The police in Imo on Friday arrested some women protesting over the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for allegedly conducting an unlawful assembly. Some of the women, mostly of middle age and…
Anxiety as IPOB resumes call for election boycott (Nation)
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Friday resumed the call for election boycott in the Southeast ahead of the 2019 general elections. The proscribed group insisted on a referendum and sovereign state of Biafra as part of conditions to end…
Igbos want restructuring, not Presidency, says Nwabueze (ThisDay)
Foremost constitutional lawyer, Professor Ben Nwabueze has stated that the Igbos were not interested in the presidency of Nigeria, but to have the country restructured. Nwabueze met with the leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)…
IPOB demands release of Dasuki, El-Zakzaky (SUN)
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has called on International Criminal Court (ICC), in the Hague, to prevail on President Muhammadu Buhari to obey court judgements and orders by releasing the former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki and…
How Ekiti gov election vindicates our no election stance — IPOB (Vanguard)
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said that the opposition would lose the 2019 general elections, going by what it described as the “charade” that characterised last Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State. IPOB said that the coalition of…
DSS arrests Senator Abaribe (ThisDay)
The Department of State Security has arrested the lawmaker representing Abia-South Senatorial District, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe. According to his Special Adviser, Mr. Nwokoma Okorie, Senator Abaribe was picked up on Friday morning at his barber’s shop in the Apo area…
Sit-at-home: Total compliance in Onitsha as markets, banks shut (SUN)
Commercial activities and vehicular movements were paralysed in Onitsha, Anambra State, on Wednesday, in compliance with the sit-at-home order declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to honour fallen heroes who died in the struggle for the South East.…
Sit-at-home: Marginalisation of Ndigbo saddening, but we’re not with IPOB—Umahi (Vanguard)
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State yesterday explained that even though the South East geopolitical zone was not happy with the way and manner it was being marginalised in the affairs of the nation, he does not agree with the…
IPOB vows to stop Igbo summit (SUN)
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has, again, vowed that Ohanaeze Ndigbo’s proposed summit slated for May 21 in Awka, the Anambra State capital, will not hold. The group warned that anybody who attends the summit will not go unpunished…
Threat to disrupt restructuring summit: Ohanaeze dares IPOB (SUN)
The apex Igbo group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has warned the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) against carrying out its threat to disrupt the planned summit on restructuring by the umbrella socio-cultural organisation. The Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Mr Uche Okwukwu,…
