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Biafra: Court discharges Nnamdi Kanu Embattled Director of Radio Biafra and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu was on Wednesday discharged by a Chief Magistrate Court in Wise 2, Abuja led by Shuaibu Usman of all counts of criminal conspiracy and ownership of an unlawful society brought against him by the federal government. Delivering the verdict after the federal government had dropped the charges brought against Kanu, the judge ruled that, “The accused person is hereby discharged and the case struck out.” The Department of State Services (DSS) had withdrawn the case from the Chief Magistrate Court so as to pursue the case in a higher court, which has jurisdiction to entertain charges bordering on terrorism. Source daily post

Kanu must lead negotiation with FG – Igbo groups insist No fewer than 42 South-East and South-South groups met on Wednesday in Enugu insisting on the release of detained Biafra activist, Nnamdi Kanu. The groups met to finalize plans for their mega rallies towards restructuring Nigeria along the lines of true federalism. According to them, the rallies earlier planned to hold within 13 cities and towns in the South East, would now hold in 20 cities and towns within the two zones. Speaking after the meeting at the Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, secretariat in Enugu, the convener of the meeting and founder of IYM, Evang. Elliot Uko said the peaceful marches for true federalism had become pertinent, because Nigeria was over heated due principally to the unitary system of administration, the military imposed on the country in 1966. He said, “for 49 years, Nigeria has been boiling consistently, sometimes silently seething with rage inside; sometimes the lava hots up and the hot c

BREAKING: Biafran supporters ignore APC, begin protest in Lagos (PHOTOS) In spite of being warned by the All Progressives Congress against protesting in Lagos, pro-Biafrans are presently marching on the streets of the commercial state. The Lagos chapter of the APC had on Tuesday, issued a warning to the protesters against causing crisis in the state by carrying out protests. In defiance of the warning, the pro-Biafrans are protesting along Alaba-Ojo, while demanding the release of the director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. Another protest is reportedly building up in the Victoria Island axis of the state. See below, some photos from the protest.  Source; y nija online...

There was palpable fear in Kaduna on Tuesday following a clash between the Islamic Movement of Nigeria and security operatives in Tudun Wada, Kaduna the state capital. A resident alleged that members of the Shiite sect were preparing for a protest against the arrest of their leader Sheik Ibraheem El zakzaky by the military when police operatives swooped on them in Tudun Wada area. He added that the sect later regrouped at Tudun Nupawa area where many of them were said to have engaged the police in a shootout, leading to injuries on both sides, while about three persons were feared dead. A source at the police clinic along Independence Way Kaduna also hinted that no less than four police officers were brought in injured, with one in critical condition. This is happening as the Minister of interior, Abdulrahman Danbazau led the Federal Government delegation to Kaduna State to see things for themselves. The Minister also held a closed door meeting with the state Governor,

Biafra will be realized in 2015 – Enugu prophet By  Emmanuel Uzodinma  on December 15, 2015 Email Address An acclaimed man of God based in Enugu, Prophet Anthony Nwoko has declared that the Independent Biafra nation would be realized this year, 2015. Nwoko, who said he was revealing a prophetic message, told journalists that the present protests and agitations for an Independent state of Biafra was an act of God as a way of salvaging the Igbo race. Talking to a select group of journalists in Enugu, the Prophet described the presently detained Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, leader and Director of Radio Biafra, Mr Nnamdi Kanu, as the actual Igbo/Biafra leader that would emancipate the Igbos in the Biafra struggle.He said the revelation was given to him by God and that no man can stop it. In the said prophesy, Nwoko lambasted former MASSOB leader, Chief Ralph Uwazurike for failing to do the right things for Biafra, stressing that God had now put Kanu in place t

