Nnamdi Kanu, who calls himself the "leader" of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was back on Radio Biafra yesterday evening, spitting fire and brimstone about Biafran "restoration", claiming that it was "scriptural" as "the time has come for Chukwu Okike Abiama to gather his people to return them where they belong".

This place of belonging is Biafra.  And God (Chukwu Okike Abiama) promised to "deliver us from the shackles and bondage" of the "Zoo" aka Nigeria.  He told us he prayed seven times a day and his purpose on this earth was to serve his people.

Kanu barked a lot and seemed barking mad to this observer, who was neither medically qualified nor sold on Kanu's dodgy theology.  But the man himself had something to say about people like me who didn't agree with him: "[God should] Let confusion be their portion and throw them into the pit".  While naysayers were trying to make themselves comfortable in the pit, Biafra will be restored and Kanu and his people will "build a temple at Arochukwu as of old" to "Chukwu Okike Abiama".

More: https://www.naijiant.com/articles/nnamdi-kanus-biafran-bark-is-looking-worse-than-his-bite/

Alex Iwobi has a new nickname given to him by his team-mates at Arsenal.

Find out more: https://www.naijiant.com/sports/alex-iwobi-reveals-new-nickname-at-arsenal/

How Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hasan exposed Oby Ezekwesili's ignorance:
https://www.naijiant.com/videos/from-madam-due-process-to-madam-public-embarrassment/

Strong evidence that soldiers used automatic firearms on Shi’a Muslims holding religious procession and protest
At least 39 protesters killed, and 122 injured, in a single day
Victims include men, women and children

An investigation by Amnesty International shows that the horrific use of excessive force by soldiers and police led to the killing of at least 45 supporters of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) over two days, as the Shi’a Muslim group held a peaceful religious procession around Abuja.

Amnesty researchers visited five different locations in Abuja and Nasarawa state where wounded IMN supporters were receiving treatment, including two locations where bodies were deposited. Researchers spoke with victims, eyewitnesses and medical practitioners, and analyzed videos and photographs of those injured and killed during the protests, which took place on Saturday and Monday.

More: https://www.naijiant.com/guestcolumn/nigerias-security-forces-must-be-held-accountable-for-killing-of-at-least-45-peaceful-shia-protesters/

Imo State governor Rochas Okorocha, who completes his second term in office next year, had grand plans to be succeeded by his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu.  But it appears those plans have been derailed by some players in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Nwosu appears to have failed in securing the APC ticket for the governorship, with the party hierarchy seeming to have backed Senator Hope Uzodinma.  Despite many attempts at shuttle diplomacy with Okorocha trying to get President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene and several veiled threats by the governor to quit the party, claiming that the APC was about to lose 5m votes if they didn't back his son-in-law.

Okorocha's attempts to bring Buhari on his side failed because, according to a source close to one of the players, a relatively unknown politician from Imo State has been influencing the president's thinking.

More: https://www.naijiant.com/beer-parlour-gist/who-is-the-force-behind-rochas-okorochas-woes-in-imo-state/

Tantalite:
But during Jonathan's presidency two of his children where killed, did Saudi Arabia gave Jonathan contract to kill them too

Do you know how many have been killed under the Buhari regime? In December 2015, the army killed 348 - according a Kaduna State govt inquiry. The Shia said it was over 1,000 killed. What sort of country kills over 300 civilians and nothing happens to the people responsible?

Ibrahim Musa, a spokesman for the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) said on Iran's Press TV yesterday that Mohammed Bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, gave Nigeria a "contract" to deal with the Shia-dominated movement.

Saudi Arabia and its ruling family belong to the Sunni Islamic sect.  Musa was speaking as a guest on the Iranian state-owned Press TV and added that the other reason the government of President Muhammadu Buhari was attacking Shias was due to a personal grouse between the president and the founder of IMN, Ibraheem Zakzaky. Buhari locked up Zakzaky when he first came to power as a military dictator in 1984 and the Shia leader wasn't released until Buhari was overthrown.

More + video: https://www.naijiant.com/videos/nigerias-deadly-crackdown-on-shias-is-on-a-contract-with-saudi-arabia-imn-spokesman/

It must be noted that this crisis is not the first this year to engulf Kasuwan Magani. At least 12 persons, 1,000 houses and several cars were destroyed in a religious crisis that erupted on 26 February over the conversion of a Christian girl to Islam by her Muslim boyfriend. 65 persons were subsequently arrested and charged to court by the state government.

The history of Kaduna state is filled with crises cutting across religious, economic and tribal issues. The various governments, both military and civilian have been unable to prevent the lawlessness in various areas of Kaduna. The state government’s helplessness was laid bare during the 2016 crisis between herdsmen and farmers in Godogodo town. The payment of compensation only for cattle killed in the crisis exposed the unwillingness of government to confront these security threats head-on.

More: https://www.naijiant.com/guestcolumn/the-kaduna-crisis-a-birds-eye-view/

sarrki:
It’s not about Buhari

It’s the rule of engagement of the military

Not everything we should politicize

Who is the Commander-in-Chief? Do you know the meaning of "command responsibility"?

President Muhammadu Buhari's government stands accused of abusing human rights and oppressing a minority group after clashes over the weekend and on Monday, in which scores of people were killed. Nigeria's main Shiite Muslim movement IMN said that troops shot and killed at least 27 of its members during a procession to the capital Abuja. These claims have not been independently verified.

Violence broke out when soldiers at a military checkpoint prevented the procession from entering Abuja to mark Arbaeen which occurs forty days after the Day of Ashura,  a day of mourning for Shiites. In the past, the event has often ended in clashes owing to intervention by security forces.

The march at the weekend was more than just a religious rite, since it was also meant to pressure authorities to release the Shiite cleric Ibrahim Zakzaky. The founder and leader of the Shiite Islamist Movement of Nigeria (IMN), has been in jail since December 2015. At the time, security forces killed more than 300 adherents of the movement in the so called Zaria massacre in Kaduna state.

More: https://www.naijiant.com/guestcolumn/nigeria-another-boko-haram-in-the-making/

TRUTHaDDICTED:
Everyone needs attention and relevance, but of cause its unrealistic without adding the sellout names like Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB or Biafra; these three names have become a hot cake that can't be done away with' by ewedu eating media junks including some junks and gutter media news scavengers like this very nonentity who can't help but must survive by their daily bread.

You are talking about junk while writing junk. It's hard to make sense of what you wrote.

Nasafina:
Mr poster how did you know the interviewer did not believe Mazi Kanu

Jesus, His disciples and Paul died as Jews who practiced Judaism .

Christianity is a lifestyle but christian religion is a political tool invented by Rome ..

Igbo's were Jews but the whip of the religious colonial christians made most of them to abandon there faith

Publishing false info and tagging Mazi Kanu just to get traffic may result to click-bombing on your blog I hope you understand what i mean

If our parents were muslims we would having been shouting alla kubar upandan or some might be among the shitte who were killed

Ignorance like yours is what Kanu thrives on. The interviewer's quotes are there for you to see. You can also watch the video and see his final comment. He didn't refer to Kanu as a Jew. That shows he didn't believe Kanu's claims.

IronHammer:


Mr blogger, ur articules on Biafra was never on good faith, u and ur like are simply riding on the popularity of IPOB and Biafra to put food on ur table. I'm not against that in any way. Man must hustle. But don't spoil others own to build ur own it's worse than witchcraft.

We should allow Igbos to decide ?(coz u want to economic with truth. It's BIAFRA) Well, why not preach same to Nigeria state to allow Biafrans to decide through #BiafraReferendum if to continue to exist with u or not, but ur hypocrite won't allow u write on that.

Finally, starting ur exposition of lies with Nigeria state which is presently having a negative effects on u and ur family and leave a man who's even fighting to make life easier for u.

How long shall people continue to fool themselves in this British business center? Is there any spell cast upon the masses by the political class? How people reason and act here beats my imagination

Like Fela said, make you no follow follow, use your sense. If you are an Igbo man, you should know that they don't follow like sheep.

Yes, let people decide where they want to be - that is democracy. But don't decide for them. Kanu decided that Biafra will be a Jewish state before asking people if that is what they want. You can't force people to convert. The other day, he said Biafra Kingdom will be restored. Do you know what a "kingdom" is? I think most Igbos a republican by nature and culture. What they would want is a republic.

