•IPoB The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared that the Eastern Security Network (ESN) is under oath to safeguard the South-East region, stressing that operatives would not engage in any form of criminality. In a statement commemorating the ESN’s 4th anniversary, IPOB spokesman Emma Powerful commended the gallantry of the...
The acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ambassador Iliya Damagum, and Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah were among prominent members who notably boycotted the South East stakeholders’ meeting held at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja today. The meeting, convened by embattled National Secretary Senator Samuel A...
•Incarcerated IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu and his lawyers The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has called for his trial to be transferred to the South-East if no judge at the Federal High Court in Abuja is willing to preside over the case apart from Justice Binta Nyako. Kanu’s demand […]
•Simon Ekpa The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, today, said the arrest of Simon Ekpa in Finland has greatly reduced the tension in the South East. This development, he said, alongside Operation Udoka by the Defence Headquarters, is restoring peace in the region, reports Vanguard. Operation Udoka was established to flush bandi...
Tales of woes have continued to persist in the South-East geo-political region due to the unending spate of kidnappings in the zone. No week passes by without tales of people being kidnapped in different parts of the five states that make up the zone, reports Vanguard. Stories abound of innocent travellers who were caught in […]
•Olisa Agbakoba, SAN A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr Olisa Agbakoba, has faulted the agitation for the creation of additional states in the South-East, insisting it would not solve the problem of the region. Rather than create more states, Agbakoba, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, said the National Assembly should amend th...
•Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma The Chairman of the South-East Governors Forum and governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, today, said the Forum would partner with Ohaneze Ndigbo to industrialize the South-East zone. The governor stated this during a consultative meeting with members of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Council of Igbo Business Leaders at ...
•Obasanjo The South East Governors, today, hosted former President Olusegun Obasanjo who paid the governors a solidarity visit while they decided to meet President Bola Tinubu to press for the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Addressing the media, after over seven hours of marathon meeting, the ...
Coalition of South East Youths leaders, COSEYL, today blamed the cause of food scarcity on open grazing and banditry in the country. The President General of COSEYL, Goodluck Ibem, disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri, while commenting on the level of hunger in the country, reports Vanguard. According to the group, “The Coalition of South [&hel...
•Nnamdi Kanu in court Members of the House of Representatives from the South-East region, led by Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere, described the rejection of the bail application of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, by a Federal High Court in Abuja, as another major setback in the healing process and [&hellip...

