Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the U.S. consulate in Istanbul, according to live footage from Turkey’s state-run TRT television. Erdogan threatened this week to cut ties with Israel if Trump went ahead, calling Jerusalem a “red line” for Muslims.

Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the Arab League’s secretary-general, said he was surprised that the U.S. administration would “get involved in an unjustified provocation of the feelings of 360 million Arabs and 1.5 billion Muslims to please Israel.”

The status of Israel is one of the few issues that unites leaders in a part of the world riven by war and sectarian divides. Archrivals Saudi Arabia and Iran, which are engaged in deadly proxy conflicts in Yemen and Syria, have offered some of the harshest commentary about Trump’s plan in recent days.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told a gathering of Iranian officials Wednesday that “without a doubt, the Islamic world will resist this conspiracy . . . and beloved Palestine will finally be freed,” the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

Palestinians, already discouraged over what they describe as a consistently pro-Israel stance by the U.S., said Trump’s decision essentially killed any remaining peace hopes. Leaders called for three “days of rage” culminating after Friday prayers.

Although protests in the West Bank were muted Wednesday, in part because of the cold weather and rain, hundreds took to the streets in the Gaza Strip, chanting angry slogans against the U.S. and Israel, and burning the flags of both countries.

“Trump has just declared the end of the two-state solution,” said Tahrir Aloumor, 36, who joined a demonstration in the Jabaliya refugee camp. “Shame on you, Trump.”

International backing for Trump’s plan was almost nonexistent, but Israeli media reports on Wednesday cited at least one leader who is on board with the president’s move: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who is denounced by human rights groups and many Western governments for a deadly anti-drug campaign. Israel’s Channel One reported that Duterte expressed interest in moving his country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The Trump administration has opted against an earlier plan of converting the existing U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem to an embassy, said a non-governmental expert on the Middle East who consults regularly with the White House. Instead, it’s looking to construct an entirely new facility over the long term and a U.S. team is examining prospective sites in Jerusalem, said the individual, who wasn’t authorized to disclose private conversations with U.S. officials and requested anonymity.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/12/06/warnings-from-allies-and-foes-intensify-as-trump-prepares-to-recognize-jerusalem-as-israels-capital.html

Biafrans in northern nigeria should be vigilant and walk in group.

The muslim dominated northern nigeria might erupt in violence because of this recognition as muslim world over are threatening fire and war

Protests erupt in Gaza, Turkey and Jordan in wake of Trump announcement

An umbrella organisation of Muslim countries has warned Donald Trump's possible recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital would constitute "naked aggression" against the Arab and Muslim world, while the ruling Palestinian party has called for mass protests against such a move by Washington.

The Organisation for Islamic Cooperation issued a statement on Monday saying its 57 member states should sever ties with any state that transfers its embassy to Jerusalem or recognises Israel's annexation of east Jerusalem.

Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, but the international community does not recognize its sovereignty over it. Palestinians claim it as the capital of their hoped-for state.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/jerusalem-live-updates-israel-capital-donald-trump-latest-news-palestine-us-president-recognise-a8094321.html

here is his statue

ColonelDrake:

Why do I have the feeling that this poster is alcatraz005...

Anyway, your submission was spot on and straight to the point. You have made valid points that should set a reasonable Yoruba thinking. You are very right to advise the SE & SS not to back down on the call and demand for restructuring. But sorry to disappoint you - those two are nothing but noise makers and toothless bulldogs.

Since the demise of Ipob, everyone has gone mute. When last did you hear restructuring.

The gullible Yoruba Christians you referenced, don't bother yourself too much. They cannot be redeemed. They're very docile and gullible. They haven't woken up yet to smell the coffee. They're still deceived by the oneness and unity preached in church. I don't blame them. I now blame churches who have now made it look like secession of call for self determination is a sin. You'll hear prayer points like - every agent of the devil trying to separate us in one nigeria, God should send his fire to consume them. And I'll be like, "like seriously?"

