A Catholic from the south-east who rejects the secessionist demands of Nnamdi Kanu and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) campaign Obi has picked Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed a former senator from Kaduna as his running mate...
Buhari's officials wants to push ahead with the trial of south-east secessionist leader Nnamdi Kanu although it might backfire for the APC's support in the region ahead of elections...
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Since the 26 June arrest and extradition of Nnamdi Kanu leader of the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) the most prominent breakaway movement in the area the group has announced an average of one lockdown per week to show its might (AC Vol 62 No 18 Fighting for the fiscus)...
In the south-east the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has continued operating after the detention of its leader Nnamdi Kanu and the seizing its paramilitary camps...
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Britain has not joined the chorus of criticism mainly from international human rights organisations against the extradition of Nnamdi Kanu leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra from Kenya to Nigeria...
Privately Nigerian officials are asking how Kanu who received visits from British diplomats before he skipped bail in 2017 was able to secure the British travel document that he had been using before his extradition to Nigeria (AC Vol 62 No 12 Nnamdi Kanu celebrates)...
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Its first scalp was Nnamdi Kanu the founder of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who had fled the country in 2017 but took credit for a growing separatist sentiment in the south-east...
Kanu come home Attorney-General Abubakar Malami announced on 29 June that Nnamdi Kanu the leader of the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra movement had been brought before the Abuja courts to answer terror charges for which he had skipped bail in 2017...
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Secessionist leader Nnamdi Kanu no slouch when it comes to threatening violence on social media was celebrating another propaganda victory as the ban was greeted with hostility and ridicule...
IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu says ESN was launched in response to soldiers killing dozens of unarmed civilians in Oyigbo Rivers State last November...
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Taking a cue from this the Indigenous People of Biafra a secessionist group under the nominal leadership of Nnamdi Kanu set up an armed wing known as the Eastern Support Network in December...
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They point to the campaign by militant secessionist Nnamdi Kanu who pays Washington DC lobbyists Mercury Public Affairs LLC an $85 000 monthly retainer to publish opinion pieces accusing Buhari's government of genocide against Christians and calls for US Global Magnitsky Act sanctions against 'illicit actors' in Nigeria...