Nigerian intelligence agents have arrested a broadcaster calling for the peaceful secession of the southeast from Nigeria, according to two Biafra separatist groups whose cause prompted a civil war in the 1960s that killed an estimated 1 million people.

Radio Biafra director Nnamdi Kanu was detained Saturday as he was about to fly to London from Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, said the Indigenous People of Biafra and the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra.

It was not immediately possible to get comment from the Department of State Security.

In July, President Muhammadu Buhari's government said it had jammed Radio Biafra's signal because it is unlicensed but the station is still able to broadcast, airing grievances of the Igbo people. The Igbos fought a civil war to form an independent nation called Biafra in the late 1960s that killed about 1 million people, mostly Igbos from conflict-induced famine.

Unresolved issues from the war including appropriated property that has not been returned remain sore points. Groups including Radio Biafra continue to claim the tribe is discriminated against and they agitate for independence. Many Igbos who fled into exile have not returned home.

Eleven pro-Biafra activists have been in detention since last year on charges of alleged treason, which is a capital offense in this West African nation.

Nigeria is fighting an Islamic uprising in the northeast that has killed 20,000 people in six years, resurging militancy in the southern oil-rich Niger Delta and the central Middle Belt is plagued by violent confrontations over land and water between mainly Muslim nomadic cattle herders and sedentary farmers who are mostly Christians.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nigerian-intelligence-arrests-biafran-separatist-leader-34569436

"Nigerian intelligence agents have arrested a broadcaster calling for the peaceful secession of the southeast from Nigeria."


The earlier the dullard from daura and his army release Kanu, the better for him.

Nigerian intelligence agents have arrested a broadcaster calling for the peaceful secession of the southeast from Nigeria, according to two Biafra separatist groups whose cause prompted a civil war in the 1960s that killed an estimated 1 million people.

First lie, peaceful secession?? And to top it off they said it's because of 1960

Radio Biafra director Nnamdi Kanu was detained Saturday as he was about to fly to London from Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, said the Indigenous People of Biafra and the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra.

I thought he was arrested on arrival?

CNN to follow

When did Nigeria have an "intelligence" agency?

It is the duty of every igbo alive to utilize every means at his disposal to put an end to this misery called Nigeria.. This is not about one Nnamdi Kalu.. This is about fighting for a safe future for our children.. The igbo race is just too big a group to play second fiddle to a bunch of atavistic prehistoric clans whose only goal with One Nigeria is to undercut the igbo while pillaging the resources of the former eastern Nigeria like vintage vandals.. This is a generational challenge and i hope our people will rise up to it..

Sweetguy25:
When did Nigeria have an "intelligence" agency?

i think they were mocking the zoo

Chukwu okike abiama will scatter the intestine of any Heeebo man that does not want to go back to Biafra

All Heeebos are going back to Heeeboland

Er0ticAngela:
Chukwu okike abiama will scatter the intestine of any Heeebo man that does not want to go back to Biafra

All Heeebos are going back to Heeeboland

same old shit.
Every different Day.

The Biafran Question confronted here:
http://www.naijiant.com/articles/the-biafran-question/

We are waiting for the Martian News Agency, alongside the other news agencies, to make DSS more popular for their efficiency and effectiveness.

owobokiri:
It is the duty of every igbo alive to utilize every means at his disposal to put an end to this misery called Nigeria.. This is not about one Nnamdi Kalu.. This is about fighting for a safe future for our children.. The igbo race is just too big a group to play second fiddle to a bunch of atavistic prehistoric clans whose only goal with One Nigeria is to undercut the igbo while pillaging the resources of the former eastern Nigeria like vintage vandals.. This is a generational challenge and i hope our people will rise up to it..

May God bless you for this post. You captured my thoughts exactly. The issue of Biafra is above Nnamdi Kanu; its about the survival of our people. Our culture is being tethered and our identified erased by vandals and never do wells and its imperative for every Igbo man atleast to contribute towards our freedom.

Sweetguy25:
When did Nigeria have an "intelligence" agency?

Lol the thing funny die

This will end up becoming Mr. Buhari biggest internal blunder. The game plan of these guys is to whip up sentiments and this they are getting a huge dose.

We have the problem of Boko Haram which have not been dealt with, and now Biafra.

My advise; let the government charge him to court immediately if they feel he has a case against the state, failure let them leave him alone as up until now they have remained peaceful.