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Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer Reacts To Claims IPOB Leader Was Given Document To Sign As Condition Of His Freedom

15Oct

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Judiciary, News, Nigeria

Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer Reacts To Claims IPOB Leader Was Given Document To Sign As Condition Of His Freedom

Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lead counsel for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has debunked a claim making the rounds on social media that his client was given a document to sign as a condition of his freedom. A story had circulated on Twitter on Thursday that the Nigerian government provided a document for the separatist leader to sign, but that he rejected it. The IPOB leader's lawyer, however, described it as fake news meant to create panic among pro-Biafra agitators. Ejiofor disclosed this in a statement of the routine visit to Kanu in the detention of the Department of State Services (DSS) on Thursday. Read Also: Buhari Wasting Resources On Fighter Jets That’ll Be Used To Destroy Nigeria – Father Mbaka Warns He said Kanu also found the rumour la...

Nigeria’s Electoral Body, INEC Rules Out Dialogue With IPOB, ESN

15Oct

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Biafra, Elections, News

Nigeria’s Electoral Body, INEC Rules Out Dialogue With IPOB, ESN

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has ruled out the possibility of engaging the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and the Eastern Security Network, ESN ahead of the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State. The commission noted that it wouldn’t go out of its way to engage IPOB and ESN that had been outlawed by the Muhammadu Buhari regime. The INEC spokesman, Festus Okoye, made this known during an interview with Arise TV on Thursday, noting that the commission had been engaging stakeholders including security agencies, civil society organizations and other relevant bodies. “We recognize political parties, we recognize the people of Anambra State, we recognize civil society groups and organizations, we recognize traditional institutions and the clergy. So...

Malami Asks Court For More Time To File Processes In Kanu’s Suit

14Oct

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Biafra, News, Nigeria

Malami Asks Court For More Time To File Processes In Kanu’s Suit

The federal government and the attorney-general of the federation (AGF) have asked the high court of Abia state for an extension of time to enable them file processes in the suit instituted by Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), had filed a suit marked HIH/FR14/2021 against the federal government of Nigeria, attorney-general of the federation, chief of army staff, inspector-general of police, director-general of the Department of State Services and three others for allegedly violating his fundamental human rights. Kanu, through his lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, asked the court to compel the respondents to pay him N5 billion in damages as monetary compensation for the “physical, mental, emotional, psychological and other damages” he allegedly suf...

Comply With IPOB Sit-At-Home In The North & Lose Your Shops – Arewa Warns

5Oct

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Biafra, News, Nigeria

Comply With IPOB Sit-At-Home In The North & Lose Your Shops – Arewa Warns

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum has rejected the recent call by the Indigenous People Of Biafra on the Middle Belt people to join its sit-at-home campaign, warning that no section of the north should be a party to “a deliberate, politically-motivated plan to undermine or worsen the nation’s current security challenges.” In a statement by the group’s National President, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, in Kaduna on Monday, the AYCF said, “The North has come a long way in understanding the use of constitutional and democratic means of channelling legitimate grievances, and cannot, therefore, be a party to any undemocratic move”. The AYCF further noted that it appears that the governors of the South-East are satisfied with the activities of IPOB. The group stated, “We hope they will co...

Nnamdi Kanu Files Suit Against Kenya Over Extradition to Nigeria

16Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Biafra, Judiciary, News, Nigeria

Nnamdi Kanu Files Suit Against Kenya Over Extradition to Nigeria

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has sued Kenya over his extradition to Nigeria. The pro-Biafra activist’s brother, Kingsley Kanunta, sued on his behalf, according to court papers obtained by our correspondent In his petition presented by Luchiri and Company Advocates, Kanu argued that his arrest in Kenya and subsequent extradition to Nigeria in June were unconstitutional. Those named as respondents are Kenya’s Interior CS, Director of Immigration, Director of Criminal Investigations, OCPD Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, and the Attorney General. Nigerian officials on June 29 claimed Kanu was brought back to face trial after he jumped bail and went on the run in 2017. The petition revealed that Kanu was in Kenya to seek medical atte...

