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Nigeria: How South-East Cities Responded to Ipob's Sit-At-Home Order
Premium Times, 30 May 2018
Sirens blared as police convoys paraded the streets, local security outfits deployed to major markets and surveillance helicopters flew overhead. Read more »
Highs and Lows of the Biafra Sit-At-Home Campaign
The sit-at-home order by pro-Biafran groups, requesting people to stay away from work and school, achieved strong support in the south-east of the country, while in others it was not adhered to. The day was set aside to commemorate the 3-year period in 1967 when the Biafran people announced their secession from Nigeria, as an independent state. Meanwhile the whereabouts of Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu who has been in custody since 2017, is still not known.
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Biafra Sit-At-Home Call Succeeds in Some South-East Cities, Fails in Others
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Biafra is a region in Eastern Nigeria that broke away from larger Nigeria from 30 May 1967 to January 1970. Today, separatist movements still seek an independently governed state as they feel that ... see more »
Biafra sit-at-home call succeeds in some South-east cities, fails in others
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Pro-Biafra groups have called for the sit-at-home protest to commemorate the anniversary of the defunct Republic of Biafra on May 30, the date the breakaway state declared ... Read more »
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The Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss a suit seeking to compel him to produce the missing leader of the Indigenous People of ... Read more »
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Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Nnamdi Kanu is expected to appear in court for the commencement of his treason trial alongside three others. However, Kanu's whereabouts ... Read more »
