Enugu residents partially comply with IPOB’s sit at home order (Guardian)

Enugu State residents Thursday partially observed the sit at home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to protest and mark its “holy day” in deference to those that have lost their lives to the struggle.

IPOB is pushing for an independent state for the Igbo-dominated southeastern Nigeria.

The region was locked in a civil war with Nigeria for about 30 months starting from 1967 after late Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, then a colonel in the Nigerian Army, declared an independent Biafra.

But the fight for Biafra hasn’t ceased to exist as the campaigners for the new country formed a group known as IPOB led by Nnamdi Kanu. Read more