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We Will Support Them To Achieve Biafra – Northern Elders Spokesman, Ango Abdullahi A former Vice-Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, has declared that he has freedom of speech and can utter anything he likes. He said this in an interview with the Punch over his backing of the ultimatum by Arewa youths that Igbos should leave the North on or before October 1, 2017. Abdullahi, who is the spokesperson for the Northern Elders Forum, insists Nigeria has been divided for a long time and that his comment did not just cause that. “The country had already been polarised. It is already polarised. Well, maybe it added another dimension to the polarisation but the country had been polarised. As far as I am concerned, the country has been polarised for a long time. “Am I too important not to be arrested if I have committed an offence? If I have committed a crime; of course, why not? It is also an opinion; some people may wish me dead

Amnesty International wants 9 Nigerian military commanders probed Amnesty International has called on the federal government to investigate the nine military commanders it indicted in its report for human rights abuses in Nigeria. Responding to the summary of the report by a the Nigerian military panel investigating the allegations of human rights violations, the Director of Amnesty International Nigeria, Osai Ojigho, said thursday in a statement that the military panel was not independent and impartial as recommended by the human rights body. The group, however, welcomed the panel’s recommendation that there should be a Presidential Commission of Inquiry into these allegations of horrific war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the North-east. The Media Manager of Amnesty International, Isa Sanusi, quoted Ojigho as also saying that the promise made by President Muhammadu Buhari to conduct independent investigation into the allegations of human rights violatio

WWE Staff Forced To Shoot Aggressive Wrestler After Child Climbs Into Steel Cage INDIANAPOLIS—Saying they were left with no other choice given the imminent peril of the situation, World Wrestling Entertainment officials confirmed they were forced to kill one of their own stars Friday when a 7-year-old boy wandered into the steel cage enclosure of an aggressive wrestler. Beloved two-time WWE champion Big Show was reportedly shot dead after the emergency response team at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum made a split-second decision to take out the nearly 400-pound dominant male wrestler, who is said to have appeared aggravated and hostile, causing those present to fear for the small child’s safety. “Last night, after determining he posed a clear threat to a young boy who had entered the steel cage, we chose to end the life of one of our wrestlers,” said WWE spokesperson Chris Bellitti, who added that the security guards who opened fire had followed protocol, assessing the body

Any dialogue with Nigerian Government without documented date for referendum is an exercise in futility - IPOB Warns Igbo Elders The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on Thursday, condemned the meeting of Igbo landers with the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, describing it as ‘a gathering of a few compromised political jobbers from core Igbo states of Biafraland’. IPOB noted that its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, has made it abundantly clear that any discussion or dialogue with the Nigerian Government that did not include an agreement on a referendum date to determine the issue of Biafra would be considered an exercise in futility. Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Emma Powerful, in a statement, said that IPOB viewed the meeting with certain Igbo politicians who were sympathetic to APC as an insult to the sensibilities of Biafrans all over the world, especially the memory of the dead and injured. The statement read in part: “This meeting we understand was convened at the instigatio

THE PLANNED IMPOSITION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY IN BIAFRALAND WILL RESULT IN A WAR Without doubt, the 30TH May 2017 sit-at-home in commemoration of the Biafra Heroes Day has shown the formidability of the Indigenous People of Biafra led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in the quest for the restoration of the sovereign state of Biafra. The unity and total compliance shown on that day by the people of Biafra has jolted every opposition to the restoration of Biafra and they have geared into nefarious plans which are to begin with the imposition of state of emergency and martial law in Biafra land. I have always wondered why most of the Hausa/Fulani who are opportune to have a formal education and supposedly know how to write and comprehend what is written will be reasoning alike with those of them moving around with herds of cattle whose thoughts are towards violent and the shedding of blood. The piece titled “To resolve the Biafra problem, Nigeria needs strategy, a big stick and carrots, by Fulan Nas

