Troops Allegedly Kill Popular IPOB Commander In Imo, Recover Weapons
Security forces on Saturday morning killed an alleged Southeast Commander of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, six-armed militias and arrested several others during a deadly encounter in Imo State. The alleged commander identified as Ikonso, ABN TV gathered, was coordinator of the daredevil attacks on Imo State Police Command as well as the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) facility...
Ikpeazu Faults IPOB’s Strategy As He Admits Marginalisation, Inequality Against South East
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has said the issues of marginalisation and inequality raised by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, are valid. The governor, however, faulted the strategy being employed by IPOB, advising the secessionist group to explore dialogue and a peaceful way to seek redress. Ikpeazu, who stated this during a visit to the...
Take Your Military Operations To Terrorists, Bandits Overrunning The North, IPOB Tells FG
The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has advised the Federal Government take its military operations to the Northern Nigeria where it said terrorists and bandits are overrunning and not the South East. IPOB also challenged the Federal Government to publish the names of those it claimed to be paying in the Southeast to drop the agitation for Biafra republic. It...
Buhari’s Administration Stands Behind Pantami – Presidency
The Presidency may have ruled out the possibility of sacking the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, over his past comments in support of terrorist groups like Taliban and Al-Qaeda. In a statement on Thursday, the Presidency said Pantami’s ordeal in the hands of those calling for his sack was not about his past utterances but about his...
Speaker Gbajabiamila Rejects Call For Pantami’s Removal
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila on Wednesday shut down a motion sponsored by the Minority Leader, Hon Ndudi Elumelu, seeking the sack of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Mr Isa Pantami over his admittance of previous support for Al-Qaeda and Taliban. Elumelu (PDP-Delta) who raised a matter of privilege expressed grave concern over...
FG In Pain As UK Promises To Offer IPOB/MASSOB Members Asylum
The Federal Government on Tuesday expressed anger over a plan by the United Kingdom to offer asylum to “persecuted” members of the Indigenous People of Biafra and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, said the...
We’re Not Responsible For Zone 13 Police Zonal Command, Uzuakoli Police Station Attacks — IPOB
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has denied any involvement in the attacks of security agents, agencies and their formations in any part of South East and Nigeria in general. IPOB while describing the attack of Police Zone 13 as unfortunate said that it does not involve in any violent activity and therefore should not be associated with any violence...
Uzuakoli Police Station Attackers Reminding Us Pains Of Civil War, Ben Kalu Weeps
Member representing Bende Federal Constituency, Hon. Benjamin Kalu has expressed grief and sadness over the Monday marauding attack on Uzuakoli police station in his constituency in which police formation was torched and vehicles worth millions of Naira burnt. Reacting to the development in a statement, the House of Representatives Spokesperson stated that those who masterminded the attack are reminding the...
Journalist Who Exposed Ganduje’s Bribery Video Flees Home Over Death Threats
A journalist and publisher of Daily Nigerian, Jaafar Jaafar, who exposed a video in 2018 showing the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, stuffing dollars in his pockets, has fled his Kano and Abuja residences over some death threats he recently received. “The journalist is no longer staying at home. He is in danger as some unidentified persons, likely to be...
Attack On Uzuakoli Police Station, Barbaric – Senator Kalu
Former Governor of Abia State and Chief Whip of the Senate, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu has described the attack on Uzuakoli police station in Bende local government area of Abia state as unwarranted, uncivilized, and barbaric. Lamenting the ugly development, Kalu noted that the perpetrators of the ugly incident must be brought to book. While calling on residents of Bende LGA ...