For the umpteen time, to each man his own. I don't kill myself or bother myself over irredeemable set of gullible people who believe more in their pastors than their own independent thinking, who doesn't believe in using their common sense and fighting against in justice but relying excessively on God hoping that one day things go better. Such is the gullible Yoruba Christians. Let them continue to live in denial. Leave them alone. They love their chains.

please send me the link to the request made by the muric.

@ bolded, the muslim led federal government understands the potency of IPOB, that is why they want to silence her at all cost.... Unfortunately, advocates of restructring from the South West were blinded by hatred for Biafrans and Igbos in particular that they urged the useless government on

Resurgentxtian:
The igbos must not stop now. This is the time to continue the call for the restructuring of the Federation. We were warned about this Government by Pastor Bosun Emmanuel of RCCG but the G.O chose to ignore because of the VP post now yorubaland risks being islamised and under the control of extremists. We dont need that pity as we brought this upon ourselves.

we are not interested in your useless restructuring or nigeria. what we want is Biafra

The high profile trial of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu by the Nigeria government has been put on hold till further notice; this is according to a reliable information obtained by Family Writers Press.

The controversial trial of the IPOB Leader and three other Biafra activists was scheduled to have resumed on Tuesday, July 11, 2017, prior to this latest adjournment by the Federal High Court Abuja.

A Counsel to one of the defendants disclosed that he has obtained a notification letter pertaining to the recent development. He revealed that the case is likely to resume later in October this year, even though no specific date has been chosen for the continuation of the trial.

Meanwhile, a source close to the federal government revealed that the main reason behind the suspension of the trial of Nnamdi Kanu and his co-defendants is because the Federal Government of Nigeria is currently in a state of confusion on how to continue with a case that has done more harm than good to the image of the country and the judiciary both locally and internationally.

The source further revealed that the Nigeria government has been deeply unsettled over the drastically increasing prominence of Nnamdi Kanu across the world, as well as his unshakable resolve for Biafra restoration. According to it, Nnamdi Kanu has been a thorn on the flesh of the Nigeria government ever since his conditional release from detention; and having come to terms with the grave consequences of revoking his bail as well as lack of veritable evidences to continue with the trial, the Federal Government has opted for the trial to be suspended indefinitely.

However, the source disclosed that there is need for the security of Nnamdi Kanu to be professionally fortified, as Nigeria government and powerful political cabals in Nigeria are desperate to stop the IPOB Leader by all means, which may eventually terminate his life.

http://www.thebiafraherald.co/2017/07/confused-nigeria-government-on-run-as.html

Biafrans has been recognized in Germany today at the International carnival in Berlin. Biafrans are making waves all over the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shl5bpAKKQI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gm5_a4C8gU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTXzas6ufRQ

correct talk bro

Glory be to Chukwu okike abiamah the curse we place on Britain again is already at work again Britain must fall.

https://web.facebook.com/ik.ifeanyi.7/videos/10209604353881700/

These reverend sisters are illiterates and miscreants -Afonjas

https://web.facebook.com/CharlesTochukwunwafor/videos/1324087557710734/

Umuahia, Nigeria - Nnamdi Kanu waves his hand and puffs in frustration: "Nothing seems to be working in Nigeria. There is pain and hardship everywhere. What we're fighting [for] is not self-determination for the sake of it. It's because Nigeria is not functioning and can never function."

The leader of a group demanding the secession of southeastern Nigeria is speaking exclusively to Al Jazeera in the parlour of his father's home in the southeastern city of Umuahia.

It's the first time he has spoken to an international media outlet since he was granted bail on health grounds last month. His bail conditions prohibit him from being in a crowd of more than 10 people, leaving the country and giving media interviews.

But when asked if he is worried that he will get in trouble with the Nigerian authorities for speaking to Al Jazeera he scoffs, "I don't care," and rolls his eyes.

