at the end of the season when the farmers are harvesting, they will also pay the bandits before they access their farms.

Abdulra’uf also revealed that the levy does not end there, adding that each farmer also gives between two to 10 bags of grains to the bandits.

He said the residents of Birnin-Gwari have been paying the levies for over three years, lamenting the frustration. He said since the government cannot protect them, they have chosen to arm themselves.

Saturday, December 11, 2021

Biafra and Other Agitations Will Be Buried If South-East Gets 2023 Presidency – Buhari’s Minister, Ngige

Ngige, however, said rotating the presidency to the South was a sensitive one considering the issues surrounding it. 

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has joined the quest by the South-East geopolitical zone to produce Nigeria’s president in 2023.

Ngige said all the agitations for Biafra and the wounds of civil war would be permanently healed if an Igbo person emerged as President in the 2023 general election.

The minister who supported the rotation of presidency to South stated this on Channels TV.

“If Nigerians of all shades of opinion in all the political parties agree to send down the presidency in both parties to the South-East, you would have buried the ghosts of the civil war permanently. You would have buried all the separatist agitations permanently; you would have buried all the sins of ‘oh no appointments, these and that’ permanently. Everything will begin to rest,” the minister said.

Ngige, however, said rotating the presidency to the South was a sensitive one considering the issues surrounding it.

He added, “Why do I say so? I say so because we have a constitution of Nigeria which does not have the issue of zoning and rotation entrenched in it.

“But that same constitution, in section 14 talks about federal character and that in any establishment of government, there must be semblance of everybody participating so that there would not be any perception of monopoly of functions of the office there or the powers there by any section of the country.

“So, that area of the constitution, if you extrapolate it, it is talking about rotation. If you extrapolate it, it is talking about zoning, states to be represented in government or any government institution.

“That is why some political parties like the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) now have zoning and rotation. In the APC, we don’t have rotation entrenched there. But by mutual agreement, we’re doing zoning.

“We zoned the offices in the party. That’s why whenever you have the chairman coming from the North, the secretary will be South and vice versa. These are the two effective offices or power in any political party.”

Stop playing politics with our members – BNG warns Ralph Uwazuruike’s group

 

A secessionist group, Biafra National Guard (BNG), has cautioned the Ralph Uwazuruike-led Biafra Independent Movement (BIM) not to play politics with the 19 members of the group recently released by the court after 15 years of incarceration.

The BNG also threatened to deal decisively with anyone or any group of persons that indulge in trading with its name for selfish and financial aggrandisements.

This was coming against the backdrop of the reported claim that the 19 BNG members, including the wife of its leader, Innocent Orji, are members of the BIM.

DAILY POST also recalls that the said members were incarcerated in the Federal Correctional Centre in Onitsha for over 15 years on the accusation of violent agitation for Biafra.

However, the BNG, in a statement by its spokesman, Agwu Francis, on Friday, disclosed that it took them three years to force the release of her members, who are not guilty of any known crime under local and international laws.

The pro-Biafra group also said while it was fighting for their release, the BIM did not ask questions or render any form of financial support, noting that its leader did all that was within and outside his powers to force the freedom of the members.

It further opined that it is not against any form of compensation to her members by the Nigerian government but the compensatory process must go through the defence counsel of its members freed by the court, C. I Mezie.

“It has come to the notice that some unscrupulous elements who claimed 19 members of BNG-prisoners of conscience including the wife of Genera Innocent Orji are members of MASSOB or BIM-MASSOB and that gave them right to speak on their behalf or arrange a backdoor compensation.

“These are men without shame. Our members have been incarcerated for more than 15 years without any of them asking questions or sending any form of support. For more than 15 years, MASSOB or BIM did not ask any question while boasting that BNG is toothless and that was why over 19 of our members were then still incarcerated.

“MASSOB and BIM have been boasting over the years that they have no single members of their groups left in detention while giving their respective leaders praises. BNG was scorned; abused and booed because our leader General Innocent Orji was incarcerated along with our 19 members. These unscrupulous elements worked against the release of our members. Supported election when we opposed it shamelessly wants to do money business with our members.

“It took three years of Innocent Orji’s freedom to force the release of these members of BNG who committed no known crimes under any local and international laws. The commander of BNG did all that was within and outside his powers with monumental sacrifices to force the freedom of our members. General Innocent Orji singlehandedly funded the defence team; paid for publicity and everything needed to be paid while in detention and when he was released. He showed exemplary leadership worthy of emulation for history to judge.

