Popular Biafra agitator and separatist, Simon Ekpa has assured Niger Republic of Biafra’s support if Nigeria explores military intervention to remove coupists in the country. He also backed the ...

Nigeria's conflict with separatists calling for an independent state, known as Biafra, has escalated in recent months. The leader of the main pro-Biafra group, Nnamdi Kanu, was released on bail in ...

Kanu has long championed the secession of Nigeria’s south-east region, a demand the Nigerian constitution forbids. The last ...

ABUJA, Nigeria-- Nigerian separatists have hijacked a merchant ship and threatened to blow it up with its foreign crew if authorities do not release a detained leader agitating for a breakaway state ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The security services claim the IPOB is securing weapons and uniforms and creating ...

The celebration of Biafran Day in memory of Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu turned sour Monday in Anambra, as the military, police, members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) clashed, killing ...

The Biafra National Guard (BNG), has declared that the Nigerian military can “go to hell” because it would defend people of the South East. BNG made the declaration while faulting the decision of the ...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's armed forces said on Friday a group campaigning for the secession of a part of southeastern Nigeria formerly known as Biafra had been categorized as a "terrorist ...

The umbrella body of Ijaw youths, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide, has sounded a note of warning to Simon Ekpa and his group of Biafra agitators to steer clear of the Niger Delta, saying that ...

Nigerian security forces have killed at least 150 pro-Biafra supporters, some by extrajudicial executions, since August 2015, according to Amnesty International. In a report published Thursday, the ...

On July 7, 1967, when the Nigerian civil war began, the censors of the federal military government stamped out all use of the phrase “civil war" in news dispatches going overseas. The Nigerians ...