"I can't go outside to call for a press conference. I can't go on Biafra Radio to broadcast. I can't allow large [groups of] people to basically congregate outside to see me … it's like asking me not to breathe," he says.

On the other side of the parlour door, dozens of people are waiting to see Kanu. A throng of young men dressed in black guard the compound. They refer to Kanu as, "our supreme leader" or "his royal highness".

Kanu left Nigeria to study economics and politics at the London Metropolitan University and started Radio Biafra, an obscure, niche, London-based radio station in 2009.

In one broadcast, Kanu said: "We have one thing in common, all of us that believe in Biafra, one thing we have in common, a pathological hatred for Nigeria. I cannot begin to put into words how much I hate Nigeria."

Over the past two years, Kanu's status has risen.

Today, he's a highly visible activist and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) organisation, and after being imprisoned in the Nigerian capital of Abuja for nearly two years on treasonable felony charges, he has now returned home.

"Kanu is my saviour," says Sopuru Amah, a senior student at one of Nigeria's oldest universities, the University of Nigeria in the southeastern city of Nsukka.

"Just like Jesus was sent to save the world, Kanu was sent by God himself to save the Igbo people."
Nigeria's ethnic politics

With an estimated population of more than 180 million, Nigeria is often called the "giant of Africa". The complexity of Nigeria's population is compounded by its ethnic diversity. Around 250 ethnic groups, each with their own languages, reside in Nigeria. With a myriad of ethnicities dotted across the landscape, three major groups tend to emerge in national dialogue due to their sheer numbers: the Yoruba, from the southwest; the Hausa-Fulani in the north and the Igbo from the southeast.

Pro-Biafrans say the federal Nigerian government is discriminating and marginalising them, the Igbo people.

"I'm not allowed to contest for the presidency of Nigeria because I'm Igbo. I'm not allowed to aspire to become the inspector general of police because I'm Igbo. I'm not allowed to become chief of army staff because I'm Igbo. What sort of stupid country is that?" Kanu asks. "Why would any idiot want me to be in that sort of country?"

In Kanu's mind, Umuahia does not exist in Nigeria. It is in Biafra and he is waiting for the world to acknowledge it.

Since the 1964 appointment of the first indigenous Nigerian as the head of the Nigerian Police Force, known as the inspector general, more than a dozen officers have held the post. Two of them have been Igbo. In a lineup of almost two-dozen chiefs of army staff, the highest-ranking military officer in the Nigerian army, two have come from southeastern Nigeria.
Perceptions of marginalisation

"The southeast feels it has been politically marginalised. There is a point to that. It has been shrunken from being one of the three major regions of the country to now being virtually a minority with the smallest number of states of the six zones in the federation," explains Nnamdi Obasi, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group.

He says that there has only been one Igbo president and one Igbo vice president since Nigeria declared independence from the UK in 1960.

Pro-Biafrans also complain that the federal government is not funding enough infrastructure development in the region, despite a recent announcement by the federal Minister of Power, Works and Housing that road construction will be completed in the southeast.

The southeastern region of Nigeria has five states, while other regions have more.

"They certainly are at a disadvantaged position now," Obasi says. "The political configuration of the country ensures that less federal allocation gets to the southeast."

Nigeria's national economics is closely tied to its politics. Nigeria is a highly centralised federalism that relies on revenue from oil sales. Money trickles down from the central government and more money flows towards regions that have more state and local governments.

A recent poll conducted by SBM Intelligence, a local research group, found that the pro-Biafra movement is gaining popularity in the southeast and that this growth could be a reaction to the perception that the region is marginalised and economically deprived.

"So the Nigerian government has to be seen clearly as carrying the region along," Cheta Nwanze, a lead researcher at SBM Intelligence, says.

But pro-Biafrans like Amah have written off the Nigerian federal government and, in particular, the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

"Buhari hates the southeast because we didn't vote for him," says Chukwudi Diru, a taxi driver with a mini Biafran flag taped to the dashboard of his 2003 car.

