Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, at a press conference in Lagos on Monday, said the country has tolerated the excesses of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and his hate speech for too long. He referred to IPOB as a contraption against the Buhari administration, saying the government […]
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Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to meet and dialogue with the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, as a measure to curb the secessionist agitations in the South-East. Obasanjo made his opinion known in an interview with the Newsweek Magazine. He said, “I don’t see […]
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Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has cancelled a pre-scheduled meeting with the south-east governors forum. In a statement personally signed by him, Kanu alleged that soldiers intend to assassinate him on his way to the meeting. He also said his group was preoccupied with attending to victims of the “unprovoked military […]
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Some soldiers of the Nigerian army have reportedly surrounded the home of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), in Umuahia, Abia state, brutalising journalists in the precess. The presence of troops in Kanu’s hometown is the second of such in three days as they had earlier clashed with his supporters on […]
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The Nigerian Army has reacted to reports of killing Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) members in Umuahaia, Abia state on Sunday. There had been reports that some soldiers from the 14 brigade of Nigerian army invaded Kanu’s residence and shot at pro-Biafra agitators. But the army refuted the claim, saying it was the IPOB supporters […]
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Following the Federal Government’s call for his bail to be revoked, Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), says anyone who comes to “biafraland” to arrest him will die there. Following his arrest by the Department of State Services (DSS), and 18 months incarceration, Binta Nyako, justice of a federal high court […]
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Pan-Igbo cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has subtly accused Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF) of bias in the case against Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The attorney-general had asked the federal high court, Abuja to rearrest Nnamdi Kanu for flouting his bail conditions. Reacting in a statement on Saturday, […]
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The Nigerian government on Friday demanded the revocation of the bail granted the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, in April. In a statement on Thursday signed by Salihu Isah, an aide to the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, the Nigerian government hinged its request on 11 grounds of arguments. […]
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The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to defeat him with argument in the “debate for freedom”, stressing that his group will never be violent. Kanu said this on Wednesday in Abia state while reacting to Buhari’s marching order to security agencies to tackle the excesses […]
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Niger Delta elder-statesman, Edwin Clark, has described Nigeria as one country that cannot break up, thereby calling for the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). In an interview with Vanguard News Clark said the IPOB leader should be locked away for declaring that gubernatorial election would not take place […]
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