Tag: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA
DSS arrests former APGA chairman, Victor Umeh, over support for Biafra
The Department of State Services (DSS) Thursday arrested former National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and its candidate for the Anambra...
Nnamdi Kanu: Court dismisses government’s application for witnesses to wear masks
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday dismissed an application filed by the Federal Government seeking leave for its witnesses to wear...
Treason: Court denies Nnamdi Kanu, two others bail
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday refused to give bail to leader of the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi...
Court sends Nnamdi Kanu to Kuje prison
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja Wednesday ordered that leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, be remanded in prison.
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Judge withdraws from trial of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu
Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court on Wednesday excused himself from hearing the treason charges brought against leader of the separatist Indigenous...
Magistrate Court strikes out case against Nnamdi Kanu
A Magistrate Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday struck out all suits filed against the director of Radio Biafra and founder of the Indigenous...
Biafra idea cannot be destroyed -Soyinka
Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has warned the government against any harsh crackdown on pro-Biafra activists in an interview broadcast Wednesday after an upsurge...
Uwazuruike renames MASSOB over escalating violent protests
The leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has renamed the group Biafra Independent...
Police didn’t kill any pro-Biafra protester – IGP Arase
The Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has denied reports that his men killed members of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of...
Wike bans pro-Biafra protest in Rivers as police take on demonstrators
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday banned protests by “some unauthorised group” calling for the release of the director of outlawed Radio Biafra,...