In his landmark 2015 election victory, Buhari garnered the least amount of votes in the southernmost and southeastern region.

Buhari commented on this during a visit to the United States shortly after his win. During an address at the United States Institute of Peace, Buhari responded to a participant in the audience who asked how he would bring development to the oil-rich Niger Delta region in the south, which has suffered decades of environmental degradation due to oil spills and oil bunkering.

"I hope you have a copy of the election results," Buhari responded to the woman. "Naturally, the constituencies that gave me 97 percent cannot, in all honesty, be treated [in the same way] on some issues with constituencies that gave me five percent. I think this is a political reality."

Buhari's soundbite has been tagged and re-posted across Nigeria's social media spaces.

"To be honest, things like the president's 97 percent and five percent comment only helped add further fuel to the fire that the southeast is being marginalised," Nwanze says.

And that fire is already burning in the southeast. On storefronts along the streets of Umuahia, photos of Nnamdi Kanu and Odumegwu Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, the leader of the short-lived Republic of Biafra (1967-1970) are pasted on wooden doorframes.

At the campus of Amah's university, more students are reading pro-Biafran books and followers of Kanu hold "evangelism" meetings to preach the gospel of pro-Biafra.

At crowded bus stations in town, Kanu's voice booms from loudspeakers. Many people here mark May 30 as Biafra Remembrance Day.
Lawrence Akpu, centre, fought on the Biafran side during the 1967-1970 Nigerian-Biafran War and suffered a spinal cord injury. He is part of the Disabled Biafran War Veterans group [Chika Oduah/Al Jazeera]
A bloody past

Kanu and leaders of other pro-Biafra groups have called for supporters to stay at home on May 30 to remember those who died during the 1967-1970 Nigerian-Biafran War.

This May 30 will mark 50 years since the 1967 declaration of the Republic of Biafra, by the late Ojukwu.

The declaration of the establishment of the Biafra nation, carved out of southeastern Nigeria, came after failed attempts by the Nigerian government to address the grievances expressed by southeastern Nigerians. In 1966, thousands (PDF) of Igbo civilians were killed, mainly in northern Nigeria.

The 1966 killings began after a group of young army officers - some of whom were Igbo Christians -overthrew Nigeria's democratic government and assassinated several people, including the prime minister and other Muslim northern leaders.

"They came with every dangerous thing, some with arrow, some with gun, some with cutlasses, some with iron. So anything they could handle, they handled it and began to kill Igbo people," says Lawrence Akpu, recalling the day in 1966 when he was in a market in a town in northern Nigeria where he lived with fellow Igbos. "Everybody started running up and down and from there, we left everything we had."

Akpu joined the mass exodus of Igbo people from northern Nigeria to their ancestral homeland in the southeast.

When the war started, he joined a Biafran brigade to fight Nigerian soldiers. He says he fought wearing rubber sandals and t-shirts with holes in them. During a heavy wave of shelling, a piece of shrapnel cut into his spinal cord. Today, he's in a wheelchair.

Three years of war left southeastern Nigeria in ruins. Estimates of the death toll range from one million to six million. After the Nigerian federal military government - supported by the UK - imposed blockades that made it difficult for aid groups to deliver food and relief supplies to Biafra, many children died of kwashiorkor, a severe form of malnutrition characterised by a distended abdomen.

Igwe Christopher Ejiofor, aide-de-camp to Ojukwu throughout the war, remembers carrying nearly dead children as he helped to manage relief services.

"I can't count the number of people I picked [up] who were at the point of starvation and death," he says. "And every time I took them to the hospital, they died and I [would go] back the next day [with more children]." Igwe Ejiofor is the traditional ruler of his community in the southeastern state of Enugu.

