The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign state of Biafran, MASSOB, has rejected in strong terms to the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to approve payment of pension to police personnel who served under the defunct Biafran police during the civil war. According to a statement made by its National Director of Publicity, Samuel Edeson on Thursday, 19 th 2017, he described the move by President Muhammadu Buhari as an administration of medicine after death. MASSOB said Buhari was using the carrot to placate what it alleged Nigeria government’s atrocities against Igbos. The group noted that even if Buhari stepped down for an Igbo man to be president of Nigeria, it cannot change demand for Biafra. The statement reads: “‎the directive that ex- Biafra policemen should be paid is medicine after death. “For forty seven years after the civil war, these men have been denied their right. Why must it be now because president Buhari feel by doing so, Ndigbo and Biafr...

According to PUNCH, President Muhammadu Buhari  had on   Friday  debunked the allegations that his government has been marginalizing the Igbos. He said while he gave the South-East zone four substantive ministers, he could not take any decision on foreign policy and investments without the input of two of them. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President spoke while receiving leaders from the region led by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said Buhari told his guests that while seven states in the North got Ministers of State in his administration, the South East got four substantive ministers.  “I gave South-East four substantive ministers in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Investment, Science and Technology and Labour. “Seven states in the North got ministers of state; and of the two ministries headed by your sons, I cannot take any de...

Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous Peoples Of Biafra (IPOB) has blown hot on the South East governors as he called them cowards for taking sides with the federal government on the proscription of IPOB Sahara Reporters reported that Barrister Ejiofor accused the southeast leaders of being egocentric and only concerned with securing their political positions instead of backing the cause championed by Nnamdi Kanu. He further claimed that the current crops of politicians in the region of the country would be swept out of office in the next general election in 2019. “Southeast governors have no power to say IPOB is a terrorist and that is very certain. I condemned it, and they’ve withdrawn it saying they never at any point say that. What they said is a political statement to obtain favour from the federal government.”  Barrister Ejiofor said. The lawyer added,  “Some of them are cowards and are saying that because they ...

According to a publication by Vanguard Newspaper, The Speaker of the Imo state House of Assembly, Mr. Acho Ihim, said that the ethnic and cultural differences in the country, would not pose any challenge to the unity of Nigeria. Ihim stated this through a release to newsmen, Wednesday, in Owerri, by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Marcellus Ekwezuo. The speaker blamed the current situation in the country, to the “spate” of hate speeches among citizens. In his view, “Hate speech has a serious adverse mental effect in the health of its victims, who may suffer from lack of self confidence and a diminished self esteem, all of which are germane for improved productivity. “The seemingly innocuous but dreaded monster, hate speeches erode whatever good things that the unity and other progress a nation may have made if it is not properly checked.” He went further to say: “Not even our religious, ethnic or cultural divergence should be allowed by anyone to constitute a barrier for a un...

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated that Nigeria will remain undivided when making his Independence speech to the nation. As a young soldier that fought the Nigerian Civil War, he recounted the casualties recorded during the Nigeran Civil War and said there shouldn't be a 'part two' of the story. Below is his long speech to the nation: My dear Nigerians, October 1st remains a special date for all Nigerians as this marks the day when we attained one of the most precious of human desires — freedom. Over the years the country has gone through trials and tribulations, but October 1st is always a day for celebrations. It is a day for thanks giving, reflection and re-dedication. It is also a day for remembrance. We should remind ourselves of the recent journey from 1999 – 2015, when our country happily returned to democratic rule. However, in spite of oil prices being an average of $100 per barrel and about 2.1m barrels a day, that great piece of luck was sq...

The Igbos in the North may have little peace of mind as the Kaduna State Government on Thursday said it had obtained a bench warrant from the court to arrest members of the Coalition of Northern Youths who gave October 1, 2017 as deadline for Ndigbo in the North to quit or be forced out of the region. This was published by the PUNCH. To juggle your mind on the quit notice saga, A coalition of northern groups, including the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum led Shettima Yerima, had in July  gave all the Igbo resident in the 19 states of the North a three-month ultimatum to quit  or be forced out after the expiration of the October 1, 2017 deadline. They also asked all northerners resident in the South-East to get prepared and return to the North. The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai had earlier ordered the arrest of the principal actors who signed the ‘Kaduna declaration.’ The declaration was signed by Nastura Ashir Sharif (Arewa Citizens Action for...

