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US, UK Reject Nigeria's Bid to Label IPOB as Terrorists

The United Kingdom and the United States have formally declined requests from the Federal Government of Nigeria to designate the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as an international terrorist organisation.

This decision, confirmed by several high-level diplomatic sources, represents a major setback for Nigerian authorities who have long sought international support to justify classifying this separatist group.

The Nigerian government, under President Muhammadu Buhari, added IPOB to its list of terrorist organizations in 2017, following increased agitation in favor of creating an independent Biafran state in the southeast of the country. The group, led by Nnamdi Kanu, who is currently detained, denies any involvement in acts of terrorism and maintains that its struggle for self-determination is peaceful, although it is accused of being linked to some armed violence in the region.

Since being designated a terrorist organization, Nigerian security forces have waged a protracted and often violent crackdown on members of IPOB and its armed vigilante wing, the Eastern Security Network (ESN). This conflict has resulted in numerous casualties and widespread allegations of human rights abuses.

The Nigerian government has repeatedly pressured its key Western allies, including the United States and the United Kingdom, to support its national designation, arguing that such a move would cripple the international funding and moral support the group receives abroad.

According to sources within the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the US State Department, these requests were carefully considered but ultimately rejected.

A spokesperson for the British government said, “The UK takes a rigorous, evidence-based approach to designating organizations as terrorist.” While we recognize the complexity of the security challenges in southeastern Nigeria, our current assessment is that IPOB does not meet the legal criteria to be banned under UK law. We encourage all parties to pursue peaceful and inclusive dialogue to resolve the underlying grievances.

A US State Department official echoed this view; “Our designation of foreign terrorist organizations is a powerful tool based on specific criteria. In Nigeria, our priority remains supporting comprehensive approaches that address security, governance, and economic issues, while ensuring the human rights of all citizens.”

Political analyst, Paul Bala told Gazette Africa that the decision as indicative of a broader Western perspective that categorizes the situation in southeastern Nigeria as a complex mix of separatist unrest, crime, and state-sponsored violence, rather than a clearly defined terrorist campaign meeting international definitions.

https://www.gazetteafrica.com/2025/12/us-uk-reject-nigerias-bid-to-label-ipob_11.html

The civilized world knows the real terrorists in Nigeria

IPOB is the most peaceful freedom fighters in the world

The West is not ready to accept the reality on ground.

Zoogeria is trying to label our amiable IPOB a terrorist organization but God pass them.

May all the blood of innocent Igbos wasted in an effort to blackmail IPOB continue to hunt them forever. We Igbos are smart enough to know when people are trying to play our intelligence.

My advice to all the efulefu Igbos who invest outside Igboland is to stop nvesting outside Igbo land.
DONT SAY YOU WERE NOT WARNED
God bless nwa Chineke. God bless dogged MNK
The Nelson Mandela of our time.

Mteeeew IPOB is a terrorist group in Nigeria

chiagozien, Another propaganda, if UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LIKE, LET THEM BRAND IPOB AS WHATEVER THEY LIKE, AS FAR NIGERIA IS CONCERNED, IPOB IS A TERRORIST GROUP AND YOUR LEADER, KANU WILL ROT IN SOKOTO PRISON

No be today wey US and UK go sidon look while we dey fight our own fight.

SpecialAdviser:
Zoogeria is trying to label our amiable IPOB a terrorist organization

Terrorists.

We don't care what America or Britain thinks.

You mess up, we crush you.

Your terrorist leader is in jail.

Tell Britain to come and release him if they dare.

masterfactor:
chiagozien, Another propaganda, if UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LIKE, LET THEM BRAND IPOB AS WHATEVER THEY LIKE, AS FAR NIGERIA IS CONCERNED, IPOB IS A TERRORIST GROUP AND YOUR LEADER, KANU WILL ROT IN SOKOTO PRISON

End of story.

Let TRUMP come and remove Kanu from Sokoto prison since he is "not a terrorist".

We dey wait.

masterfactor:
chiagozien, Another propaganda, if UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LIKE, LET THEM BRAND IPOB AS WHATEVER THEY LIKE, AS FAR NIGERIA IS CONCERNED, IPOB IS A TERRORIST GROUP AND YOUR LEADER, KANU WILL ROT IN SOKOTO PRISON

The now disgraced country will be finally destroyed.




Only lobby about Christian genocide by ipob, your Nigeria is shaking 😋🤪.


What will come next will uproot the contraption called Nigeria.

yarimo:
Mteeeew IPOB is a terrorist group in Nigeria

APC members are terrorists group in civilized Countries.

chiagozien:
The now disgraced country will be finally destroyed.




Only lobby about Christian genocide by ipob, you6 Nigeria is shaking 😋🤪.


What will come next will uproot the contraption called Nigeria.

lol.... gullible people, no wonder their messiah dey chop watery beans for Mogadishu

chiagozien:
APC members are terrorists group in civilized Countries.

Nobody cares what LITTLE CANADA thinks.

NIGERIA IS BIGGER THAN CANADA.

A BIGGER PLAYER THAN CANADA.

TO BLAZES WITH CANADA.

SpecialAdviser:
Zoogeria is trying to label our amiable IPOB a terrorist organization but God pass them.

