Biafra

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused the pan-Igbo Socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, of betrayal and sabotage of Igbo interest.

The oldest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford University, has appointed Nigeria’s former External Affairs Minister, Professor Ibrahim Gambari and the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, to the International Advisory Board of its African Studies Centre.

A senatorial aspirant for the Abia South senatorial district under the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chinedu Onyeizu, has said that his aspiration to represent his people at the Red Chambers of the National Assembly goes beyond the issues surrounding missing leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

A group, G23 Foundation, seeking the reelection of President Muhammadu Buhari in next year’s general elections has exonerated the president over the Indigenous People of Biafra’s proscription.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has expressed contempt over the activities of South East governors and the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, stating that it has proscribed Ohanaeze Ndigbo and all other “gatherings of saboteurs and collaborators operating within Biafra”.

Ahead of the 2019 elections, the leader and chairman of all Africans in China, Emma Ositadimma Ojukwu, has maintained that wife of the late Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu, Bianca, is qualified to represent Anambra South where her husband hails from.

The sit-at-home order by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in the South East, to commemorate the army invasion of the Afaraukwu, Abia State home of Nnamdi Kanu, on Friday was ignored as residents in Enugu, Anambra, Abia states and other parts of the south east went about their normal businesses.

The Delta Police Command says there is no cause for alarm over the threat by the proscribed pro-Biafra groups to shut down commercial activities across the South East and South-South areas.

The Police Command in Anambra has described the rate of compliance with Friday’s sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the state as low.

The sit-at-home protest declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) across the South East and South South region of the country was fairly complied with across the south-east states.

Commercial banks, markets and business outlets in Umuahia, the Abia capital, opened for business on Friday, defying the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra.

The Rivers State Police Command says it has restored normalcy after suspected members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) allegedly burnt trucks belonging to Dangote Industries Ltd.

The Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr Mohammed Danmallam, has applauded the residents for defying the order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to sit-at-home.

There was full compliance in Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra State, to the sit-at-home order declared, for Friday, by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in protest against killings, arrest, detention of members and against the Operation PYTHON DANCE 3 in South-East zone.

The sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) over “disappearance” of Nnamdi Kanu, its leader, recorded partial compliance in some parts of the south-east.

The Rivers Police Command says it has restored normalcy after suspected members of Indigenous People of Biafra allegedly burnt trucks belonging to Dangote Industries Ltd.

Anambra state was partially locked down this morning as the sit-at home called by Indegenous People of Biafra (IPOB) took effect.

The Police in Abia have warned residents of the state not to engage in illegal gathering during the period of the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra.