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F ormer Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has warned against the deployment of soldiers and police to the South East and South South , in a bid to arrest leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. In a series of posts on Twitter on Saturday, Fani-Kayode claimed Kanu was bigger than President Muhammadu Buhari. He tweeted: “I learnt that more soldiers and police have been deployed to the SE and SS to prepare for the re-arrest of Nnamdi Kanu. “For the final time, I urge the FG to be restrained. You cannot fight 2 wars on 2 fronts all at once. Nnamdi Kanu is bigger than Buhari. He is a real lion.” The Nigerian Police said it had increased the numerical strength of their personnel in the South-East and South-South zones of the country. According to the police, this was in a bid to prevent a breach of the peace, which may result from the activities of Biafran agitators ahead of the upcoming Anambra State governorship election. The pol...

H on. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora has again condemned the incessant extra judicial killing of Nigerians living in South Africa. She said the continuous killings showed that South African government was downplaying possible retaliation by Nigeria. In a statement on Saturday by her special assistant on media, Abdurrahman Balogun, the presidential aide said “this is one death, too many.” She said diplomatic talks between Nigeria and South Africa to put an early warning signal in place “doesn’t seem to be working”. Recall that the Nigeria Union in South Africa confirmed the killing of another member,Kingsley Ikeri, at Vryheid town in Kwazulu Natal Province of South Africa on August 30. Ikeri, 27, a businessman and native of Mbaitolu in Imo State, is the second Imo indigene to be so killed in the last two weeks. Reacting, Dabiri-Erewa described the latest extra judicial killing of ...

T he Nigerian Police said it has increased the numerical strength of their personnel in the South-East and South-South zones of the country. According to the police, this was in a bid to prevent a breach of the peace, which may result from the activities of Biafran agitators ahead of the upcoming Anambra State governorship election. The police also said it was waiting for court pronouncement for the arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. Nigerian Government had last week demanded that the Federal High Court in Abuja revoke the bail granted to Kanu. Speaking to Punch, the Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, said “We have made additional deployments, particularly in Anambra State, because of the upcoming governorship election and also to other South-East and South- South states to ensure that IPOB did not actualise its threat of stopping the election. “So also, any pronouncement from the court would be strictly e...

L eader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has vowed that Nigeria will burn if the Federal Government goes ahead to re-arrest him. Kanu was reacting to the recent moves by the Nigerian government to arrest him for breaching his bail condition. Speaking with Sun, the IPOB leader said he would resist every attempt to silence him, arguing that he has not committed any offence that could lead to his rearrest. He said, “I don’t care! Quote me verbatim. If I’m re-arrested, this country will burn, I assure you. From where that oil money they depend on, they can no longer have access to it. I assure them that. This is not empty threat. We’re IPOB, we don’t abandon our own. “I will sacrifice anything, including my family to ensure that Biafra is restored. Any obstacle on my way will be obliterated. I’m not asking for Sokoto; I’m not asking for Kaduna, or Borno, I said this very land where my progenitors raised us; the land of our ancestors; of over 5, 0...

E kiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has called for the total restructuring of the country, noting that moves to split the country is already too late to materialize. Fayose was responding to Wednesday’s meeting between the governors of the South-East states and the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. He said the meeting had provided a useful platform which all Igbos must take advantage of to advance their cause in Nigeria. He appealed to the Federal Government to allow political solutions to agitations by Nigerians as against the use of brute force, saying he remained “committed to the call for full and total restructuring of Nigeria through dialogue and negotiation because it is too late for Nigeria to disintegrate.” In the statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Thursday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said he was “particularly glad that South-East governors have come to the realisat...