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Why Jibrin Ibrahim was Wrong on the ‘Igbo Question’ – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe

Posted by admin Articles, Biafra, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists Friday, December 11th, 2015

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | December 11, 2015 – I thought I was done with writing about Biafra – after three articles on the subject that sought to address the issue from different perspectives. However following the bold effort by Dr Jibrin Ibrahim to re-frame the Biafra discourse and the flurry of […]

In Defence of the Spirit of Biafra – By Anthony A. Kila

Posted by admin Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Biafra, Columnists, NNP Columnists Friday, December 11th, 2015

By Anthony A. Kila | London, UK | December 11, 2015 – Those who easily discard the spirit of Biafra are wrong and they need to be corrected. A closer look at their position and action will easily reveal that their swiftness to discard is borne out of ignorance and naivety at best or intolerance […]

Agitation for Biafra legitimate, but … – Lai Mohammed

Posted by admin Biafra, Latest Politics Thursday, December 10th, 2015

By CALEB AYANSINA ABUJA – The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Thursday, called on religious leaders across the country, particularly those in the south-east region to appeal to those agitating for the republic of Biafra to let peace reign in the region for even development. Lai Mohammed, who was speaking at the […]

BIAFRA: Igbo have the right to clamour for self-determination, says Kalu

Posted by admin Biafra, Headlines Tuesday, December 8th, 2015

IPOB women give 7-day ultimatum to FG over Kanu S-East not advocating secession — Ebonyi govt By Kenneth Ehigiator, Chidi Nkwopara, Daniel Eteghe, Peter Okutu , Ugochukwu Alaribe & Chimaobi Nwaiwu In a strategy designed to separate himself from a controversial movement that parades two factions, the leader of the Movement for the Actualization of […]

MASSOB changes name, now Biafra Independent Movement –Uwazuruike

Posted by admin Biafra, Headlines Sunday, December 6th, 2015

Says IPOB should protest in Abuja, Lagos, not South-East From George Onyejiuwa, Owerri Less than a week after Uchenna Madu’s faction of Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) expelled its founding leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, the latter said, yesterday, the group has undergone a name change. MASSOB, Uwazuruike said yesterday, has now transformed […]

Biafra: Hausa in Onitsha go into hiding

Posted by admin Anambra, Biafra, Headlines, State News Sunday, December 6th, 2015

Tony Okafor Members of the Hausa community in Onitsha, Anambra State, who fled the town following the two-day pro-Biafran agitation fracas, which resulted in the death of about nine persons and destruction of properties, are still into hiding. When our correspondent visited Onitsha on Saturday, the baristas, shoe menders, green grocers, barbecue sellers and allied […]

Biafra: We won’t succumb to intimidation —MASSOB

Posted by admin Biafra, Headlines Wednesday, November 25th, 2015

Group slams FG over Kanu’s detention Traders woo Buhari Uwazurike hosts Bianca Ojukwu By Nwabueze Okonkwo & Chimaobi Nwaiwu Nnewi—The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has said that no amount of intimidation, harassment and blackmail will ever deter its leader Chief Ralph Uwazurike from dropping the agitation […]

I’ll be alive to actualize Biafra —Uwazuruike

Posted by admin Biafra, Latest Politics Sunday, November 22nd, 2015

ONITSHA —Leader of the Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, yesterday, charged members of the movement to remain steadfast and focused in the revolutionary struggle, saying that the non-violent method adopted by MASSOB had become a source of worry to the so-called northern socio-cultural group, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, […]

MASSOB threatens to move against Ohanaeze Ndigbo

Posted by admin Biafra, Headlines Sunday, November 22nd, 2015

Tony Okafor The Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra has threatened to move against leaders of the Igbo socio-cultural organisation, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo if they fail to guide their utterances over the Biafra agitation. In a press statement on Sunday in Awka, Anambra State, by MASSOB’s national director of information, Uchenna Madu, […]

BIAFRA: Leaders to meet Buhari on Igbo marginalization

Posted by admin Biafra, Latest Politics, South-East Sunday, November 22nd, 2015

By Emeka Mamah, Anayo Okoli, Francis Igata, Vincent Ujumadu, and Caleb Ayansina Enugu—THE meeting of Igbo leaders summoned yesterday by the South East Governors’ Forum, SEGF, to discuss the security implications of the agitations by members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, and the Indigenous People of Biafra, […]