The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has on Thursday announced the cancellation of its sit-at-home order scheduled to commence on November 5, 2021, in the South East, supporting the governorship election in Anambra State. The separatist group has earlier declared a sit-at-home in effort to discourage residents of Anambra from exercising their franchise in the November 6 governorship election in the State.
American billionaire, entrepreneur, and investor, Jeff Bezos, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari climate change agenda and his role in restoring degraded lands in the country. The billionaire who joined the President alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, Prince Charles and Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani at a COP 26 side event described the restoration as exemplary.
A 21-Storey building located on Gerard Road, upmarket Ikoyi in Lagos has collapsed on Monday. Residents of the area have gathered around the building to assist in any way they can. The collapsed structure is said to be a building still under construction.
Troops conducting Exercise Golden Dawn in the South East have neutralized one of the Biafran National Guard gunmen. The incident happened on Thursday when the gunmen attacked the troops’ location at Amaekpu, Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State. A statement by Director, Army Public Relations, Brig-gen Onyema Nwachukwu said, “The assailants, who were heavily armed and conveyed in several vehicles opened fire on the troops’ location, but were met with stiff resistance by the troops.
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the immediate deployment of senior police officers in efforts to Anambra State in efforts to reshuffle the security architecture ahead of the governorship election scheduled for November 6, 2021. Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Frank Mba made this known in a statement titled "Anambra election: IGP overhauls security landscape ahead of poll." in Abuja, saying the redeployment was to ensure peace during the governorship election.
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has kicked against the 7 days sit-at-home order declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) which is planned to commence from November 5, 2021. The Igbo group stressed that the execution of such irrational order will hurt all Igbos. The Igbo Apex socio-cultural group in a statement by its Secretary-General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, said Ndigbo should not obey the order this time. He said, “Ohanaeze Ndigbo has deciphered that any declaration that unleashes untold hardship, leads to the collapse of commercial and industrial activities, boycott of Anambra elections, and interrupts the academic calendar in the Southeastern states is nonsensical, absurd, and anti-Igbo agenda, for the enemy’s amusement. “You can’t enslave Ndigbo for one-week without backlash from them, it’s time for Igbo to rise to the occasion and end being trampled with orders from overseas by those without any investments in the South-East. Isiguzoro said IPOB should discern that there was self-determination struggle in Africa before now. Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in jail and never in the history of the movement against Apartheid was starvation, anguish, and catastrophe unleashed on Black South Africans by ANC.