Kanu is not fighting for me. Get that through your head. He never asked me which fight we should fight.

AskProf:


A scammer who thinks he's is blogger. Pity yourself.

Kanu is scamming people like you.

Bane2020:
CIC Enugu from cybereagles, I sight you bro... You've migrated to Nairaland to sell your blog abi? Nwanne ezigbo owu ji gi.

Na craze dey worry you!

IronHammer:



And who made u Biafrans legal adviser?

All who seek popularity in maligning others must end in low life

U should be worried about how civilians were murdered today in cold blood

Write articules condemning and exposing the rot in Nigeria system. The high handedness of ur elected officials and the delegates.

Give ur time to ur One Nigeria

You and Kanu should not claim to speak for Igbo people or Biafrans. Don't claim they want a Jewish State until you ask them. The overwhelming majority of Igbos are Christians.

Go to Naijiant.com and see hundreds of articles condemning the shooting of pro-Biafrans, Shias, and saying that Buhari has committed crimes against humanity. See this for example:
https://www.naijiant.com/videos/crimes-humanity-case-buhari/

Just b/c someone points out the lies of Kanu doesn't mean they support the evil of the Nigerian govt. Use your sense!

IronHammer:
Hungry go kee u coz nobody is ready to open that dubious site


The northerners want Islamic State

Biafrans want Jewish State


U hang urself if e too pain u

You sound like an extremist. When did you ask Biafrans if they want a Jewish state?

As he signed off, the interviewer thanked Kanu and inadvertently showed that he wasn't convinced by the person that claimed to be a Jew.  Kanu was referred to as "Nnamdi Kanu from the Igbo people in Biafra".  Perhaps the interviewer felt that, if it looks like an Igbo, talks like an Igbo, it can't possibly be a Jew.

See more questionable claims by Kanu and video: https://www.naijiant.com/videos/nnamdi-kanu-makes-questionable-claims-on-israeli-tv/

Fashola is a very ignorant man. https://www.naijiant.com/articles/fasholas-politics-of-ignorance/

Today, he said this broadcast was to his IPOB "family".  It seemed he was intent on shoring up their support as he claimed that many "went astray" when he was "away".  It looked like the sheep had lost their shepherd.  He said he was in Israel, but this was no "Sermon on the Mount".  It was more like a rant on the radio by a shock jock that trying to cram in all his pet peeves against Nigeria and all the folks that had wronged his people, the Biafrans.

More: https://www.naijiant.com/articles/nnamdi-kanu-preaches-to-the-converted-in-new-broadcast/

Fashola’s fallacies about a “return to power” to the southwest are nothing but unadulterated ignorance. The best thing that could be said in his favour is that he knew that a Yoruba president didn’t really mean that Yorubas are in power. And he was just engaging in ethnocentric politics to deceive his audience into voting for his boss, divert their attention from the real issues such as the failures of this regime, and for Buhari to keep Fashola in his job after 2019. Neither explanation shows the minister for power failure in a good light.

More: https://www.naijiant.com/articles/fasholas-politics-of-ignorance/

Fiona Bruce, the Conservative MP for Congleton in Cheshire, said in the House of Commons today that "nothing less than genocide is unfolding in Nigeria".  Bruce was speaking during a debate to mark this year's International Freedom of Religion or Belief Day.

More: https://www.naijiant.com/articles/british-mp-fiona-bruce-accuses-fulani-herdsmen-of-genocide-in-nigeria/

Nnamdi Kanu, the self-styled leader of the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), spoke to his followers on the internet-based Radio Biafra for the first time since he was arrested by Nigerian security officials on 18 October 2015.  It was typical blowhard demagoguery, short on substance and must have convinced nobody apart from his fanatical followers.

Kanu went missing after the Nigerian army raided his father's home on 14 September last year.  He was meant to be on bail pending his trial for "criminal conspiracy, intimidation and membership of an illegal organisation".  He wasn't seen in public after the raid until a video and pictures of him in Israel were published online last Friday.  Radio Biafra, the station that made Kanu well known to the Nigerian public, then announced that their leader will speak today at 6pm local time.

