LAGOS — Protesters in southeastern Nigeria are demanding the release of a jailed radio station chief who advocates restoration of the nation of Biafra and its independence from Nigeria.

Nnamdi Kanu, director of Radio Biafra, was arrested last month by Nigeria’s secret police. A spokesman for the agency could not be located prior to publication, but local media reports say
Kanu was charged with offenses related to his station's broadcasts.

A civil war over the self-styled Republic of Biafra ended in 1970, but the cause, which has persisted for decades and remains a sensitive issue, has seen a recent resurgence.

A spokesman for the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra chapter in southeastern Anambra state, Ugochukwu Chinweuba, says their goal is independence.

“We don’t want to be in Nigeria anymore. We want to be on our own,” he said.

Forty-five years after the end of the civil war, Chinweuba says people in the southeast have not benefited from being part of Africa’s most populous country.

“Everyone knows that what Nigeria have, like crude oil and resources of anything, comes from Biafra land," he said.

"And we do not benefit anything of [it].”

Sporadic pro-Biafra rallies over the past few years have occasionally led to arrests. The government banned Radio Biafra in July.

Laja Odukoya, a lecturer in political science at the University of Lagos, says the protests are a symptom of Nigeria’s economic problems. Like much of the rest of Nigeria, rates of unemployment and poverty are high in the southeast.

“Biafra, for me, is not necessarily a situation whereby you have a secessionism, but calling attention to the dysfunctionalism within the state and the need to address it,” Odukoya said.

The Biafran war remains a dark and controversial chapter of Nigeria’s history. The three-year conflict killed over a million people, many of them from starvation.

http://m.voanews.com/a/nigeria-protesters-demand-release-jailed-radio-biafra-director/3053340.html

This tribe nawa you oo.
Everything bad comes from this tribe
social vices such as prostitution,arm robbery,drug trafficking etc. Are being done by people of this tribe.
This tribe is not of any value to NIGERIA.
This same tribe want their republic in the name of BIAFRA.
NIGERIA why don't you leave this tribe to go on their own and perish,so that Nigeria will be great again and sinless country.
NIGERIA said capital ''NO''
so preposterous

okay

BUHARI IS MAKING BIAFRA MORE POPULAR IN THE GLOBAL WORLD. LET HIM JUST RELEASE NNAMDI KANU NOW BEFORE IT GETS OUT OF HAND.

FireE:
BUHARI IS MAKING BIAFRA MORE POPULAR IN THE GLOBAL WORLD. LET HIM JUST RELEASE NNAMDI KANU NOW BEFORE IT GETS OUT OF HAND.

U are right,but little did Buhari know how popular he is making BIAFRA and how he makes NNaMdi KALu a hero.they will soon know it may be to late then.

FireE:
BUHARI IS MAKING BIAFRA MORE POPULAR IN THE GLOBAL WORLD. LET HIM JUST RELEASE NNAMDI KANU NOW BEFORE IT GETS OUT OF HAND.

U are right,but little did Booohari know how popular he is making BIAFRA and how he makes NNaMdi KALu a hero.they will soon know it may be too late then.

lalasticlala do the needful

all we are saying give us kanu!!!

The so-called Voice Of America didn't give a detailed account of this....l sense the usual Waste media propaganda

Buhari shld release nnamdi kanu and come up with any charges if he hv any so that we can see. It is evil that in democratic society like ours..a court will grant somebody bail and d president will order his further detention. Why did the court grant him bail @ the 1st place? Release him and charge him to court lets see ur charges. #freennamdikanu now

Biafrs gradually going international....

Biafra gradually going international....

denisbath:
This tribe nawa you oo.
Everything bad comes from this tribe
social vices such as prostitution,arm robbery,drug trafficking etc. Are being done by people of this tribe.
This tribe is not of any value to NIGERIA.
This same tribe want their republic in the name of BIAFRA.
NIGERIA why don't you leave this tribe to go on their own and perish,so that Nigeria will be great again and sinless country.
NIGERIA said capital ''NO''
so preposterous

. Misterious death awaits you brother Denis. See ur triangular head. Accursed foool

denisbath:
This tribe nawa you oo.
Everything bad comes from this tribe
social vices such as prostitution,arm robbery,drug trafficking etc. Are being done by people of this tribe.
This tribe is not of any value to NIGERIA.
This same tribe want their republic in the name of BIAFRA.
NIGERIA why don't you leave this tribe to go on their own and perish,so that Nigeria will be great again and sinless country.
NIGERIA said capital ''NO''
so preposterous

Pls don't forget to mention the tribe that champion:

Ritual killing
Rape
Fraud(oluwole)
Incest etc

ARIZONA123:
. Misterious death awaits you brother Denis. See ur triangular head. Accursed foool

I think you misunderstood him.

The world is now aware

athaboi:
Buhari shld release nnamdi kanu and come up with any charges if he hv any so that we can see. It is evil that in democratic society like ours..a court will grant somebody bail and d president will order his further detention. Why did the court grant him bail @ the 1st place? Release him and charge him to court lets see ur charges. #freennamdikanu now

The bolded words represent the key reason why Biafra will NEVER remain in Nigeria.
How can we be in a country that dusted up a fossil -man who ruled Nigeria as a military dictator 30 (THIRTY) years ago- to run things in this century
On top of that, the man has NO WAEC certificate. How can he understand court and judicial processes
Biafra's march to freedom is unstoppable!

RisingSun1:
Pls don't get to mention the tribe that champion:

Ritual killing
Rape
Fraud(oluwole)
Incest etc

where this one come from.
Maybe from another planet.

ARIZONA123:
. Misterious death awaits you brother Denis. See ur triangular head. Accursed foool

No bro,The mysterious death that kill ur father,U are the next person that the mysterious death will open his door.
Foooool open ur hand and embrace the death.