NORTHERN pressure group the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has warned the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) to desist from calling on cultural groups in the Middle Belt to join it in its protests.
Ipob is engaged in a running battle with the federal government over the arrest of its leader Nnamdi Kanu who was...
SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) is stepping up pressure on other self-determination groups from other parts of the country to join it in enforcing a nationwide shutdown on October 1.
This Friday, Nigeria will be marking her 61st independence day and with political tension across the country high,...
SEVERAL Nigerian civil society groups plan to hold a 1m man march in New York during the United Nations General Assembly's (UNGA) 76th session in September where they will demand the abolition of Nigeria's constitution and the right to self-determination.
Since 2015 when President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office, calls for...
REGIONAL body the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has rejected the position of the Southern Governors Forum that the south should produce the next president of Nigeria come 2023 saying there should be no automatic rotation.
Although not constitutional, Nigeria's component parts have a gentleman's agreement that the presidency...
BRITAIN has adjusted its asylum rules on Nigeria recognising that members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) and other secessionist groups are facing persecution from the federal government and is now offering them political asylum visas.
Nigeria has designated Ipob a terrorist organisation and this characterisation...
NIGERIA'S Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has dissociated itself from the recent attempt by the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers Association (AUFCDA) to block the movements of food items from northern Nigeria to the south of the country.
Over the weekend, AUFCDN decided to stop the transportation of food items to...
SEVERAL elder statesmen have expressed regret at what they call the presidency's childish response to recent comments by former president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo who criticised the government for sowing division among Nigerians.
At a recent book launch attended by socio-political groups, Chief Obasanjo said Nigeria had...