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Nnamdi Kanu's lawyer claims his client might be dead or alive following an alleged army invasion which allegedly caused the death of several sympathizers of the IPOB group. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, a lawyer to the leader of the Indigenous Peoples Of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, enraged with politicians in Southeast for taking sides with the Nigerian government on the proscription of IPOB, has labelled all politicians especially governors as cowards for not supporting the demands for IPOB. Barrister Ejiofor, who has been the legal counsel to Nnamdi Kanu and Indigenous Peoples Of Biafra (IPOB), disclosed to SaharaReporters during an interview that politicians in South Eastern part of the country did not support Nnamdi Kanu because they are more concerned about securing their political positions. He added that the politicians prefer to do this at the expense of backing the cause championed by Nnamdi Kanu. He claimed the current crops of politicians in the region of the country would be swept out ...

Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, has said that only the federal government of Nigeria, has the constitutional right to declare the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, wanted. Buratai also refuted claims that the Army is under any pressure, to withdraw troops from South-East. He gave the statement on Monday, after the opening of the third quarter Nigerian army conference in Abuja. Ever since the launch of Operation Python Dance in the South East, many have called for its termination, especially after some military personnel clashed with IPOB members in Umuahia and Aba in Abia State. Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and the wife of the late Biafran warlord, Bianca Ojukwu, have condemned the Army’s terming of IPOB as a terrorist organization, describing such categorization as unconstitutional and unjustifiable. However, Buratai refuted insinuations that the army is under pressure to withdraw troops from the region and insi...

Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, has condemned the militarization of some part of the South-East under Operation Python Dance, “in the obvious attempt to arrest the growing influence of the Nnamdi Kanu led Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)”. In a statement issued by the OPC on Thursday, and signed by its Publicity Secretary, Yinka Oguntimehin, the group said the agitation of IPOB could be fruitfully addressed through dialogue rather than the military option being adopted by the Federal government. The OPC said it did not believe there was any security threat in Umuahia and its environs to warrant the deployment of soldiers to intimidate and molest innocent Nigerians who are going about their lawful business. According to the Yoruba group, the Federal Government should be careful in handling the IPOB issue, adding that any agitation that has been able to attract international sympathy and support like that of IPOB should be handled with utmost care and high degree of d...

The Nigerian army on Sunday allegedly invaded the home of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, barely 24 hours after it announced the start of its second phase of Operation Python Dance II in the South-Eastern states. DAILY POST, however, gathered that the military personnel, who stormed Kanu’s home with an armoured vehicle were resisted by some members of the pro-Biafra group. Some IPOB were reportedly shot in the process. According to the spokesman of IPOB, Emma Powerful, about five youths were killed and about 30 were injured. “The Hausa Fulani soldiers and Police Nigerian uniforms came to kill our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in his compound at Afaraukwu Umuahia and started shooting sporadically and killed five people and up to thirty people with bullets wounds, after attacking our people they went off, they came with 5 hilux vans,” he said. Every effort made to obtain reaction from the Nigerian Army failed as the Deputy Director, Arm...