Ohanaeze Self determination inevitable –Nwodo President  General of Igbo apex socio-political body,  Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, has hinged growing agitation of youths from the region across the country on what he called persistent injustice and ill-treatment of the South East and its people. He said such poor and bias treatment arose from the current warp structure and deliberate policy of neglect of the zone. Nwodo, a former minister of Information, spoke on a Channels Television talkshow where he contended that the various  restiveness across the country was indication of an unworkable political system that should be revisited. The Ohanaeze boss decried what he described as  the rising spread of falsehood and hate against Ndigbo in the country. An evidence of this claim, he said could be seen in the quantum killing of many Igbo and looting of their property across the country. Nwodo lamented that even when these killings were done in the full glare of t

COALITION OF CIVIL SOCIETIES OF EASTERN REGION MEET IN ENUGU COMMUNIQUE OF A MEETING OF THE IGBO CIVIL SOCIETY COALITION HELD IN ENUGU ON JUNE 10, 2017 The Igbo Civil society Coalition comprising civil society organizations and activists from the Igbo nation met in Enugu, today, June 10, 2017 to appraise the current political developments in the nation. After a five hour brain storming session, the coalition resolved as follows: 1. To henceforth advance the fundamental human rights of Ndigbo and other like minded peoples. 2. That the coalition condemns in no uncertain terms, the ultimatum issued Ndi-Igbo by the Coalition of Arewa Youths and endorsed by Northern Elders Forum to leave the Northern Nigeria on or before October 1, 2017 and the threat of violence accompanying that ultimatum; but at the same time welcomes it whole heartedly as one of the greatest things that ever happened to the Igbo nation. The coalition, therefore, appeals to Ndi-Igbo in the North not to repe

THE IGBOS AND YORUBAS,  A CASE FOR SOUTHERN UNITY. - Novus Oriens "Power is like a shadow. It resides exactly where men who are under its control think it resides" The above is true with regards to the situation of Southerners in the Nigerian experiment. We think the Fulanis are the ones that have been holding power and because we think and believe so, it actually look so. Because of this assumed knowledge, we hand over our destinies, our future and those of our children to a people who are not above 11 million, have little or no education and contribute little or nothing to the national pulse. What if I told you that the real power rests in the South and with southerners but that the mutual distrust and foolish superiority contest between Igbos and Yorubas is the biggest obstacle to wielding this power? This senseless feud between these two Southern giants is also the biggest enabler and promoter of the fulani Oligarchy. The southern part of Nigeria owns the oil

BIAFRA Quit Notice On Igbos: Lack Of Arrests Show Nigerians Are Not Equal – Uranta Niger Delta activist, Tony Uranta, has condemned the ultimatum by Arewa youths that Igbos should vacate the region within three months. He lamented that lack of arrests one week after the threat was issued had confirmed that some Nigerians were bigger than others. Uranta said this yesterday during the commemoration of the June 12 election anniversary which was organised by the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) in Lagos. His words “I was concerned when I heard the threat issued by northerners against Igbo to leave the North because it shows that it is the lack of knowledge that makes us do things that would hurt us. “The fact that the Federal Government is dragging its feet in arresting those who issued the threat is an indication that some people are better than others and it does not speak well.” In his speech, the guest lecturer, Dr. Chiedozie Okoro, warned that delay in restructurin

Exposing Prof Ango Abdullahi’s Lies About Nigeria ―By Annkio Briggs RESPONSE TO PROF. ANGO ABDULLAHI’s CLAIMS  Southern Protectorate, Southern Nigeria And Or Niger Delta Have Always Sustained Herself Without Depending On The North For Any Economic Assistance, From Time Immemorial. Verifiable Sources of Records with Facts and Figures Part 1 (Pre-amalgamation Era Records, from 1900 – 1913) It is a fact that Southern Nigeria was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria formed in 1900 from the union of the Niger Coast Protectorate (NCP) with territories chartered by the Royal Niger Company (RNC) below Lokoja on the Niger River.  Lagos was added in 1906, and the territory was officially renamed the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. In 1914 Southern Nigeria Protectorate (SNP) was joined with Northern Nigeria Protectorate (NNP) to form the single colony of Nigeria. ‘The unification was done for economic reasons rather than political – Nort