GOOD LUCK JONATHAN WAS AN EXCEPTIONAL PRESIDENT.  By Femi Aribisala I WALKED into the east wing of The Palms shopping mall in Lekki, Lagos (popularly referred to as Shoprite); only to be buttoned-holed by a man trying to sell me a Honda Civic parked inside the hall. His sales pitch was that it was the first totally assembled Honda in Nigeria; built completely to Nigerian specifications. For example, unlike the classical Honda, the Nigeria model has a high clearance, being mindful of the potholes in Nigerian roads. President Goodluck Jonathan speaks during his visit to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in Lagos, on March 12, 2015. President Jonathan visited the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on March 12, and launched a new online mobile platform, X-Gen, designed to increase local investment. The platform is targetted at increasing the number of local investors in the country and to enable about 30 millions domestic investors have access to the market. AFP PHOTO I had no in

We Don't Want Nigeria Again, 'UNITED STATES OF AREWA REPUBLIC'– Suleiman Mohammed Sani. Monday, 14 December 2015 We Don't Want Nigeria Again, 'UNITED STATES OF AREWA REPUBLIC'– Suleiman Mohammed Sani. Many northern Nigerians who identified themselves as Arewa, such as Suleiman Mohammed Sani are beginning to speak out, saying that they would like a new country which consists of 19 Northern States to be called 'United States of Arewa Republic'. READ Suleiman's statement below: ------- “One already existing agitation will bring about our existence without rancour, ours is already a cool, calm and articulated agenda. We had existed before the advent of the colonial masters, even without the real structures of Western influences and education, and no doubt we could exist better now.” Suleiman Mohammed Sani wrote. “We don’t start a fight, but we fight to finish if need be and often we conquer. “Whatever others think and feel, we could still do

Jude Ndukwe: Biafra, Junaid Muhammed and Northern Nigeria’s elite terrorists Op-Ed Editor   December 14, 2015         The recent and relentless unfortunate comments of a certain Junaid Muhammed, the purported convener of the Coali­tion of Northern Politi­cians, Academics, Profession­als and Businessmen, have  assumed a war dimension against Ndigbo and need to be addressed decisively now as always. One would have willingly chosen to fall into the destructive temptation of ignoring the man but for the fact that he leads a foremost group of supposedly highly respected class of people from the northern part of Nigeria, which makes his opinions representative of the group he leads, it is necessary that he be addressed and kept in his proper place while being exposed for who he is in order to halt his injurious obsession with Ndigbo, a people whose incomparable success in all noble endeavours of life gets him so riled. His latest vituperation against Ndigbo appeared as

Nigerian Shia movement leader's 'wife and son killed'   From the section Africa Image caption Sheikh Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, is inspired by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini Nigeria's main Shia Muslim sect says the wife and son of its leader have been killed in clashes with the military in the northern Kaduna state. The clashes came after allegations that members of the sect had attempted to assassinate Nigeria's army chief. The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, was also arrested in his home. The IMN denies the allegation, and says soldiers killed at least 20 of its members. Africa Live: BBC News Updates Meeting Sheikh Zakzaky The army says members of the sect attempted to assassinate its chief of staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, on Saturday when his motorcade was passing through a Shia procession. But the IMN says the Nigerian army opened fire on their members. The  Islamic Hum

Menu Home National Politics Metro Entertainment Sport Education Opinion Photos Music   Suspected Fulani gunmen attack Plateau community, kill 14 Email Address Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen have attacked Kwata in Zawan district of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State, killing 14 people in the process. The attack which occurred at about 10.30pm on Sunday left many other residents of the area with varied degree of injuries Details to come later.....

Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has granted bail to the founder of DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi, in the sum of N200m and two sureties in like sum, but held that he be kept at the Kuje prison, Abuja, pending the perfection of his bail conditions. The judge ruled that one of sureties must be a director in the Civil Service while the defendant must deposit his international passport with the court. He faulted the argument of the prosecution, led by Mr. Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, that Dokpesi was facing an indictable felony charge and should as such be kept behind bars. He said that an accused person is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Kolawole held that it was only in capital offences like murder that the court could deny granting bail to the accused person, noting that the maximum penalty for the offence the defendant was alleged to have committed was seven years imprisonment, which he added was minimal in relation to penalties for capi