Tag: IPOB

IPOB: Nnamdi Kanu replaces Monday’s sit-at-home with ‘Economic Empowerment Day’

Aminu Imam

The detained leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has replaced Monday’s cancelled sit-at-home directive in the South-East region with a new programme he called the “Economic Empowerment Day (EED)”. This was made known yesterday, in a statement issued by the IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful. Powerful said that the new directive by Kanu was a further confirmation of the total cancellation of all forms of sit-at-home in the entire South-East by the IPOB leader. He explained that during the economic empowerment exercise, people…

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South-East: IPOB accuses Simon Ekpa of working for DSS

Aminu Imam

The banned Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), has accused its factional leader, Simon Ekpa, of conspiring with the Department of State Services (DSS) to bring the group down. The group’s Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, stated this in a statement issued yesterday and made available to newsmen in Awka, the Anambra State capital. According to the statement, Ekpa was trained by the DSS and sent into IPOB as a mole in 2016. Since the arrest of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu in 2021, the Finland-based separatist leader has assumed leadership of IPOB but later declared…

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Nnamdi Kanu disowns Ekpa, orders end to sit-at-home

Aminu Imam

The leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB)Nnamdi Kanu, yesterday, declared an end to all sit-at-home order in the South-East region and any other proposed means aimed by the group at forcing the Government to release him from detention. Kanu made the declaration in a handwritten letter authorised to his special counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, to be read out to newsmen during a world press conference held in Enugu yesterday. The IPOB leader stated that anyone henceforth engaging in any sit-at-home in the region is no longer his disciple.…

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Enugu residents protest IPOB’s Monday’s sit-at-home

Aminu Imam

Residents of Enugu State yesterday trooped out and marched around the streets of the State capital in protest against the continued Monday sit-at-home directive issued by the proscribed in the State. This came as the State Government officials reportedly moved around parts of the state capital yesterday and sealed businesses that continued to obey IPOB’s sit-at-home Recall that the State Governor, Peter Mbah, on June 5 banned Monday’s sit-at-home in the State and urged residents to go about their legitimate duties. However, as early as 8 am yesterday, the residents…

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IPOB Sit-at-Home: ‘Resume your normal activities or face sanction’ – Enugu Govt. warns residents

Aminu Imam

The Enugu State Government has urged its residents to disregard the Monday sit-at-home order by the banned Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and go about their normal businesses. The State Government’s directive, which was issued by the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Chidiebere Onyia, and was contained in a statement he signed, threatened to sanction civil servants, schools, and markets that observe the illegal order.  According to the statement, “The Enugu State Government wishes to remind the good people and residents of the state that the ban on the…

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Army destroys IPOB hideout in Delta, recovers arms

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The Nigerian Army destroyed the hideout of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra in Delta state yesterday. The Asaba enclave was destroyed during a clearance operation carried out by troops from the 6 Division. According to Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier-General Onyema Nwachukwu, the members of the group engaged the troops in a fierce gun battle but were defeated. The statement read: “In a sustained effort to rid Nigeria of criminality, troops of 63 Brigade Garrison under the auspices of 6 Division, Nigerian Army and the Department of State…

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Overzealous IPOB’s lawyer defending Emefiele – DSS

Aminu Imam

The Department of State Services (DSS) on Tuesday said an overzealous and uninformed IPOB/ESN lawyer, Maxwell Okpara and other like-minded lawyers are the ones defending suspended CBN’s governor, Godwin Emefiele in court against its Director-General. Recall that sixty legal practitioners had on Monday approached the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory to begin committal proceedings against the Service. The lawyers said the suit was hinged on what they described as violation of multiple judgments and orders of court directing the agency to release the former CBN governor. However, the…

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Gani Adams reads Riot Act to Ekpa over planned sit-at-home protest in Lagos

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Self-acclaimed activist Gani Adams asked Finland-based IPOB leader, Simon Ekpa to be careful as South-West is not Biafra, adding that Ekpa’s Biafra agenda will not be entertained in Yoruba land. The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, has warned the factional leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Simon Ekpa not to make the mistake that led to the civil war in the country in the sixties. This is as he cautioned Ekpa against plans to stage a sit-at-home protest in Lagos State, and warned him to desist…

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Enugu: Stampede, as sit-at-home enforcers go wild

Aminu Imam

Chaos, fear, and anxiety ruled the streets of Enugu between the hours of eight and eleven, yesterday. Weirdly dressed men, all wielding guns of various types, had stormed parts of Abakpa, GRA, Coal Camp, New Market and old Park, shouting and threatening to kill if people did not run away to observed the Simon-Ekpa declared week-long lockdown. Eye witness accounts at Abakpa said that most traders at the community market had just settled down for the business of the day when, suddenly, the gun men clad in black trousers and…

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IPOB dismisses rumoured one-week sit-at-home in South-East

Aminu Imam

The banned Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) has once again refuted the claim that it declared a one-week sit-at-home exercise across the South-East region. The pro-Biafran group said the clarification became necessary because of the tension and panic the rumours have generated. The rumour of a one-week sit-at-home, starting from June 3 to June 9, purportedly declared by Simon Ekpa’s faction of the IPOB group, has been making the rounds across the region for some days now. Reacting to the development in a statement yesterday, the IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful,…

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