Month: June 2017

Afenifere: Igbos Eviction From The North – The Beginning Of Nigeria’s End

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Pan-Yoruba political organisation, Afenifere has reacted to the three months eviction notice issued by the Coalition of Northern Youths, ordering the Igbos to vacate the North. While urging Northern elders to call their youths to order, Yinka Odumakin, a spokesperson for the group warned that the eviction notice may be the beginning of the end for Nigeria. “Carrying out their threats would be a prelude to another pogrom. These elements have over the years showed theirpropensity to attack people, but like Chinua Achebe said, they are holding a knife to the…

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Are IPOB activities to blame for the Kaduna Declaration? » YNaija

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by Alexander O. Onukwue One can speculate that the ‘Arewa’ meeting which took place in Kaduna, Tuesday, and produced a declaration against continued association with Igbos was a response to the activities of the IPOB, the South-Eastern group. Citing unruliness, cultural degeneracy and even masking as Fulani herdsmen to perpetrate atrocities, the group claimed to want no more with “acrimonious Igbo partners”. The group claimed to be grieved by the sit-at-home encouraged by the Nnamdi Kanu-inspired group on May 30, the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the State of Biafra…

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BREAKING: Biafra: El-Rufai orders arrest of youths who gave Igbos three months to leave North – Daily Post Nigeria

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Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has ordered the arrest of people behind the three-month quit notice given to Igbos to leave the North. In a statement signed by his spokesman, Samuel Aruwan, El-Rufai strongly condemned, “the inciting, hate speech delivered by some self-appointed ‘northern youths.” El-Rufai said, ”the Kaduna State Government has directed that its Ministry of Justice should prepare charges and prosecute the signatories and anyone complicit in arranging this egregious assault on the rights of fellow citizens.” The Governor condemned the action of the groups, and assured every…

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Biafra: Senator Shehu Sani reacts to order asking Igbos to vacate North – Daily Post Nigeria

Seun Opejobi

Lawmaker representing Kaduna Central, Senator Sani Shehu, has reacted to threat issued by a Northern group that Igbos should vacate the North, saying no ethnic group has the right to eject another ethnic group in the country. Recall that the spokesperson of a Northern Coalition group, Coalition of Northern Youths, CNY, Abdulaziz Suleiman, had ordered Igbos to vacate the region in three months. Speaking yesterday, Suleiman had said the entire Northern Nigeria was done with coexisting with the Igbos and was asking that “all Igbos currently residing in any part…

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Biafra: We are not afraid of war – South East youths reply Arewa forum – Daily Post Nigeria

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The founder of Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, Evang. Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko has described the eviction order by the Coalition of Northern Youths, CNY, asking the Igbos to vacate the North as “childish,” stressing that people of the South East are not afraid of war. Ugochukwu noted that rather than issue such threat, the group should write to the National Assembly and other world body to “urgently” conduct referendum so as to secure the future of the country. In a statement, he said, “The statement from a hitherto unknown northern group is…

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Biafra: Start Returning Home Now- MASSOB Tell Biafrans In The North

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Sequel to the three-month ultimatum issued to Igbos by the Coalition of Northern Youths, CNY, to vacate the north, the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign States of Biafra, MASSOB, has called on Igbos living in the northern part of Nigeria to start returning home. Recall that prominent Northern youth organisations, on Tuesday, June 6, rose from a joint meeting called ‘Kaduna Declaration’ to issue a serious threat to the Igbos residing in the region urging them to begin making arrangements to relocate out of the North. The groups gave the…

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South-South not part of Biafra, IYC tells MASSOB

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Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt THE Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide has said that the South-South region is not part of Biafra and called on the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra to stop claiming that states in the region are among the territories of Biafra. IYC said in a statement signed by its spokesman, Mr. Henry Iyalla, and issued in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, decried a statement credited to one of MASSOB leaders, Solomon Chukwu, that the South-South region was part of the Biafran territory. Explaining that…

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