THE RESTORATION OF BIAFRA NATION

Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Honourable Ralph Goodale, wrote to the Cultural Association of Saskatchewan (ICAS) as they prepare to celebrate their Nigerian-Canadian heritage on August 3. The Canadian government has sent a powerful message to the members of the Igbo community in the country. Writing on behalf of Prime Minister Trudeau and the Government of Canada, Minister Goodale expressed pleasure to extend greetings to everyone who will be attending Igbo Day. The letter read: “Greetings to the Igbo Day of Art and Culture On behalf of Prime Minister Trudeau and the Government of Canada it is my honour to extend greetings and good wishes to all those attending the Igbo Day of Art and Culture here in Regina. “As Canadians, we draw strength from our diversity — the growing Igbo community here in Regina, across the province and across Canada espouses that sentiment and plays an important part in our mosaic of cultures. “As you gather members of th...

It denied reports that the country’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to allow one million Nigerians enter Canada, under a new employment and migration programme. The Canadian Embassy in Nigeria has fired back at Ovation International publisher, Dele Momodu, over an information he shared on Twitter, concerning allowing Nigerian immigrants into the country. Momodu had quoted a spokesman of the Canadian labour department as saying: “The programme’s website will be launched next week and all available jobs will be listed. Currently there are over 6 million vacancies and we are hoping that Buhari allows at least one million people from Nigeria.” But the Embassy, while replying to Momodu’s tweet, said the development as claimed by the publisher “is false”. It also said: “Nigerians are welcome to apply to immigrate to Canada. For the real information on how to apply, go to https://t.co/nvOkvSQzt4.” The Embassy also asked Nigerians to “shine the...

The Embassy’s Charge d’ Affaires, Michel Deleen, said in Lagos that the Embassy had since 2013, swapped its visa issuance processes in Nigeria, with the French Consulate General in Lagos and the Embassy of Belgium in Abuja. The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nigeria, on Tuesday explained why it no longer issues visas to Nigerians. “Let me remind Nigerians that since 2013, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nigeria had signed agreements with the French Consulate-General in Lagos and the Embassy of Belgium in Abuja. “What this means is that we have swapped our visa application processes in Nigeria with the French Consulate-General in Lagos and the Embassy of Belgium in Abuja. “Let me remind Nigerians that under these agreements, any Nigerian that wants to visit the Netherlands for business, study or tourism should always process their visa applications through the French Consulate-General in Lagos and the Embassy of Belgium in Abuja,” he said. ...

An indication of this emerged yesterday as content on the Executive Order signed on Friday by US President Donald Trump became public. Nigerians are at risk of losing American entry visas which have two-year validity except President Muhammadu Buhari led government change existing immigration policy with the United States. Section 9 of the Executive Order states: “The Secretary of State shall review all nonimmigrant visa reciprocity agreements to ensure that they are, with respect to each visa classification, truly reciprocal insofar as practicable with respect to validity period and fees, as required by sections 221(c) and 281 of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1201(c) and 1351, and other treatment. “If a country does not treat United States nationals seeking nonimmigrant visas in a reciprocal manner, the Secretary of State shall adjust the visa validity period, fee schedule, or other treatment to match the treatment of United States nationals by the foreign country, to the extent practic...

Eze Isreal is the father of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra(IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. This came following widespread rumours in many quarters that Eze Israel Kanu had died as a result of the shock he suffered over his wife’s demise. The family of His Royal Highness, King Isreal Okwu Kanu has dismissed a death rumour making the rounds that Eze Kanu, father of Nnamdi Kanu had passed away following the death of his wife, Mrs Sally Okwu Kanu, According to Emmanuel Kanu, “For avoidance of doubt, anyone who wishes to have an audience with the king can visit the Palace”. Reacting to the development, the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was quoted in the media as saying that the fake news about his father’s death was aimed at distracting and sabotaging the Biafran restoration. Kanu, therefore, vowed that no amount of distraction will stop the Biafran restoration. Mean while, reported that Kanu announced the death of his mother, Ugoeze Sally Meme Kanu on Sunday morning. ...

The body is making the call following the struggle by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, for the restoration of Biafra. Speaking with newsmen on Sunday, leader of the group, Igwe Ifeanyi warned the entire Ndigbo to “bury the idea of the struggle for Biafra and embrace the new platform, INM for intellectual and strategic engagements that would enthrone equity, fairness and justice to every member of the Nigerian State.” South East youths under the aegis of Igbo for Nigerian Movement, INM, have advised people of the region against heeding the call for secession, stressing that the actualization of Biafra is not the panacea to their problems but the beginning. Ifeanyi noted that the ongoing clamour by some persons for the secession of Igbo from Nigeria was a call to self-destruction and would only do them more harm than good. He said only if Igbos were united can they reap maximum benefits f...

Power is elusive; it eludes many that desire it because, “it takes a unique kind of man to win the struggle for power”. It is only the gritty, resilient and tough-minded with enormous capacity for expediency and intrigues that can win the struggle for presidential power in Nigeria. Nobody can ever dash you power. So, for the 2023 presidential election, the Igbo must field “unique kind of men” that can win the struggle for power or there will not be an Igbo president. To become the president of Nigeria, a presidential candidate must battle for power and be bruised, battered and bloodied in the political trenches for power. The global advance of democracy and its peaceful transfer of power, through the ballot box, made obsolete Mao Tse Tung’s maxim that “power flows from the barrel of the gun”, but still, the struggle for power is no mean feat; it remains incredibly excruciating. To expect the emergence of an Igbo president because it is the turn of the Igbo (for the sake of ju...