THE RESTORATION OF BIAFRA NATION

Calls IPOB Leader’s Trial ‘Judicial Mutiny A legal practitioner, Onyedikachi Ifedi, has condemned the ongoing terrorism trial of Biafra agitator, Nnamdi Kanu, describing it as a judicial betrayal of the African Charter on human and peoples’ rights. Kanu, who was forcefully returned to Nigeria from Kenya in 2021, is standing trial before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja. But Ifedi insists the prosecution is unlawful because the African Charter, domesticated as part of Nigerian law, expressly prohibits extraordinary rendition and inhuman treatment. In a statement on Thursday, the lawyer argued that any trial arising from Kanu’s abduction is unconstitutional, null, and contrary to binding precedent. “To allow a prosecution tainted by kidnapping and torture to proceed against the Biafran leader is expressly forbidden by the Charter and confirmed by the larger constitutional bench of the Supreme Court of Nigeria,” he said. Ifedi faulted the December 15, 2023 judgmen...

  Popular Nollywood actor, Ime Bishop Umoh, a.k.a. Okon Lagos,  has called on the Federal Government to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. He made the call in a recent episode of The Clarity Zone podcast,  emphasising that the IPOB leader should be released in the interest of peace and national reconciliation, even if it doesn’t make legal sense. He claimed that pardoning Kanu would be morally right,  arguing that the IPOB leader’s agitation for Biafra’s secession was emotional and fuelled by the perceived marginalisation of the Igbos in Nigeria. I am one million percent of the opinion that Nnamdi Kanu should be freed.  Free him. It may not make legal sense depending on what they have claimed,  that the evidences that have been put in the fore of the ‘crimes’ he has committed. It [freeing Kanu] doesn’t need to make legal sense, but it makes moral common sense,” Umoh claimed. His guest, Nedu Wazobia, asked: “Ho...

  A legal practitioner, Onyedikachi Ifedi,  has said the continued trial of the Biafra nation agitator,  Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on terrorism charges is an affront to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Nnamdi Kanu’s trial is being carried out at the Federal High Court in Abuja by the federal government upon his extraordinary rendition from Kenya. However, the lawyer argued that the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights explicitly prohibited extraordinary rendition and inhuman treatment as done to Kanu, by the federal government in the Kenya abduction episode. He submitted that since the African Charter prohibited extraordinary rendition and is part of the Nigerian law, prosecution of Kanu had become voided and unnecessary on the strength of the abduction. According to him, to allow a prosecution tainted by kidnapping and torture to proceed against the Biafran leader is expressly forbidden by the Charter and confirmed by the larger constitutional bench of th...

The Apex Igbo Socio-cultural Organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo,  has refuted the recent statements made by the former Military Head of State,  General Yakubu Gowon that the Nigerian, Biafran civil war was not targeted at the Igbo people. Gowon stated that rather it was instead the secessionists who revolted against the Nigerian government in 1966. Ohanaeze said such claims are not only gross misinformation but also a blatant misrepresentation of historical fact while describing the representation as an affront to the collective memory and dignity of the Igbo nation.   The lgbo group noted that it is a moral obligation to address the pervasive biases and distorted narratives perpetuated by General Gowon, who, as a 91-year-old former military head of state, was tragically manipulated by colonial powers and the Fulani oligarchy. In a statement issued on Sunday by a factional Deputy President-General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Ohanaeze accused General Gowon of failure to  pr...

  Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu,  leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said the family of the Biafra agitator has paid a heavy price for his agitation. Ejimakor said the matter of Biafra has impacted heavily on the family of Kanu. Kanu has been incarcerated since June 2021 when he was picked up in Kenya and subjected to extraordinary rendition to Nigeria. Since his return to Nigeria, the IPOB leader has remained locked up by the Department of State Services (DSS), despite court orders that discharged and acquitted him. In the course of Kanu’s Biafra agitation, the military, under the codename Operation Python Dance, had attempted to eliminate him but failed.     Soldiers had invaded Kanu’s residence in Afaraukwu in Abia State but missed him.       Amid the agitation for Biafra, Kanu lost both parents. However, posting on X, Ejimakor wrote: “The matter of MAZI NNAMDI KANU & #Biafra have impacted equally, if...

   The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra,  IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has extended an open invitation to anybody who wants to visit him at the Department of State Services, DSS, facility.    Kanu gave the invitation in reaction to the Kenyan High Court’s ruling on his extradition rendition to Nigeria. This was disclosed by his Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, on Friday after his routine meeting with the Biafra agitator.   Security  agents had rearrested Kanu in June 2021 and subjected him to extraordinary rendition back to Nigeria. But a Kenyan High Court sitting in Nairobi, on June 24, ruled that Kanu’s extraordinary rendition was unlawful and illegal. Reacting to the judgment, Kanu commended his lawyers and family members for the landmark judgment.    Posting on X, Ejimakor wrote: “Rising from today’s visitation, MAZI NNAMDI KANU took the opportunity to hail his lawyers & siblings for the stunning victory from Kenya. “He also extend...

  Nigerians from the south eastern part of the country, under the auspices of indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) and leadership of  Nnamdi Kanu , and Movement for the Actualization Of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) continue to agitate for secession from Nigeria to form their own country, Biafra. Concise updates on Biafra is all you need to stay abreast of events as they unfold in this long-drawn secession struggle. Get updates on the struggles, the protests, the twists and the turns Search Ebonyi State High Court presided over by Justice I. P. Chima, on Thursday, discharged and acquitted the last batch of 24 out of 36 Biafran freedom fighters who have been in prison custody and standing trial for conspiracy and treason. omes after a preliminary objection raised by  they termed a blatant violation of their fundamental rights, particularly the constitutionally guaranteed protection against double jeopardy, as enshrined under Section 36(9) of the 1999 Constitution (as am...