When images of Biafran children flooded Western media, the world began to pay attention. Beatles singer-songwriter John Lennon returned his MBE order in protest at the UK's involvement in the Nigerian-Biafran War. Writer Kurt Vonnegut travelled to Biafra and wrote about the war. Steve Jobs, according to Walter Isaacson's 2011 biography of the Apple co-founder, began to question his beliefs about God after he saw a picture of two skeletal Biafran children on the infamous July 12, 1968 cover of Life magazine. In the wake of what unfolded in Biafra, doctors and journalists formed Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF.
Igwe Christopher Ejiofor served as the aide-de-camp to the leader of the short-lived Republic of Biafra, Odumegwu Ojukwu [Chika Oduah/Al Jazeera]
Biafra today

The war ended in January 1970 with the surrender of the Republic of Biafra, which dissolved and was reincorporated into Nigeria. The federal government' s "no victor, no vanquished policy" was promoted to foster national unity.

But today, the pro-Biafra movement is back and louder than ever.

Dozens of pro-Biafra activists were arrested last week in cities across southeastern Nigeria.

Last year's May 30 Biafra Remembrance Day ended in what Amnesty International described as part of a "chilling crackdown" that left at least 60 peaceful pro-Biafran activists dead at the hands of Nigerian security forces. An investigation by the organisation revealed that more than 150 pro-Biafrans were killed from August 2015 to August 2016.

"The night before the rally, the security forces raided homes and a church where IPOB members were sleeping," the report reads.

Amnesty International has released a statement recommending that the Nigerian security forces not repress today's Biafra Remembrance Day activities.

Nigerian federal government officials say the country must remain united.

"They say that secession is the answer to the charges of marginalisation," said Acting President Yemi Osinbajo during a Biafra civil forum last week in Abuja. "Brothers and sisters, permit me to differ and to suggest that we're greater together than apart."

But people like Amah and Kanu no longer identify as Nigerians. They say Nigeria has failed them. They are Biafrans.

And with that Kanu stands up and goes outside to meet the people who have waited hours to see him.

Source: Al Jazeera
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/05/50-years-nigeria-biafra-secessionist-movement-170529151102396.html

tell us

fulanimafia:


We are watching...

you've been watching since he left kuje. happy viewing

fulanimafia:


Another reason why the choppers might be hovering over his head right now.

after that what next?

Zikaviirus:


I have none as friends in my life; and I have advised my wife and children. I'm thinking about refusing to do business with them.

Good!

salford:

dont just unfriend. Recall your house of rep and senate members, pack your stuff and leave the SW while you are at it...then we would start taking you Igbos serious.lol

the last time we left you guys declared police action. now, who is fooling who?

fulanimafia:


Any indiscretion or violation of his bail conditions.

In case you've not realized, NK is not yet a free man but an accused detainee released on BAIL subject to certain stringent conditions.

haven't you seen him in a group of more than 10?

fulanimafia:


It's not likely the purpose is to spy on him, but for monitoring and surveillance (to make him and his followers aware that they're being closely monitored) so as to nip things in the bud.

what are they nipping in the bud?

Fellow Biafrans, i urge you all to remove/unfriend all yorubas on your friends list on every social media platform especially facebook. These people are pure evil

i edited my profile on facebook yesterday to judiasm

Westmorland:


Mumunatu I've lived in 7 states in Nigeria both north and south & travelled a lot. So don't say wat u don't know

But you claimed those worshipers in the picture were IPOB member without prove. Ore, you need to travel to Nnobi town in Anambra state to see this temple then you can judge if these people are IPOB

Afonja be like, "ha, he granted interview to foreign journalist, Binta nyako must hear this"

Nnamdi Kanu walks slowly across the courtyard of his family home in Umuahia, southeast Nigeria, as a crowd of supporters in the red, black and green of the Biafran flag hail him as their saviour. Eighteen months in custody does not appear to have affected his fight against Nigeria. "I am more determined than ever," Kanu, who heads the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement, tells AFP calmly. Kanu, who was released on bail at the end of April, still faces trial on treason charges. But there is no question of his remaining silent as a key date approaches on Tuesday: the 50th anniversary of the declaration of an independent Republic of Biafra.

