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We Don’t Need Another War To Actualise Biafra - Kanu

We Don’t Need Another War To Actualise Biafra – Emma Kanu

October 26, 2019 3:19 am

Younger brother of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Emma Kanu, has asserted that actualising an independent Biafra this time would not need or require fighting another civil war.

Speaking yesterday in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, while reacting to the chieftaincy title of The Africa (Light of Africa) conferred on his brother (Nnamdi) on Thursday at Amakwo in Orsu Council of Imo State by a group of traditional rulers in the state, Emma, who received the title on behalf of Nnamdi, said: “The struggle for Biafra is a non-violent movement that has gained …

Effiong's Son Reveals A Lot On Ojukwu, Effiong And Biafra

Effiong’s Son Reveals A Lot On Ojukwu, Effiong And Biafra

October 26, 2019 12:58 am

Phillip Effiong is a Professor of Drama at Michigan State University, United States of America, USA. His father, Gen Phillip Effiong was the second-in-command to Chukwuemeka Ojukwu during the civil war. In an encounter with him during a visit to Nigeria, he reminisces on the war and the post- war Nigeria, the agitations for resuscitation of Biafra, the historic and international dimensions of the war, why the full story of Biafra is yet to be told and how peace and unity in Nigeria can be attained among other related issues. He spoke with CHIDI OBINECHE.

In retrospect, how did Nigeria …

All We Want Is Biafra, Not Igbo Presidency - Cleric Udeh

All We Want Is Biafra, Not Igbo Presidency – Cleric Udeh

October 24, 2019 2:06 am

Bishop Abraham Chris Udeh of Mount Zion Faith Global Liberation Ministries Inc. a.k.a By Fire By Fire, Nnewi, Anambra, yesterday, prophesized the actualization of  Biafra’s actualization. He, however, lamented that the project was being frustrated by the Hausa-Fulani oligarchy.

Bishop Udeh who addressed journalists, at his church auditorium said Igbo should reject the option of a president of Igbo extraction, and rather face the actualization of a sovereign State of Biafran with one mind.

He said he saw in the spiritual realm that there was an Hausa-Fulani agenda to allow an Igboman to be elected president in 2023, but …

Senator Abaribe Speaks On Ndigbo, Kanu, Biafra and Nigeria

Senator Abaribe Speaks On Ndigbo, Kanu, Biafra and Nigeria

October 12, 2019 3:19 am

Speech by; Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe in Mississipi, USA.

“What I will say here today may come as a surprise to many of you. For those that I will rub the wrong way, I apologize in advance. However, “Ndigbo si na owu onye nke mmadu na ghu ya ahu na agbata ukwu”. If I fail to say the truth about the existential challenges that we face today in our country Nigeria, and how we believe we should face them, then I would not be true to myself and to you who sent me to represent you in the red chamber.
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Kanu unveils latest strategy for the restoration of Biafra

July 28, 2019 10:30 am

The Supreme Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has just declared his latest master strategy as regards the restoration of the sovereign state of Biafra, and to prevent what he described as, “Fulani terror invasion” in Biafra land. This latest approach, Africa Daily News, New York gathered was developed not quite long when Kanu was visiting virtually all the states in the United States to further seek international support for Biafra’s restoration.

It is on record that the Fulani herdsmen have been looking for an avenue to infiltrate the South-East zone, which is regarded as the …

Biafra: Diaspora supporters solidly behind IPOB leader

Biafra: Diaspora supporters solidly behind IPOB leader

June 18, 2019 10:31 am

Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has continued to garner more international support in his foreign tour targeted at restoring the republic of Biafra.

IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, in a statement on Tuesday in Awka, said Biafrans across the west coast of the USA had publicly pledged their moral and material support for Biafra restoration.

He said many more IPOB family members, influential individuals and diaspora organisations were queuing up to host their leader in various cities across the United States.

He revealed that Kanu would visit Chicago to meet Biafrans in …

Nigeria, Biafra, and the injustice

Nigeria, Biafra, And The Injustice

May 29, 2019 9:15 pm

By MarkAnthony Ujunwa Nze

“You must clear the enemy from Obinze in 24 hours or submit your resignation from the army”.

– General C. Odumegwu Ojukwu to Lt. Col. Ogbugo Kalu.

A few hours later, Lt. Col. Kalu valiantly ordered a heavy counter attack with the Biafran forces using the Ogbunigwe mine and victoriously regained 80% of the ground and halted the Nigerian battalions that advanced towards Owerri from Port Harcourt.

Only Col. E.A. Etuk’s Nigeria 16th Division could withstand the heavy, and strategic bombardment that Lt. Col. Kalu championed with nearly 60,000 rounds of ammunition, 300 mortars, 200 …

Nigeria’ll divide when South-South joins Biafra – Okowa

April 26, 2019 3:50 am

The Delta State Governor, Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa, Thursday said Nigeria as a country will divide the very day the South-South region decided to join struggle for the actualisation of Biafra Republic.

“Nigeria will divide the very day the South-South agrees to join Biafra,” Governor Okowa declared at the Niger Delta Peace and Security Summit held in Koko, Warri North Local Government Area.

Governor Okowa, who was represented by his Executive Assistant/Directorate of Orientation, Barr. Eugene. A. Uzum, said some parts of Nigeria were being oppressed just as he cautioned that peace may continue to elude us as a people.

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Why Biafra fell – Prof. Uzodinma Nwala

April 20, 2019 1:24 pm

“We thought that the defeat of Biafra was God telling us no, you don’t need Biafra; you need Nigeria. But that was a wrong meaning to what happened. We lost the war, not because God wanted us to go back to Nigeria.

We lost the war for obvious reasons, which I found when I went to New York in 1973 for my post-graduate work. I spent days and time at the United Nations and I was searching for an answer to the question, why Biafra fell. At the end of those days of working in the United Nations and other …

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