In a bid to restore security in the southeast, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Wednesday said the air component of Operation Udo Ka II has successfully dismantled several hideouts of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) in Imo and Anambra states. ESN is the paramilitary outfit of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). In…
A secessionist group agitating for the Biafra Republic from Nigeria, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said it will not disband its militant arm, Eastern Security Network (ESN). The IPOB made this known in a statement by Emma Powerful, the group’s spokesperson and made available to newsmen on Monday. The group, while reacting to…
A suspected hideout of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) has been raided by the troops of the Nigerian Army attached to the 6 Division in Delta State, while arresting one fighter during the raid. According to a counter-insurgency publication focused on the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama said the raid was conducted on Saturday in…
Barely hours to the presidential and NASS polls, the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, said that the activities of terrorists, bandits, and members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and the Eastern Security Network, ESN portend a challenge for the 2023 general elections. The IGP stated this at a media briefing in…
The Lead Counsel to Pro-separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB), Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor has stated that its leader, Nnamdi Kanu needs urgent advanced medical treatment and surgical operation to address his deteriorating health condition, especially on his left ear. Ejiofor stated this when he visited Kanu on Monday at the headquarters of the Department of…
Three persons suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed affiliate Eastern Security Network (ESN) have been killed by the the police in a gun duel in a foiled attack on Agwa Police station in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State. However, the hoodlums succeeded in burning down…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has on Monday said it had no plan to call for the boycott of 2023 general election, while maintaining that it has no interest in Nigerian politics. It insisted that its agitation remained the total freedom of Ndigbo through a referendum. In a statement by its spokesman Emma Powerful,…
The Nigerian troops have arrested a deputy commander of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who allegedly killed political adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak. The suspect, Nwagwu Chiwendu, was arrested on Tuesday during the burial of his father at Mbaise in Imo state, Nigeria’s South-east. Informant247 gathered that the suspect, Chiwendu, deserted…
The Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB) has denied involvement in the razing of Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) offices as well as other crimes levelled against it. Emma Powerful, the spokesperson of IPOB, said in a statement yesterday that the allegations were meant to disparage and blackmail the group, while stressing that the blackmail would not make…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has denied the arrest of a suspected bandit, Okechukwu Nlebedum, alias Ejima, by Directorate of State Services (DSS) last Wednesday as a commander of its Eastern Security Network (ESN), saying Ejima was among Orlu youths in Imo State misusing the name of ESN. This is contained in a statement…
The Ebonyi State Police have reportedly killed gunmen suspected to be members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)/Eastern Security Network (ESN) during a raid on the gunmen’s camp on Wednesday while also arrested one and recovered thirteen military handgrenades suspected to have been fabricated in Russia and other items. Police Public Relations Officer…
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu has has said that the new self-acclaimed IPOB leader Simon Ekpa who ordered a recent 5-day sit-at-home in the South-East region is not working for him. Kanu made this known through a statement issued by his lead lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, adding that the Ekpa’s…
Police in Ebonyi has disclosed that the commission has uncovered the biggest bomb factory in the South-East which belongs to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and Eastern Security Network (ESN). The Command said the IPOB/ESN bomb factory was located at Obegu, a boundary area between Onicha-Isu and Ishielu Local government areas of Ebonyi State….
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said that it does not have interest in the 2023 general elections and that it does not have the intention to disrupt the elections. IPOB made this revelation in a signed statement released by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful on Monday. IPOB, according to the spokesperson, has said it…
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has disputed the claim that members of the body were kidnappers. The group affirmed that it has no connection with kidnappers. IPOB said the claim of the Katsina State Police Command that it kidnapped one of the members of its military arm militia, otherwise known as the Eastern Security…
Mike Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, has called on the federal government to immediately release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. This came as a reaction to Kanu’s discharge by the Court of Appeal in Abuja, the nation’s capital on Thursday. A senior counsel to the leader of…
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, did not direct Southeasterners to sit-at-home on 4th day of October, 2022 or any other day he is to appear in court, a statement issued yesterday by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)lead counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has said. He urged members of the general public to go about their normal business activities…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has sent message of warning to the Federal Government to stay away from connecting it to attacks being carried out in the Southeastern zone of Nigeria. The Informant247 reports that the federal government had on several occasions accused the secessionist group and its security wing, the Eastern Security Network,…
The Imo State Government has reduced to nothing, the threat issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ahead of the visit of the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari. The Informant247 observes that president Buhari is planning to visit the state on Tuesday. While reacting to the threat at a press conference in Owerri, the capital…
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, weekend, fires back at the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN. IPOB has claimed that the herders’ group is a known architect and breeder of many terrorists groups victimizing the country since the inception of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015. IPoB made this revelation in reaction to…