May all the blood of innocent Igbos wasted in an effort to blackmail IPOB continue to hunt them forever. We Igbos are smart enough to know when people are trying to play our intelligence.

My advice to all the efulefu Jgbos is to seize investing outside Igbo land.
DONT SAY YOU WERE NOT WARNED

If IPOB were not terrorist, why did they murdered an Igbo lmilitary lady with his husband and dismembered the body.

Why did their leader asked them to do cocktail bomb and bomb other region. Why did they enforced sit at home and either kill or harm those who disobey.?

Why did the people flee the region for safety to other region.?

The blood of Akuyili and many other innocent Igbo will continue to cry for justice.

chiagozien:
The now disgraced country will be finally destroyed.




Only lobby about Christian genocide by ipob, you6 Nigeria is shaking 😋🤪.


What will come next will uproot the contraption called Nigeria.

Which lobby , I was expecting by now, The Almighty USA SHOULD HAVE START BOMBARDING NIGERIAN WITH BOMBs ,BECAUSE OF IPOB, SEE WHY SENSE IS FAR FROM YOU. LOBBY THAT IS FLUSH DOWN THE DRAIN, YOU GUYS need to try harder

chiagozien:
The now disgraced country will be finally destroyed.




Only lobby about Christian genocide by ipob, you6 Nigeria is shaking 😋🤪.


What will come next will uproot the contraption called Nigeria.

This is how you lie about history, it's CAN, NC Christian Association and Civil rights groups that petition international community over the genocide and not one year IPOB, a direction less organisation who can't stop sit at home and the killings in their region

The U.S and UK and even Canada governments knows that the real terrorists are APC political party .

Self determination is not terrorism.

Ttalk:
This is how you lie about history, it's CAN, NC Christian Association and Civil rights groups that petition international community over the genocide and not one year IPOB, a direction less organisation who can't stop sit at home and the killings in their region

Lolz the same CAN that said no genocide and later changed mouth.



You are not smart.

Watch your Nigeria minister on national television crying about how Ipob is responsible for Trump actions 👇👇
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CjzCVzFCs/

They are people that know better than you.

masterfactor:
chiagozien, Another propaganda, if UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LIKE, LET THEM BRAND IPOB AS WHATEVER THEY LIKE, AS FAR NIGERIA IS CONCERNED, IPOB IS A TERRORIST GROUP AND YOUR LEADER, KANU WILL ROT IN SOKOTO PRISON

That's why Nigeria is the way it is today, when truth is labeled as lie and lie is labeled as truth, then logic is flipped over its head, Nigeria is the only country in the world that calls IPOB a terrorist group and the same Nigeria does not call Fulani herdsmen terrorist group but the entire world call them 4th most deadliest terrorist group, now you see why insecurity is the way it is in Nigeria ....

HgAkpobomeEr:
The West is not ready to accept the reality on ground.

Your own version of "reality" abi ?? They western world knows that what is happening in the southeast is state sponsored terrorism, but time will tell.

chiagozien:
Lolz the same CAN that said no genocide and later changed mouth.



You are not smart.

Watch your Nigeria minister on national television crying about how Ipob is responsible for Trump actions 👇👇
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CjzCVzFCs/

They are people that know better than you.

Untrained child will always blab. Sit down there and be ranting

masterfactor:
Which lobby , I was expecting by now, The Almighty USA SHOULD HAVE START BOMBARDING NIGERIAN WITH BOMBs ,BECAUSE OF IPOB, SEE WHY SENSE IS FAR FROM YOU. LOBBY THAT IS FLUSH DOWN THE DRAIN, YOU GUYS need to try harder

Go rescue your 11 soldiers in Burkina Faso first 🤣🤣🤣😂

Ttalk:
Untrained child will always blab. Sit down there and be ranting

Lolz he doesn't have data.



Small man you have been noticed, run along.

yarimo:
Mteeeew IPOB is a terrorist group in Nigeria

A country of particular concerns you mean or most disgraceful nation in the world?
Let your painment reduce, kindly do as Oshomole suggested.

Brendaniel:
That's why Nigeria is the way it is today, when truth is labeled as lie and lie is labeled as truth, then logic is flipped over its head, Nigeria is the only country in the world that calls IPOB a terrorist group and the same Nigeria does not call Fulani herdsmen terrorist group but the entire world call them 4th most deadliest terrorist group, now you see why insecurity is the way it is in Nigeria ....

They support evil once is about Igbos,yet they expect Nigeria to get better.



Very anyhow things

Kemetian:
Nobody cares what LITTLE CANADA thinks.

NIGERIA IS BIGGER THAN CANADA.

A BIGGER PLAYER THAN CANADA.

TO BLAZES WITH CANADA.

Burkina Faso is bigger than Nigeria 🤣🤣🤣😂

Sccarrr:
lol.... gullible people, no wonder their messiah dey chop watery beans for Mogadishu

Your 11 Nigeria soldiers dey enjoy the beans in Burkina Faso 🤣🤣😂

chiagozien:
Go rescue your 11 soldiers in Burkina Faso first 🤣🤣🤣😂

PAined IGBOMAN THAT USES NIGERIAN VISA AND STILL FIGHT THE SAME NIGERIA THAT FEEDS YOU. PLEASE TRY AND GET BIAFRAN VISA, E GET WHY😛😛😛😛😛😛😛😛😛