The secession of the Igbo people in the southeast sparked a bloody civil war that lasted nearly three years until 1970. More than one million people died of the effects of war, famine and disease. Kanu says his aim is "civil disobedience until we get a referendum (on self-determination)", calling it "the only way forward".
- 'Deliberate' retribution -
After the war, Biafra was reintegrated into Nigeria, an ethnic and religious hotch-potch of nearly 190 million people where sectarian tensions regularly flare. But in "Igboland", the dream of independence never really disappeared, fuelled by a sense that the Nigerian government had abandoned them -- perhaps deliberately -- after the conflict.
Veterans and young supporters crowd around in turn to hear the bespectacled Kanu speak. In the living room where he receives guests, a life-size painting covering an entire wall depicts the prodigal son in military uniform. He variously denounces what he says are the "killings" and "rapes" of Igbos by the security forces, and President Muhammadu Buhari's "deliberate policy to impoverish the people". Kanu, who is in his 40s, spent his childhood in Umuahia, which was the former Biafran capital, a stone's throw from the separatist forces' bunker, and was clearly no stranger to politics. He refuses to give his exact age but as the eldest of five children, he grew up from a young age with stories from his father, who gave logistic support to the resistance.
- 'Demi-god persona' -
Unknown to most Nigerians even two years ago, Kanu had long launched virulent diatribes against Nigeria from London, where he settled after his studies and founded the pirate radio station Radio Biafra in 2009. He worked in real estate and campaigned on the airwaves at night. For a time he was a member of another pro-independence group, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra. He left MASSOB and founded IPOB in 2013. Two years later at the World Igbo Congress in Los Angeles, Kanu crossed a line with an apparent call to take up arms. "We need guns and we need bullets," he said. He was arrested at his hotel during a visit to Nigeria in October 2015.
Fred Anibeze, a Nigerian political scientist, called the arrest "unwarranted and uncalled for". "He is using the Biafra struggle to garner cheap publicity for himself via broadcast from Radio Biafra, and this has been further buttressed with the demi-god persona he has been getting since his release," he told AFP. Kanu's detention caused widespread anger among Igbos, and a series of protests calling for his release ended in bloodshed.
According to Amnesty International, Nigerian security forces killed at least 150 IPOB supporters in 2016. Abuja flatly rejects the claim. For Don Okereke, a security analyst, Kanu "embodies aspirations of a new generation, more activist, more radical" than their elders, who fought in the war. "He tells people just what they want to hear," he added.
- Lost tribe of Israel -
The extent of Kanu's support in the southeast of the country is difficult to gauge but his followers have virtually worshipped him since his release on bail. Kanu does not do anything to stop the myth-making and is protected round the clock by an impressive security detail, who thoroughly search all his visitors. Religion is ever-present in his speeches, and Kanu now wears the talit (Jewish prayer shawl) and observes the sabbath. IPOB followers also wear the kippah (skullcap). It all dates back to a "divine revelation" Kanu says he had during a trip to Jerusalem: the Igbo -- most of whom are Christian -- are descendents of a lost tribe of Israel, he says. Biafra is the "promised land" and it is his mission to restore it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-4551182/Nnamdi-Kanu-new-voice-pro-Biafra-independence.html

Westmorland:

Have ever heard of or seen these people before now?
Of course these are all ipob members, if they can dress in biafran flag attire wats difficult in doing the same in Jewish attire. Bunch of jokers

that's why we advise that you travel and leave that oshogbo for once. you don't stay in those IDP camps and know what is happening in other parts of the country

gnykelly:

your hatred is legendary hope you and your family are not living in SW. we are liberal and dont want haters

don't judge me cos you don't know the reasons for my action. A supposedly friend of mine Bimbo had to stop talking to me way back in 2013 or thereabout simply because i told her i support the disintegration of this useless, God-forsaken,islamic entity called the nigeria. The same thing with another yoruba guy Kazeem.....So, since you guys are against my freedom, i don't think i should have anything to do with you.