Tag: South-East

IPOB suspends sit-at-home order, to now hold on Kanu’s court days

Aminu Imam

…Insists on referendum The Directorate of States, of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), has suspended the Monday weekly ‘sit-at-home’ directive it ordered following the alleged Federal Government plan to punish its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, in detention through deliberate refusal to bring him to court for the continuation of his trials. IPOB, in an issued statement, said that it decided to suspend the Monday weekly Sit-at-home order because of the directive given by its leader, Kanu. It, however, said that henceforth, its directive will in the meantime be observed on…

Read More

Breaking: IPOB suspends weekly sit-at-home order

Aminu Imam

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has announced the suspension of the weekly sit-at-home exercise. The group had earlier announced a weekly Monday lockdown in the entire South-East as a measure to force the Federal Government to release its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who is currently in the custody of the Directorate of State Security, (DSS). Announcing the suspension on Radio Biafra, on Friday night, IPOB’s Head of the Directorate of State, Chika Edoziem, said they will henceforth declare sit-at-home whenever their leader would be making an appearance in court and…

Read More

Sit-at-home order: S/East children may stay home for 4 yrs over disruption of NECO exams – Lawyer

Aminu Imam

A legal luminary, Prince Christopher Muo, yesterday, said the disruption of the National Examination Council, NECO, mathematics examination in the South-East zone may keep students at their homes for the next four years. Muo said this to newsmen in Owerri, while reacting to the inability of students to write their NECO mathematics exams, as a result of the sit-at-home order declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), in the zone on Monday. He added the failure of the students to write their examinations could impede the educational development of…

Read More

‘South-East will be on lockdown every Monday till Nnamdi Kanu is freed’, IPOB declares

Aminu Imam

The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), says it will enforce a lockdown every Monday in the South-East region until its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is released. In a statement issued yesterday,  IPOB’s Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said the lockdown tagged ‘ghost Monday’ will also affect schools and marketplaces. He said the sit-at-home order will start on Monday, August 9, and remain in place until their requests are heeded. “We, the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, ably led by our great leader, Nnamdi Kanu, wish to announce…

Read More

FG set to commission link bridge connecting South-East to Cameroon

Aminu Imam

The Federal Government is set to commission the two-lane 1.5km bridge that connects South-East region to the Republic of Cameroon. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed this on Monday while inspecting the newly constructed 1.5km, two-lane bridge, named Mfum bridge, in Ekot-Mfum, Etung local government area of Cross River State, on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon. The minister said the construction of the new double lane bridge on the border will facilitate free trade between the two neighbouring countries. The Lagos–Mombassa trans-African highway, whose construction and…

Read More

“Nnamdi Kanu ordered us to bury our leader with 2,000 human heads, but we got only 30” — ESN commander

Aminu Imam

A 28-year-old Commander of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, the armed wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), accused of killing security agents as well as destroying private and government property in the South-East and South-South regions of the country, has revealed how his group went on a killing spree in the regions. The suspect, identified as Emeoyiri Uzorma Benjamin, alias Onye Army, was arrested by operatives of the Force Intelligence Response Team, (IRT), over his alleged involvement in the attacks and killing of security operatives and the destruction…

Read More

FG opts for dialogue over S/East insecurity crisis

Aminu Imam

The Federal Government has resolved to adopt the dialogue option in settling the escalating insecurity in the South-East region. This resolution was disclosed to State House Correspondents at the weekend by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari and his Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Ngige also said that he and Prof. Gambari further briefed the President on developments in the labour sector, especially the face-off between the Kaduna State government and the Nigerian Labour…

Read More

South-East govs disown IPOB, say secessionist group not speaking for Igbos

Aminu Imam

Governors in the south-eastern part of Nigeria, under the umbrella of South East Governors’ Forum, have declared that members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) are not speaking for the entire region on the call for secession. The governors who met on Saturday in Enugu State to figure out ways of curbing the current security crisis bedeviling the region condemned all secession agitation in the country. Chairman of the Forum, David Umahi who stated this while addressing newsmen shortly after the meeting, said they believe in one Nigeria. His…

Read More

Secession Agitations: South-East Governors, leaders disown IPOB

Ishaku Yohanna

…say ‘Nigeria remains united’ Ishaku Yohanna Leaders of the South-East, comprising governors, politicians, religious and traditional leaders rose from a meeting in Enugu and disowned the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and all pro-Biafra agitators, saying all the secessionist groups don’t speak for the region. The South-East leaders’ meeting was a follow-up to the consultation the presidential delegation, led by the Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi (retd), had with Igbo leaders on June 11, 2021 on insecurity in the region in particular and Nigeria in general. The South-East…

Read More

Second Niger Bridge to be opened February, 2022 – FG

Aminu Imam

The Federal Government has released a date for the opening to traffic of the 2nd Niger Bridge. The Managing Director and Chief Executive of National Inland Waterways, (NIWA), George Moghalu, announced that the 2nd Niger Bridge will be opened to traffic from February, 2022. Moghalu said this at the flag-off of a bathymetric survey of the Aghommili-Mmamu-Ezu-Nkisi-Niger River course in Anambra State. He said: “By February next year 2022, the new 2nd Niger Bridge will be opened for vehicular use. President Muhammadu Buhari had flagged off the construction of the…

Read More