The Presidency has revealed that the following might likely happen to Senator Abaribe, and others that stood as Nnamdi Kanu’s sureties if he refuses to appear before the court on the adjournment day: ·          The presidency has said that the sureties of Nnamdi Kanu risk imprisonment ·          The presidency also said the bail bond presented by the sureties might be forfeited ·        And the court might also issue an arrest warrant for the IPOB leader, said The special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla "The federal government has already filed a motion to set aside the bail of Kanu. “Following the military exercise carried out in Umuahia, Abia State and the subsequent proscription of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu has not been seen and may have gone underground. “So it is not likely that he will appear in court on the next adjourned da...

President Muhammadu Buhari is to order the forfeiture of assets belonging to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to the federal government following the designation of the group as a terrorist organization. Sources at the Federal Ministry of Justice told the Punch of Monday, September 25, that the president is expected to appoint an administrator, who would oversee the forfeiture of IPOB’s assets, home and abroad, to the federal government. According to the sources, the forfeiture of IPOB’s assets would no longer require any court order since the group had been designated a terrorist organisation. The federal government has also reportedly documented the order of the Federal High Court which proscribed the group as a terrorist organisation and has commenced moves to notify banks, Nigerian embassies abroad and foreign missions operating in Nigeria from further relating with IPOB. The document titled Terrorism (Prevention) (Proscription Order) Notice, 2017, notified the pu...

Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, The Special Adviser to the President on Prosecution maintained the United States’ statement that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is not a terrorist group is inconsequential. After the Federal High Court, Abuja had declared the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) a terrorist group, the United States however, has said it does not see IPOB as a terrorist organization. In a statement released late on Sunday, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla insisted that IPOB’s activities certified it as a terrorist group as defined by the provisions of the Terrorism (Prevention) Act 2013. Obono-Obla said that IPOB through its advocacy and mode of operation, terrorized and or harassed or “those who do not subscribe it to its separatists ideology and ethnic bigotry before its proscription”. He added, “So it is a terrorist organisation! This is also an organisation that was hounding and killing Nigerians in Rivers and Abia States before the military intervention! ...

In line with the IPOB proscription saga that President Muhammadu Buhari accented to the document before he jetted out of the country on Sunday for the 72nd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York , Federal High Court Abuja yesterday, Wednesday, 20th September, 2017 declared the group a terrorist group. View the court documents hereinafter.

A lot of dusts have been raised over the proscription of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist group by the Nigerian Army since few days ago. Before he departed on Sunday for the 72nd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, where he will be expected to address other world leaders today, President Muhammadu Buhari put pen to paper to accentuate the proscription. This was done to get the heat off the Nigerian Army and to ensure that due process is followed, according to the report gathered by THISDAY.   “In a move to take the heat off the Nigerian Army and ensure that due process is followed, President Muhammadu Buhari has signed a presidential proclamation proscribing the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) over the group’s involvement in terrorist activities. “Making this known yesterday, sources in the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation informed THISDAY that the president signed the declaration on Sunday before his dep...

WHERE ARE THEY? (The python dance ballyhoo) Where are they? Where are the voices that the globe deifies? Have they lost their tones? Can’t they speak now and quench this fire? What of him that has read all the books on earth Even the ones written by the gods; Can’t he demonstrate the glory of his white hairs? Or has he lost confidence in his quill? But I know it isn’t possible. What of that handsome man blessed with oratory echelon? From where our foods are produced in baskets; The sound of his bucal cavity used to resurrect the dead So can’t he echo his voice again And resurrect this dying national peace? From the area the sun rises regularly The road is forced to drink the blood of her sons Plus tears of the unlucky that puncture her eyes And you tell me that things haven’t fallen apart? Please let Achebe exhume himself, and defend his book now. This is not the time to say “Not my business” Rather a time to say “It is my busines...

BUT OJUKWU NEVER TOLD US On that Monday morning that NEPA became a saint And blessed my area on like before So reluctantly I prepared to set out from my tent Since he was to do a live broadcast after his voice was missing for three full moons. It was 7:00am and NTA sang the national jingle Followed by his beautiful face that his sickness had starved us And behind his throne was the national flag that stood still Then he opened his gap-toothed mouth to calm our nerves. He was never known for lengthy words But amidst his speech that lasted about five minutes He revealed a secret only him and the dead could attest A consensus he had with the late warrior in his hometown Daura at midnight. The late warrior was his guest for over two days according to him After he joined Partisan politics in 2003 And in great depth, they discussed the nation’s fate Whilst we ignorantly slept, and were deeply snoring like a pregnant toad. “…We both came to conclusion that the country mu...