According to Ezenekwe, someone who claimed to be an operative of the DSS called him, asking him to report at the Owerri, Imo State office of the Service
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May the Lord of Hosts forgive Nigeria for what she has done to so many of her ethnic nationalities and her own sons and daughters
Discharging the accused persons on Friday, the Magistrate, Andrew Jaja, said treasonable felony was a capital offence, punishable by death
The point is that there is no political remedy for Biafra’s suffering—like an abused wife in a forced marriage—short of self-determination to regain its sovereignty that was illegally extinguished by the British and never surrendered after decolonization
A better way to address the problem of Ndigbo is their addressing their internal differences and anti-people leadership orientations
They rule our nation with an iron fist: killing, maiming, robbing, destroying, detaining and shaming all those that dare to oppose them. Not even the women and children are safe from their wicked vice and relentless torment and perfidy
I wonder whether the small handful of pitiful yet identifiable key leaders from the South that joined forces with Buhari, supported him during last year’s election and drank deep from his ‘mai chanji magic potion’ poisoned chalice have read what these two evil men wrote and what those that share their views and disposition have to say?
Uche Okelue, a witness, said the fracas broke out after a police team threw teargas at the protesters who were demanding for the independence of Biafra, in an effort to disperse them
According to the complaint, the records show that the said 50 unidentified persons, whose dead bodies the DSS had exhumed but hidden for security reasons, were murdered by IPOB with the use of chemicals and other dangerous instruments against the Rome Statute.
MASSOB, through its Director of Information, Samuel Edeson, said this in a statement in Enugu on Thursday
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi charged along with Kanu were also denied bail.
Delivering ruling, Justice John Tsoho held that the applicants failed to meet up with the requirements to be admitted on bail
Justice Adeniyi Ademola, who gave the order, said it was illegal for the Department of State Services to still be holding Kanu after an order of the court to free him
Kalu is a social democrat who would want the rights of everybody and group to be respected as far as such a person or group respects the right of others. This is why he said that the authorities have a right to protect the Biafra protesters, as far as they are non-violent, instead of maligning them
Led by its Eze Igbo, Eze Pampas Wahiwe, the Igbos in Niger State said they have nothing to do with the proponents of the idea, including a Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu
According to the group in a press statement signed by the President of the Association, Chief Elvis Chukwu, and made available to our correspondent: “Our attention has been drawn to a meeting held by the governors of the five south eastern states for the purpose of finding a solution to the agitation by a section of Igbo youths for the quest for the actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra
But MASSOB in a statement on Sunday described Mbaka’s comments as insensitive and unguided.
The Director of Information of a faction of MASSOB, Uchenna Madu, said the condemnation of the struggle was “selfish and shameful. How can a revered Igbo clergy man descend so low in making such a condemnable statement few days after President’s Buhari’s wife visited him
Built into the fabric of the right to choose is also the right to make mistakes and so, across Africa at this moment, in Nigeria, Tanzania, Cote d’Ivoire, Burundi, Guinea Conakry, Rwanda, the lessons are being driven home, as elections are being held or have been held or will be held, that even as democracy spreads within the continent, the tension between stabilization and consolidation, trade offs and efficiency, pessimism and optimism, ethnocentrism and nationalism, remains a major concern.
He was compulsorily retired from the Army in 1974
The Anambra State House of Assembly on Thursday passed a bill changing the name of the state-owned university at Uli to Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu University.
In the suit filed at the Federal High Court, Owerri, Imo State, BHRI is seeking several orders, among which is to compel the Federal Government to recognise the rights of the people of Biafraland to self-determination