By IfeanyiChukwu Afuba (A Review Of The Politics Of Biafra And The Future Of Nigeria) Hon. Chudi Offodile’s energy-filled book calls to mind two striking titles from past intellectual engagement with Nigeria. In chronological order, the first was a 1985 poem by Sonala Olumhense in The Guardian “Because I Love You.” The other was Emeka…
By Joe Udo ABUJA (CONVERSEER) – The Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed 20th November 2025 for judgment in the terrorism trial of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Justice James Omotosho announced the date on Friday following the expiration of the six-day window granted to Kanu to…
By Joe Udo OWERRI (CONVERSEER) – The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has urged the Nigeria Police Force to provide full protection for peaceful demonstrators expected to participate in the nationwide #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protests on 20 October. In a statement issued on Saturday by its spokesperson, Comrade Emma Powerful, IPOB advised the police to uphold professionalism…
Finnish court jails Simon Ekpa By Joe Udo HELSINKI (CONVERSEER) – A Finnish court has sentenced Simon Ekpa, an agitator and self-acclaimed Prime Minister of Biafra, to six years imprisonment for terrorism offences and tax fraud. The Päijät-Häme District Court found Ekpa guilty of inciting a public crime committed with terrorist intent, participating in the…
The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, on Monday renewed the call for Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, to withdraw from his trial for alleged terrorism. The judge adjourned the case indefinitely at the resumed sitting on Monday. Kanu, who was surprised to appear before the…
Ngozi Orabueze, deputy to Simon Ekpa, the detained Finland-based self-proclaimed Prime Minister of the United States of Biafran Government in Exile (USB), has announced a recruitment drive into various Biafran security forces. In a statement dated December 25, 2024, titled “Announcement of Conscription Call to Serve the United States of Biafra Security Forces”, Orabueze, alongside…
Abuja, Nigeria – A district court in Lahti, Finland, has ordered the imprisonment of Simon Ekpa, a self-proclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on charges of public incitement to commit a crime with terrorist intent in Nigeria. The court alleges that the offences date back to August 23, 2021. Ekpa, Finnish-born Nigeria,…
Suspected members of the Biafra Nations League (BnL) have killed three Cameroonian gendarmes in Atabong East of Bakassi Peninsula, collecting their rifles. Reports said the BnL boys, numbering five, overwhelmed three gendarmes at the market, hitting them hard with weapons; one of them, who quickly snatched a gun, shot the three officers and ran away…
By Magnus Effiong Biafra Nations League (BNL), a separatist group with headquarters in Bakassi peninsular, has accused the Nigerian leaders of treating the people of the South East and South regions as third-class citizens. BNL Leader, Princewill Chimezie Richards, who said this while addressing Journalists in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, demanded that the…
A former Bakassi detainee and frontline separatist leader, Princewill Chimezie Richards, has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Bola Tinubu to conduct a referendum for the people of the South East and South South as the government has failed to revive the seaports in the region, as well as treating the…
