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The Ebonyi State Police Command on Monday cautioned the prohibited Indigenous People of Biafra and political gatherings’ supporters against problematic acts amid President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the state on Tuesday. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Titus Lamorde, gave the notice in a...

Femi Fani-Kayode, on Sunday insisted that the Nigerian Army kidnapped the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu from his home. However, Fani-Kayode, who took to his Twitter handle described the actions of soldiers, who allegedly “abducted” Kanu as “heartless and...

Son to late Biafran warlord Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu, Emeka Ojukwu Jnr spoke with News Express Nigeria where he talked about his fathers death and the role of his widow, Bianca Ojukwu See excerpts of the interview below... Coming back to politics, for a minute, I remember that she was allied with...

Biafra Nations Youth League, BNYL, says grassroots referendum activities will commence Monday next week. BNYL Leader, Princewill Obuka, said the group will converge in Akwa Ibom State, to honour late Biafra Chief of General Staff and Vice President General Philip Effiong. According to Obuka...

The senator representing Abia South Senatorial District, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has denied the claim by the Federal Government that the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, is in his custody. The Federal Government had earlier replied to Abaribe’s application seeking to...

The Federal Government has replied to Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe’s application seeking to withdraw as one of the sureties for the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, describing the application as belated. The government, in its counter-affidavit and written address...

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has advised its members in Anambra State not to go out between 6pm November 17 to 6pm om November 18 in a bid to boycott the gubernatorial election in the state. In a statement by the IPOB spokesperson, Emma Powerful, the group alleged that the Nigeria...

An Igbo socio-activist group, the Igbos for Nigeria Movement [INM], says it has uncovered the person behind the recent Monkey Pox vaccine hoax with sole aim of causing disaffection between the Military and the residents. According to National President of the INM, Mazi Ifeanyi Igwe, the person...

Mild drama ensued in Court in Tuesday before the trial resumption of Nnamdi Kanu at the Federal High Court in Abuja. An IPOB member and co-accused, Benjamin Madubugwu, reacted angrily and sparked at security operatives after he was allegedly manhandled by them. The leader of the Indigenous...

Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered Senator Eyninnaya Abaribe, and two others standing as sureties for the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to explain the IPOB leader’s whereabout. The judge gave the senator Abaribe three...

Mr Nze Charles Ugwu, through his lawyer Simon Kanshio, has dragged the US Embassy in Nigeria before a Federal High Court in Abuja, for saying it does not view the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, as terrorists. The embassy’s spokesman, Russel Brooks, had said...

Abia state Police Command has said that lethal weapons, including petrol bombs and one double-barrel gun, were recovered during Sunday’s raid on the residence of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Anthony Ogbizi said this...

The Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign States of Biafra, MASSOB, has stated that the idea of an Igbo presidency is unrealistic in Nigeria Speaking with reporters in Aba, MASSOB’s National Director of Information, Sunny Okereafor, urged other Igbos to support the agitation of Biafra. He...

The trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu,over alleged fundamental rights violation was on Tuesday stalled following the absence of the respondent’s counsel in ECOWAS Court. Premium Times gathered that the lead counsel to the Nigerian government, Dayo Akpata, was...

Aisha Buhari, wife of the president, says Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), gained grounds while her husband was receiving medical attention in London. During the 103 days which Buhari spent treating an undisclosed ailment in the UK, Kanu addressed thousands of his...

Renowned political economist and Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Professor Pat Utomi, has dismissed declaration by the Nigerian Government that the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, under the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu are terrorists. Speaking at the Holy Cross Cathedral in...

Prince Emmanuel Kanu, the younger brother of the Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (PIOB Leader), Nnamdi Kanu, has alleged that soldiers have again invaded their Afaraukwu Umuahia family home and carted away some household items. Prince Kanu said that the invasion by the soldiers took...

Leader of Southeast caucus in the National Assembly, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has lamented that those who signed the bail bond for the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of proscribed IPOB, from detention are now in trouble. Abaribe also stressed that as a result of agitations by the...

The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has sympathised with the now-proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), stating that they had legitimate concerns and needed to have been drawn closer, before renaming the group, “Indigenous People of Brighter Nigeria (IPOBN)”. The monarch said this on...

Senior Special Assistant (Inter-governmental Affairs, Compliance and Electoral Process) to the governor of Enugu State, Vincent Egechukwu Obetta, has revealed how the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) played into the hands of the Federal Government by its hate-filled agitation. Mr. Obetta, a...