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The Indigenous People of Biafra on Tuesday appraised the level of compliance with its sit-at-home order and described it as a huge success. A statement made available to Punch in Awka, the Anambra State capital, by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said apart from Nigeria...

As today marks the 50th Anniversary of the end of the Biafra War in Nigeria, below is a throwback photo of the leader of the breakaway Republic of Biafra, Colonel Odumegwu Emeka Ojukwu popularly known as 'Ikemba' reading a speech as he declared the independence of Biafra on May 30th, 1967...

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has declared that the “tyrannical government” of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC, must be stopped. Speaking through the spokesperson of IPOB, Emma Powerful, the incarcerated agitator on Friday...

Memories of the Nigeria/Biafra war was yesterday, re-enacted in Owerri, as the Consultant to the Federal Ministry of Defence, Professor Bala Jack Yakubu, displayed some deadly weapons manufactured by Biafran engineers. According to Professor Yakubu, “all the weapons were recovered from the war...

Amnesty International has accused the Nigerian security forces, led by the military, of embarking on a chilling campaign of extrajudicial executions and violence resulting in the deaths of at least 150 peaceful pro-Biafra protesters in the south east of the country. The international agency...

The Movement for the Actialization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Biafra Independent Movement (BIM) yesterday faulted President Muhammadu Buhari for recognising only the South-East geo-political zone as states canvasing Biafra’s independence. While the group said it was a good...

The Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of witch-hunting pro-Biafra agitators while the country continues to depreciate. The group said Nigeria will soon be deleted in order to give way for the emergence of Biafra...

Founder of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Ralph Uwazuruike has said that MASSOB would celebrate its 17 years of non-violent agitation for independence of Biafra in all the senatorial districts across the Biafra land, which include South-East and Niger...

The leadership of the new pro Biafra group, the Reformed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has named a new leader for the organization and listed eminent personalities who are expected to dialogue with the Nigerian government over the agitation for an independent state of Biafra. In a...

The crisis rocking the Indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB, on Thursday, took a new twist with the emergence of a third faction claiming to be the authentic group representing the organization. The new group, which parades itself as the Reformed Indigenous People of Biafra; RE-IPOB, disclosed...

A faction of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, identified as The Re-branded Indigenous People of Biafra, TRIOPOB, has broken out of the main group over alleged inflexible and defeatist position of IPOB led by Nnamdi Kanu, currently in detention. Spokesperson of the splinter group, Chima...

The Federal Government is reportedly planning to set up a presidential committee to look into the activities of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The committee which would comprise mostly retired military...

Last week, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, called on the federal government of Nigeria and British Prime Minister, David Cameron to organize a referendum with the slogan; ‘BIAFREXIT’ for the secession of the south-east region into the Republic of Biafra. In a quick reaction to this...