EasternLionn:

Hundreds of people in southern Nigeria have been protesting about the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, an activist who supports the creation of a breakaway state of Biafra.
The director of Radio Biafra was arrested last month and is still being held despite a court order to free him, his mainly ethnic Igbo supporters say.
The government says his station has been operating without a licence.
Biafran secessionists fought a three-year civil war that ended in 1970.
More than one million people lost their lives before the uprising was eventually quelled by the military.
Secessionist groups have attracted the support of many young people in the south-east in recent years.
The BBC's Abdussalam Ahmed in the southern-eastern city of Enugu says in reality they do not want a repeat of the civil war but are keen to draw the attention of the central government to some developmental challenges the region faces.
Africa Live: BBC news updates
Our correspondent says the peaceful protests started on Friday in the oil-rich Delta state and has since taken place in five other major cities in the region.
The demonstrators are mostly young men holding Biafra flags and banners with pictures of Mr Kanu, who is also a leader in the secessionist Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Tuesday's march is taking place in the city of Owerri in Imo state a day after the region's biggest market in the city of Aba was reportedly shut down by protesters.
A Pro Biafra protester in southern Nigeria on Sunday 8 November, 2015



Nnamdi Kanu has been in the custody of Nigeria's intelligence agency for more than three weeks
"We won't give up until our director Nnamdi Kanu is released," one protester told our reporter during a protest in Enugu.
The Biafra activists say a court in the capital, Abuja, ordered the release of Mr Kanu but authorities have refused to comply despite all the conditions set being met.
It is not clear where Radio Biafra is based but it mainly broadcasts to the Igbo-speaking south-east of the country.
The Nigerian government began jamming its signals in July but it is still available online and via mobile phones by a dialling a local number, our reporter says.
An IPOB leader, Uchemna Madu, told the BBC that the group was fighting against the "injustice and inequality" ethnic Igbos faced in Nigeria.
"We believe in Nigeria, we have businesses everywhere in the country but we are getting nothing apart from political and social marginalisation," he said.
"Our lives and properties are not secured, we want to live on our own."
The Nigerian authorities have always maintained that most of the issues the Biafra activists are complaining about are not unique to southern part of the country.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34777835

Cc Lalasticlala, Obinoscopy

Truckpusher:
Buhari is a disgrace to democracy and with the way he's going it is just a matter of time before he will give credence to these agitators and it would be too late to stop, then we will understand what we have brought upon ourselves by voting in a man who once truncated our first democracy with zero respect for democratic institutes,principles and basic human right.


Somebody should tell Buhari to respect the rule of law and democratic principles, else this country can't survive two armed conflict in two different parts of her borders.

abduljabbar4:


Bastard. You will get biafra in your dreams

naijapips02:



That is why you need the maturity of purpose. Do you know the number of tribes in say italy, or even the US?

We need to see ourselves pass the ethnic tags we've drawn ourselves in. We might never totally defeat it, but at least some of us should show others the maturity of mind that this nation deserves.

That is the Beauty of democracy. if buhari is stealing everything and taking it to the north, he has just 4 years. After that, we can align with the yorubas and make sure he's dethroned. We need to start creating political inroads in Nigeria.

I forever maintain that Nigeria is bigger of a price for the igbos to conquer than Biafra.

virud:


Conspiracy at best!
Some peeps also believe that BH was created (by some northern element) to trouble a southy Presido!
Because many people are saying the same thing will not and cannot make it true if it weren't the truth (before).

abduljabbar4:


Bastard. You will get biafra in your dreams

HIGHESTPOPORI:
Or rather the Lawyer of Kanu keeps shouting they have fulfilled d bail conditions but the Federal Govt is stil holding him against his right!No wonder Biafrans call this place a Zoo

TheMainMan:
why do i feel this biafra ish is pdp sponsored to frustrate buhari's government... ....

MIPNIG:
Buhari just made this t.wat a global star... Look at the name tag - human right activist? What nonsense. I am Igbo and Kanu does not represent my believe. Change in name is not same as calling for accountability of leaders. This movement would have first of all focused on our regional leaders to account for the allocations they have mismanaged under Nigeria. This movement would have proposed a weaker federal government under Nigeria and call for regional resource control in order to drive healthy competition across board.

Instead, this british citizen called Kanu is calling for guns and bullets and hatred for other tribes. This is absolute rubbish.

speedyGonzales:
well, it is slowly gaining international attention! It will become a bigger problem than, If Buhari just let their leader go and met with them, gave them fake promises and bribe the main leaders!


hahaha!

TheMainMan:
why do i feel this biafra ish is pdp sponsored to frustrate buhari's government... ....

Ioannes:


what is the name of the level 16 civil servant that stood bail for him

TheMainMan:
why do i feel this biafra ish is pdp sponsored to frustrate buhari's government... ....

Idrismusty97:
Thank God those pictures would be in color this time around.

iconaus:


U re lost . Nnandi is gift to Ndigbo. I doubt if u ve listened to him . He is all rounder and super being if u think u re smart or intelligent listen to him and compare . See the demostration going on ffor him that alone tells whom he is . This demostration is greatest in africa in recent time .

abduljabbar4:


Bastard. You will get biafra in your dreams

TheMainMan:
why do i feel this biafra ish is pdp sponsored to frustrate buhari's government... ....

abduljabbar4:


Bastard. You will get biafra in your dreams

TheMainMan:
why do i feel this biafra ish is pdp sponsored to frustrate buhari's government... ....

TheMainMan:
why do i feel this biafra ish is pdp sponsored to frustrate buhari's government... ....