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Nigeria: Igbo Quit Notice - Rights Group Wants 'Concrete Actions' From Govt
Daily Trust, 15 June 2017
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has urged the Federal Government to go beyond rhetoric and threats but take decisive actions over the recent ultimatum by… Read more »
Action Urged on Nigeria 'Quit Notice' Before Things Fall Apart
The "quit notice" by a coalition of northern youths to citizens of Igbo extraction living in the northern part of Nigeria, has been condemned by 19 youth groups affiliated to the Oil & Solid Mineral Producing Area Landlords' Association of Nigeria as well as other civil society groups who are calling on the national government to step in and take action.
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Nigeria: Kanu, Biafra and the Rest of Us
Guardian, 15 June 2017
For the second time in a few months, the alert had gone out again on the social media to the effect that there was some big brother lurking around in the corridors of power seeking… Read more »
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Nigeria: Quit Notice - Defend Your Oath of Office, Northern Youths Tell Political Leaders
Vanguard, 16 June 2017
Youths from 19 northern states under the aegis of Oil & Solid Mineral Producing Area Landlords' Association of Nigeria, OMPALAN, yesterday, condemned the quit notice by a… Read more »
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Nigeria: Biafra, Quit Notice and All That Nonsense
Vanguard, 16 June 2017
For nearly two weeks now the entire news space has been filled with what a LEADERSHIP editorial correctly described as "the valorisation of secessionist hubris." Read more »
InFocus
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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has met with northern leaders as part of his move to reconcile the region and the south east. The meeting came after some youth groups in the north ... Read more »
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Kaduna State Governor Malam Nasir El-Rufai has ordered the arrest of leaders of the Arewa groups that issued an ultimatum to Igbos residing in the northern part of the country to ... Read more »
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President Muhammadu Buhari has urged youths from the South-East to tell their colleagues to forget about agitating for the sovereign state of Biafra. Read more »