There were so many questions to be answered.  Where was he since the army raid?  Did he escape the raid?  Why has he been silent since then?  What is he doing in Israel?  When did he arrive there?  However, the man of the hour didn't arrive on the hour.  He was perhaps fashionably late - by eight minutes.  Maybe it was technical problems at the station.  But he did say that he and his IPOB "family" are "civilised people".  Keeping to time is the civilised thing to do - and would surely set them apart from Nigeria that he wants Biafra to secede from.

He said he was back on Radio Biafra after four years to preach a "gospel of redemption".  "The Kingdom of Biafra" was "invevitable" and it was their mission to "restore or die restoring Biafra".  It was a slight concern that what Kanu wanted to restore was a "kingdom" and not a democratic state.  He didn't tell listeners who would be king in this kingdom.

More: https://www.naijiant.com/articles/nnamdi-kanu-blows-hard-on-his-return-to-radio-biafra/

Which one be "former cousin"? How do you stop being a cousin?

A source close to Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State and All Progressives Candidate (APC) chieftain, has informed Naijiant.com that the self-styled "national leader" of the party is considering the right time to abandon it and its presidential candidate and current president Muhammadu Buhari for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP) Atiku Abubakar.

More: https://www.naijiant.com/beer-parlour-gist/is-tinubu-planning-to-be-atikulated/

Lai Mohammed, Nigeria's propaganda minister, spoke at Chatham House in London on Wednesday morning.  Responding to a question about the cost of governance in Nigeria and excessive pay for governors, legislators and so on, he said he didn't know how much senators earned, "I know how much I earn, it is barely enough to survive".

Mohammed didn't say how much it was, whether he was on minimum wage, or whether information about ministers' pay was in the public domain.  It was the sort of evasive and non-specific answers he gave the audience during the Q&A session that followed his typically bland presentation with a lot of questionable information.

More and video here: https://www.naijiant.com/videos/i-earn-barely-enough-to-survive-lai-mohammed-lying-at-chatham-house/

phexx:
If u think this write up will stop me from voting him,am sorry to disappoint u.

Democracy is about exercising free choice. Nobody should try to stop you from exercising your choice. But that choice should also be based on being informed. So this write-up is part of the democratic process of keeping voters informed, so that they can exercise their free will properly.

AllHailBiafra:
In as much as I know that this is a political draft, I neither want Obi anywhere near the zoo political system. He should back off and support the quest for the restoration of Biafra. Therefore Obi may have actually made the comment but that's not the highest by the way, Obi also instructed the killing of these bodies below. Mind you, Obi is my brother, we came from the same community, I'm not against him now because I hate him nor because I don't want him to become the VP, but because we don't need any political arrangement in the zoo political system. Biafra is all we stand for and Biafra must be restored.

Somebody halla my Monika^^^

Many pro-Biafrans have jumped on the Atiku bandwagon b/c of Obi. This is why I believe an Igbo president would derail Biafran agitation.

phase1:
Yet he took public schools and handed them to over to the missionaries who welcome the poor. Today Anambra is one of the most educated states.

Najiant the buharideen zombie, come with another propaganda, this one dead on arrival.

The church schools are charging fees.

naijaking1:


Is this all the bad news your research machine could find about Obi?
Keep trying, this one doesn't fly, ok.

More to come. Watch this space.

Bethel4Life:
Lol clutching at straws.. Is Obi corrupt or not


Zombies see un life

Very corrupt.

The bad news for Obi and his many supporters is that now he is in the (s)election season spotlight, his record as governor will face more scrutiny than he can cover up with the empty bombast from his speaking tours.

In 2012 students of Anambra State University (ANSU) in Uli campus rioted because of the burden of tuition fees increases to 119,000 naira (about $326) and 129,000 ($354).  The students burnt down several offices, including the vice chancellor’s. Governor Obi sent the state police’s anti-robbery squad to restore order in the campus.  Just before increasing those fees Obi said: "Education in Anambra state is not meant for the poor".

More: https://www.naijiant.com/articles/peter-obi-education-in-anambra-state-is-not-meant-for-the-poor/