“Today, unknown elements are claiming members of BNG are their members so as to use our members and enrich their pockets. With the anger of what we have lost, the years wasted and the pains of oppression; BNG will devastatingly strike anyone that dares to use members of BNG to play money politics.

“BNG is therefore warning agents meeting and consulting politicians for compensation of our members. It is crucial to also categorically state that BNG has nothing to do with MASSOB or BIM-MASSOB and we will decisively deal with any group misleading or playing unhealthy politics with our members to enrich their pockets in the name of compensation.

“BNG is warning all politicians; within and outside Biafra to stay away from wrong channels if they truly want to work towards compensating our members. We don’t oppose the compensation of our members, but any compensation must go through C.I. Meze, our defence counsel who suffered for our members.

“Compensate is a post legal affair and the power of attorney given to C. I Mezie remains valid and puts him in the position of negotiation. BNG is not yet aware of any compensation and our defence counsel have not informed us about any compensation. BNG will vehemently deal with anyone found to use or using our members to organize a backdoor,” the BNG stated.

We Want Biafra And Nothing Less, Restructuring Campaigners Should Think Again—IPOB

 

We Want Biafra And Nothing Less, Restructuring Campaigners Should Think Again—IPOB 

 The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) said all supporters of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu will be happy when he eventually regains freedom from the Department of State Services (DSS) that has detained him since June.
 
The group also said it has nothing to say about the visit of some Igbo leaders to Aso Villa to beg President Muhammadu Buhari for the unconditional release of its leader.
 

IPOB revealed these through its spokesman, Emma Powerful during an interview with Vanguard on Saturday.

“We don't have any position on that. We are waiting for the unconditional release of our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu because he committed nothing to deserve his current ordeals and inhuman treatments.
 
“IPOB members and indeed Biafrans and friends of Biafra will be happy and thank our God, Chukwu Okike Abiama (when Nnamdi Kanu regains freedom).”
 
Speaking on some people still enforcing sit-at-home, Powerful said, “We have issued warnings to those enforcing sit at home and also warned those attacking and snatching vehicles from our people in the name of unknown gunmen. IPOB will never allow them have breathing space to humiliate and intimidate our people because IPOB is a peaceful movement and our sole purpose is to achieve Biafra freedom, not intimidate our people.
 
“We know that the Department of State Services, DSS is the one creating different groups to demonise IPOB but they don't know how IPOB Movement is structured. For 100 years to come, IPOB will remain a puzzle to them. Those creating different Facebook accounts distracting IPOB leadership don't know how IPOB operates and should not think that they can destroy the movement or the leadership. 
 
“Monday sit-at-homes have been suspended long ago. The suspension was based on compelling need not to compound the woes of our people.” 
 
When asked whether the group would relinquish its agitation for Biafra if the Nigerian government decides to restructure Nigeria, he said, “ Nigerian government must bear one thing in mind; IPOB is not fighting (for) restructuring. We are not against restructuring but our demand is not restructuring. Our demand is the restoration of Biafra State. All we need is a date for a referendum to decide whether or not we want to continue with this forced marriage.
 
“Those who think Nigeria is ready for restructuring may have to think again. Those benefiting from the current lopsidedness have made restructuring impossible. They are unlikely to heed the clamour for restructuring.
 
“But for us, the only thing that can make us slow down a little is the government giving us a date for a referendum. Restoration of the sovereign State of Biafra is a divine mandate. Our eternal leader Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu told them to restructure Nigeria, they said no and killed millions of Biafrans in the war. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB did not come on board to demand restructuring; we are for total freedom and independence.”
 
Ipob spokesman also spoke on the Anambra governorship election where the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof Chukwuma Soludo emerged the winner.
 
“What happened in Anambra State during governorship elections is what to call masterstrokes to those evil politicians who wanted to take over Anambra State Government house by all means. By the time we frustrated their evil plots, they did not have time again to apply plan B.
"If we did not suspend that five days sit at home the desperadoes who wanted to enslave Anambra at all cost would have taken over the state,” Powerful added.

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Nnamdi Kanu Sends Important Message To IPOB Members From Detention

 

 

The detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has sent an important message to his followers over the Biafra movement.

The embattled separatist according to one of his brothers, Prince Kanu Meme, has asked his disciples to trust and comply with directives from the Directorate of State (DOS).

Boasting his belief in the separatist movement’s administrative structure, Kanu said “I’m DOS and DOS is me”.