IPOB Declares War on Hoodlums Enforcing Sit-at-home on Mondays

15Sep

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Biafra, News

IPOB Declares War on Hoodlums Enforcing Sit-at-home on Mondays

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, said it has declared war on anybody found enforcing sit-at-home order, on Mondays. Describing such people as saboteurs, the pro-Biafra group added that the weekly Monday sit-at-home has been suspended. In a statement, Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Comrade Emma Powerful, while reacting to several complaints on the activities of hoodlums who are believed to be members of IPOB, harassing residents every Monday, warned that such people will face the wrath of IPOB. “If we catch anybody disturbing the peace of Biafrans or residents in Biafra land under the guise of enforcing non-existent sit-at-home order, such a person regrets his actions because he will receive the reward of traitors. “IPOB is a responsible organization with reasoning...

South East Loses ₦10 Billion Every Sit-At-Home Day – Umahi

14Sep

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Biafra, News, Nigeria

South East Loses ₦10 Billion Every Sit-At-Home Day – Umahi

Chairman, South East Governors forum and Governor of Ebonyi state, Chief Dave Umahi on Sunday evening said the zone loses over N10 billion in every sit-at-home the people of the region observe. Since the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was arrested, the organisation has declared every Monday sit-at-home until he is released. Umahi said in every of the sit-at-home, the zone lost over N10 billion and expressed dismay that the order was adversely affecting the economy of the region. The governor spoke in Abakaliki, the state capital during a State Dinner in honour of the former Chief of Army Staff and Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Republic of Benin, Tukur Buratai. He noted that the state would not subscribe to incessant calls for sit-at-home, insist...

DSS Stopped American Lawyer, Others From Visiting Kanu —Counsel

3Sep

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Biafra, Nigeria, Security, United States of America

DSS Stopped American Lawyer, Others From Visiting Kanu —Counsel

Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Lead Counsel for the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has said that the Department of State Services stopped the detainee from seeing his lawyers on Thursday. Ejiofor, in a statement on Friday, said the secret police denied himself and other lawyers including “IPOB’s Attorney in the United States, Bruce Fein”, from meeting with Kanu. He described the denial as a violation of the order of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja which ordered that the DSS should allow the lawyers to visit Kanu twice a week. The lawyer had previously alleged maltreatment by the DSS during the routine visits. See Also: IPOB Members Arrested During Meeting in Ghana Ejiofor’s statement on Friday was titled, ‘Update On Yesterday’s Visit Being 2nd Day Of...

IPOB Members Arrested During Meeting in Ghana

30Aug

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

IPOB Members Arrested During Meeting in Ghana

The Police in Ghana have allegedly arrested some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, while meeting in Accra, the Ghanaian capital. The police, it was learnt stormed the venue of IPOB’s monthly meeting around Mallam Junction in Accra on Sunday, arresting an undisclosed number of members of the group. Read Also: South-East Govs, Elite Can’t Decide Igbo’s Fate, IPOB Replies Umahi The reason for the action was not disclosed. In a video obtained by SaharaReporters, the arrested members were seen singing a pro-Biafra solidarity song. They were subsequently taken to a police station in Accra where they were profiled. Recall that the Nigerian government had in 2017 proscribed IPOB. The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN); and the then Solic...

Journalist Our Partners In Progress – IPOB Rules Out Claims of Attacking Reporters

29Aug

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Journalist Our Partners In Progress – IPOB Rules Out Claims of Attacking Reporters

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has affirmed that it has no agenda to attack journalists in the South-East region. The group in a statement issued by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, described journalists as partners in progress. The statement read, “The attention of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been drawn to the fallacious statement credited to one Petrus Obi, against IPOB concerning the Nigerian Union of Journalists in the South East. Read Also: South-East Govs, Elite Can’t Decide Igbo’s Fate, IPOB Replies Umahi “We want to make it clear that IPOB has nothing against NUJ and will support and defend NUJ because they have been on the side of truth regarding the atrocities of Fulani herdsmen, bandits and terroris...