The suit which was slammed on the Federal Government by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has been assigned to Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja and will be heard on June 21. IPOB is seeking damages of up to N8.5billion against the Federal Government for their members who were “wickedly... Read More
An international group, the Organisation of Emerging African States (OEAS) has warned the agitators for the Republic of Biafra to watch out for pitfalls that might arise within them. The group in a letter signed by a Jonathan Levy reiterated its support for the Biafran cause while warning the agitators to hold steadfast in the... Read More
Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB has lauded the leadership style of Nnamdi Kanu, the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra. MASSOB and IPOB are key groups agitating for the secession of the Republic of Biafra from the Nigerian state. MASSOB, while praising Kanu’s leadership of the IPOB,... Read More
Secessionist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, on Monday, accused the Nigerian government, the Department of State Services and the Attorney General of the Federation, of trying to frustrate the criminal trial of its embattled leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The group said this in a statement signed by its Media and Publicity Officer, Emma Powerful, who... Read More
Once again, the Court of Appeal in Abuja has adjourned the appeal of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) till Thursday, May 5. The court, on Monday, April 25 had to adjourn the said case because Kanu’s case file was not brought to court for the hearing. Kanu is being tried... Read More
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu recently wrote a poetic piece to his disciples from prison custody. Kanu, who has been in detention since September 2015, is being tried for treason, among other charges, by the federal government. From the note which painted the IPOB members in glowing adjectives, we learned 3... Read More
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign States of Biafra, MASSOB, has ‘concluded plans to expose the evil plot against Biafra’ at an International Conference on the Rights of Indigenous People and self-determination ‘which will be held in a Western European Country in no distant time’. MASSOB has also vowed to make known Nigeria’s... Read More
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) is set to take the case of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to the International Court of Justice at The Hague, The Netherlands. Article 93 (2) procedure of the ICJ, otherwise known as World Court, would enable... Read More
The trial of Radio Biafra Director, Nnamdi Kanu, which was scheduled to continue on Tuesday, has been adjourned. The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and two others are standing trial for alleged treason. Kanu’s counsel, Chuks Muoma applied for stay of proceedings pending the hearing and determination of the appeal challenging the... Read More
Following the letter written by the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi kanu, the United Kingdom government says his case has been under observation by its officials. Kanu- a British citizen, had written a letter through his lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, urging the British government not to abandon him in incarceration, where he’s... Read More
The Indigenous People of Biafra, has urged the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to tread carefully on the issued of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu. IPOB says Kanu, who’s currently in detention, will stop accepting food that goes through the Department of State Security, to avoid the possibility of being poisoned. IPOB had a few days... Read More
In spite of the continued incarceration of founder, Nnamdi Kanu, pirate radio station, Radio Biafra, has started streaming live across the Nigerian airwaves, as stated by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). According to TheCable, the station is now live on Tune In, a radio service which operates on the Internet. The report further stated... Read More
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has declared that the Radio Biafra, which was blocked by the Federal Government in 2015 has resumed broadcasting. The announcement is contained in a statement released by IPOB spokesperson, Emma Powerful. Powerful revealed that the radio station operates on short waves and its satellites covers all the Southeast geopolitical... Read More
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has called on the British Government to lean on President Muhammadu Buhari to release him from prison. Kanu alongside two other Biafra proponents, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi, are facing treason charges. The IPOB leader wrote a letter dated March... Read More
Senior Special Assistant to the president on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has revealed why President Muhammadu Buhari would not throw his weight behind the secession of the Republic of Biafra even though he did the same for the Saharawi people in Morocco. Speaking to New Telegraph, Garba said that those making a comparison between... Read More
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is set to resume protests in the South East and South South over the continued detention of director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. In a statement released by IPOB’s head of media and publicity, Emma Powerful, the group expressed frustration over the detention of Kanu since October 14, 2015.... Read More
Anambra State Chairman of the defunct Nigeria Peoples Party, Guy Ikokwu, says the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu did not commit any treasonable offence. Ikokwu, in an interview with Vanguard, said revered author and Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, established ‘Radio Kudirat’ the same manner Nnamdi Kanu set up ‘Radio Biafra’. Consequently, he urged... Read More
Lawyer of the leader of the Indigenous People of Bifra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has alleged that the Department of State Services (DSS) has threatened to murder their client the same way late politician/businessman Moshood Abiola was ‘killed’. His lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor revealed to journalists over the weekend, that Kanu has been informed that such an... Read More
Too hot to handle? For a second time since his trial began, Nnamdi Kanu, the embattled leader of secessionist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has accused the trial judge, in his criminal prosecution for treason, of being biased. Alongside his co-accused, David Nwawusi and Benjamin Madubugwu, the Radio Biafra Director made the accusation against... Read More
A faction of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has described the allegation that they intend to invade the courtroom and free Nnamdi Kanu, as the ‘ranting of a confused and drowning people’. The Uchenna Madu-led faction of MASSOB said on Tuesday, that the group has no intention to... Read More
Nnamdi Kanu, the incarcerated leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, has filed an $800 million lawsuit against the federal government at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) court in Abuja. Kanu, who has been detained since October 2015, informed the ECOWAS court that the federal government has grossly violated his human rights. The... Read More
Justice James Tsoho of a Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the request by the prosecution to allow witnesses testify behind a witness screen in the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. A witness screen is a device positioned in the courtroom to shield a witness from seeing... Read More
The continuation of the trial of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu took a different turn on Monday, when the lawyers on the case told Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court that their lives were being threatened. While Kanu’s lawyer maintained that the Department of State Services threatened to kill him, the... Read More
Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, wife of detained leader of secessionist group Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has accused the government of the United Kingdom of abandoning her husband. Okwu-Kanu stated this in an interview granted to an American magazine, Newsweek. She said that her husband’s fundamental human rights has been violated as a court had... Read More
On a sunny afternoon in July 2013, as Hilary Okeke drove around the city of Enugu with his friends on their way back from scouting for girls at the Polo Park Mall, he turned on the radio. As he fiddled with the knob, an Igbo version of American superstar Jay Z’s Forever Young came on,... Read More
Radio Biafra Director and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu says he’d rather rot in jail than allow Igbo Socio cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, ‘claim the glory’ of his freedom. According to a statement signed on behalf of IPOB by its United Kingdom spokesmen, Dr Clifford Iroanya and Emma Mmezu, the incarcerated... Read More
The Youth Council of Ohaneze Ndigbo, has stated that people of the South East region have the largest stake in Nigeria, hence it is unrealistic to agitate for secession from the country. The group, while appealing to the federal government to release the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, alos urged him to seek better... Read More
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is littered with bad advisers, hence his resolve to not release their leader- Radio Biafra Director, Nnamdi Kanu. IPOB said the Buhari is not being told the truth by his advisers simply because they are secretly hoping his government fails. After... Read More
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu on Friday, opposed an application by the federal government to conduct his trial in secret. Kanu, who is facing a six-count treason charge, appeared before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. The government had stated that the witnesses billed to testify against Kanu and... Read More
Secessionist group, Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MOSSOB), has called on South East and South South Governors to come together to stop the attacks on pro-Biafra protesters by security agents in their states. This was stated by the MOSSOB leader, Solomon Chukwu, when his group paid a visit to Uyo, Akwa... Read More
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