Naija News understands that the DOS, headed by diaspora-based Chika Edoziem has been contending with authority issues since Kanu’s arrest in Kenya in June 2021.

It has been observed that IPOB is in disintegration following Nnamdi Kanu’s rearrest and detention. The present situation of the Biafran movement can be likened to that of sheep without a shepherd.

However, Kanu in a conversation with his sibling on the ongoing commotion in the group beginning from the DOS, down to the zonal coordinators, said IPOB members must not yield to Satan’s enticements.

Prince Kanu’s statement after the alleged Monday night meeting with the embattled IPOB leader reads: “Today being the 22/11/21, I visited the AlphaMale Mazi Nnamdi Kanu leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra at the department of state security services Abuja.

“After being properly informed, he left me with these 2 messages to Biafrans. Do not yield to Satan’s enticements, rather, stand firm for truth. He said,am DOS and DOS is me. Finally, he assured Biafrans and lovers of freedom that Elohim is in full control”.See the post below:

Meanwhile, a Northern socio-cultural group, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has slammed Ohanaeze Ndigbo over the demand for the unconditional release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

Naija News reports that stakeholders in the South East have asked President Muhammadu Buhari on numerous occasions to order the release of Kanu from DSS custody.

Backing the calls, an Igbo delegation met with the President at the Presidential Villa last week Friday to ask for the unconditional release of the IPOB leader.

But the ACF has frowned at the demand for Kanu’s release, describing it as unlawful and support for the alleged crimes against Nigeria.

According to the ACF spokesman, Emmanuel Yawe, the demand for Kanu’s release shows that Ohanaeze Ndigbo has always been in support of Kanu’s illegal activities.

Saturday, June 19, 2021

Rivers College of Health shuts down college, orders students to go home

 


The Management of Rivers State College of Health Science and Management Technology Port Harcourt has directed all the students of the institution to vacate the college premises until further notice.

According to the management, the students have until 4pm on Saturday to comply with the directive.

The order follows the refusal of the students who have been protesting over lack of basic amenities in the college, to open the gate of the institution since they started their protest on Tuesday.

Rivers College of Health lecturer allegedly rapes female student, family raises alarm
 gathered that the students have also threatened to continue their protest on Monday.

The Provost of the College, Professor Franklin Nlerum who confirmed the development said directive is to forestall the breakdown of law and order in the case of any further protest.

According to him” the students have refused any appeal by the management of the college to get back to their class rooms”.

“They made initial request that they do not have water and light but management has restored light and water to the campus”. We do not understand what they are still looking for”.

“Since they have refused to listen to the request of management to come back to the class rooms and let things be done normally. So management felt that there is no need to make trouble with them and especially since they have also threatened that from next week they will be on the road and management does not want any student to he hurt because we know that hoodlums may hijack that”.

“That is why we have said they can go home for now while management is meeting and discussing how to address the agitations”.

Thursday, June 10, 2021

Southeast should be allowed to secede – Northern Elders

 

Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has said in other to prevent another civil war in Nigeria, the Southeast should be allowed to secede from Nigeria if the movement is popular among the people in the region.

“The Forum has arrived at the difficult conclusion that if support for secession among the Igbo is as widespread as it is being made to look, and Igbo leadership appears to be in support of it, then the country should be advised not to stand in its way,” NEF spokesman Hakeem Baba-Ahmed said in a statement on Monday

“It will not be the best choice for the Igbo or Nigerians to leave a country we have all toiled to build and a country we all have responsibility to fix, but it will not help a country already burdened with failures on its knees to fight another war to keep the Igbo in Nigeria.”

Baba-Ahmed further stated that standing in the way of the agitators will only worsen the insecurity in the country.

He said the agitation by the Igbo for secession has become widespread, adding that the leaders in the state appear to support the decision.

“The Forum insists that attacks and killings of Northerners and Federal Government employees and destruction of National assets must stop,” Baba-Ahmed said.

“Those who have been involved in it must be arrested and prosecuted.”

Baba-Ahmed also called northerners who are exposed to harassment and violence to consider relocating to the North.

“Until the Igbo decide whether it wants to secede or remain part of Nigeria, the law applies to it, and Federal and State Governors who have responsibility to enforce the law and protect citizens must enforce it,” Baba-Ahmed said.

He also advised that all Igbo and other ethnic groups from the South residing in the North should be accorded the usual hospitality and security.

The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) are demanding the secession of the Southeast from Nigeria.

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

BIAFRA NEWS : The Nigerian Civil War and ‘Humanitarian Intervention’

 Biafra will come without war ― Kanu's brother - Vanguard News

The 1967–70 Nigerian Civil War (also known as the ‘Biafran War’) was notorious for the prolonged 

suffering of the civilian population in the secessionist enclave of ‘Biafra’ and the failure of repeated international attempts to bring about an early end to the conflict. At the time the term ‘humanitarian intervention’ was used to denote the international emergency relief operation, rather than a military 

intervention — which is how the term has subsequently come to be used. Ironically this humanitarian relief operation may have contributed to the prolongation of the war and thereby added to the human suffering. In this chapter, based partly on my experience working on the ground in this conflict, I argue 

that other forms of intervention, which could just as reasonably be described as ‘humanitarian’, were neglected by the principal international actors engaged with the conflict. I compare this state of affairs with subsequent approaches to intervention in Africa and elsewhere and conclude by suggesting that the lessons from ‘Biafra’ could be used to inform a more enlightened approach to ‘humanitarian intervention’ in present-day crises.

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The Nigerian Civil War and‘Humanitarian Intervention’

 Michael AaronsonIntroductionThe 1967–70 Nigerian Civil War (also known as the ‘Biafran War’) wasnotorious for the prolonged suffering of the civilian population in thesecessionist enclave of ‘Biafra’ and the failure of repeated internationalattempts to bring about an early end to the conflict. At the time the 

term‘humanitarian intervention’ was used to denote the international emer-gency relief operation, rather than a military intervention – which ishow the term has subsequently come to be used. Ironically this human-itarian

 relief operation may have contributed to the prolongation ofthe war and thereby added to the human suffering.

 In this chapter,based partly on my experience working on the ground in this conflict,I argue that other forms of intervention, which could just as reasonablybe described as ‘humanitarian’, were neglected by the principal inter-national actors engaged with the conflict. I compare this state of affairswith subsequent approaches to

 intervention in Africa and elsewhere andconclude by suggesting that the lessons from ‘Biafra’ could be used toinform a more enlightened approach to ‘humanitarian intervention’ inpresent-day crises.BackgroundAt the time of Biafran secession the Federal Republic of Nigeria consistedof four regions: northern, western, mid-

western and eastern. Since pre-independence days Nigerian politics had been dominated by ethnicrivalries across and within these regional groups. The war began on30 May 1967 when, following a long period of political crisis acrossthe country, including military coup and counter coup and reprisa

 killings of mainly Igbo civilians originating from the Eastern Region, ColOjukwu, the region’s governor, declared secession and the establishmentof the ‘Republic of Biafra’. The Federal Government of Nigeria 

 

(FGN)which had already imposed an economic blockade of ‘Biafra’, respondedby launching an armed attack against ‘the rebels’. Despite a number ofinternationally supported initiatives to bring an end to the conflict,

 itdragged on for 30 months. Although the Nigerian armed forces enjoyedoverwhelming military superiority the Biafrans succeeded in prolong-ing the fighting – as much by political as military means. The resultwas a long, slow, inefficient war of attrition, which the internationalcommunity appeared powerless to end. The most 

salient feature of thewar was a massive and controversial international relief operation tosupport the civilia

n victims of the conflict – on both sides, but mainlyinside Biafra. Despite this, by the time of Biafra’s surrender 

on 12 January1970, an estimated 600,000 people – the vast majority of them civilians –had died.1From August 1969 until October 1971 I worked in Eastern Nigeria asa member of Save the Children UK’s2international 

relief and rehabili-tation programme. I was, therefore, a participant in the ‘humanitarianintervention’ that took place. At the time we were in no doubt what theterm ‘humanitarian’ meant: it signified that we were motivated solelyby a concern to bring relief to the civilian victims of the conflict, asidefrom any political or other 

objectives. As this perception was shared byboth parties to the conflict it meant we were able to act relatively freelyand independently, within the constraints of working in a war zone.We organized food distributions to rural communities that had spentup to two months hiding in the ‘bush’ because they feared genocideby the

 advancing Nigerian Army and who were, when they were even-tually persuaded to emerge, in very poor condition indeed. We ranintensive feeding programmes for the most severely malnourished chil-dren and 

organized emergency sick bays to treat the most seriouslyill.3We could reasonably claim to have saved many lives and, perhapsunsurprisingly, I acquired a passionate belief in humanitarian values andthe importance of neutral, independent, humanitarian action.From 1988 to 2005 I worked again for Save the Children UK, firstas 

overseas director and then as the charity’s chief executive. Duringthis period ‘humanitarianism’ became a more contested concept and‘humanitarians’ lost some of their self-confidence, for a variety of rea-sons that I shall explore later in this chapter. This was reflected in thefact that the term ‘humanitarian intervention’ came to be used by politi-cians and scholars alike to denote military intervention for ostensibly

Notes

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    John Stremlau, The International Politics of the Nigerian Civil War1967–70, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press: 1997).Google Scholar
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    For example: Chibuike Uche, ‘Oil, British Interests and the Nigerian Civil War’, Journal of African History, 49.1 (2008): 111–35.Google Scholar
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    Charles R Nixon, ‘Self-Determination: The Nigeria/Biafra Case’, World Politics 24.4 (1972), 480.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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    Walter Schwarz, Nigeria (London: Pall Mall Press, 1968), 230.Google Scholar
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    K. W. J. Post, ‘Is There a Case for Biafra?’, International Affairs, 44.1 (1968): 26–39;CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  7. S.K. Panter-Brick, ‘The Right to Self-Determination: Its Application to Nigeria’, International Affairs, 44.2 (1968): 254–66.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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    Laurie S. Wiseberg, ‘Christian Churches and the Nigerian Civil War’, Journal of African Studies, 2.3 (1975): 297–331, cited in Stremlau The International Politics, 281–2.Google Scholar
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    David P. Forsythe, The Humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 201.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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    Suzanne Cronje, The World and Nigeria (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1972), Appendix 2.Google Scholar
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    Meredith Preston McGhie and Serena Sharma, ‘Kenya’ in Jared Genser and Irwin Cottier, eds, The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Time (Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2011).Google Scholar
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    Michael Reisman and Myres S. McDougal ‘Humanitarian intervention to protect the Ibos’, (1969) referred to in R. B. Lillich, Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations (Charlottesville, 1973), 177.Google Scholar
  13. Cited in Nicholas Wheeler, Saving Strangers (Oxford, OUP: 2000): 42.Google Scholar
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    See, for example Jennifer M. Welsh, ed., Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006);Google Scholar
  15. Aidan Hehir, Humanitarian Intervention: An Introduction (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).Google Scholar
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    A. Bellamy, S. Chesterman, J. Pattison, T. Weiss and J. Welsh, contributions to ‘Roundtable on Libya and Humanitarian Intervention’, Ethics and International Affairs, 25.3 (2011): 271–7.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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    Michael Barnett and Thomas G. Weiss, eds, Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008).Google Scholar
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    Michael Barnett, Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002);Google Scholar
  19. Alex De Waal, ‘Darfur and the Failure of the Responsibility to Protect’, International Affairs, 83.6 (2007): 1039–54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Friday, April 30, 2021

NEWS : US to prioritise student visa applications for Nigerians

 

The United States Mission in Nigeria has said it will prioritise visa applications for students who hope to resume academic studies in the states by September 2021.

This was contained in a statement signed by the US Mission Country Consular Coordinator, Susan Tuller and released by Temitayo Famutimi of the Public Affairs Section of the US Consulate General on Friday.

The statement said the Mission said it would prioritise visa interview appointments for Nigerian students in advance of their programme start date.

“As we continue to prioritize the health and safety of our staff and customers, processing student visas remains a high priority for the US Mission in Nigeria.

“We will increase the number of student visa appointments in May and June to ensure that we can offer appointments to as many students as possible.

“ If your US studies are scheduled to begin this Fall, we encourage you to schedule your appointment as quickly as possible,” Tuller was quoted as saying in the statement.

“All student visa appointments must be booked through the US Travel Docs website.

“However, applicants are warned against the use of third-party services, including touts, and fixers who broker visa appointments,” the statement said.

 

Sunday, December 27, 2020

NEWS : Shooting at Illinois bowling alley leaves 3 dead, 3 injured

 


A gunman opened fire inside an Illinois bowling alley, killing three people and injuring three others Saturday night in what authorities believe was a random attack.

A “person of interest” was taken into custody after the shooting at Don Carter Lanes, Rockford Police Chief Dan O’Shea said during a news conference. A subsequent tweet from the police department said a suspect was in custody.

Two of those who were shot were teenagers, O'Shea said.

O'Shea did not immediately release additional information about the victims or the person who was taken into custody. He described the scene as contained and said he did not think any officers fired their weapons while apprehending the person of interest.


Saturday, December 26, 2020

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