Franklin Okechukwu Bernad

From Jeff Amechi Agbodo and Aloysius Attah, Onitsha Fifty freedom groups pledged  to collapse their umbrellas and form a single front to pursue their life-long goal of achieving Biafra. This was part of the communique released after a unity meeting of Biafran agitiators which held at the weekend in Anambnra State. The pro- Biafran groups also unanimously agreed that Nnamdi Kanu, currently in Kuje Prison, Abuja  has paid his dues and must be supported by all freedom fighters. The unity meeting which was convened by the Supreme Council of Elders of IPOB and presided over by the Vice-Chairman of the Elders’ Council of their group, Dr Dozie Ikedife, held in Nnewi, hometown of the late head of state of the defunct Peoples’ Republic of Biafra, Lt Col Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. In an  address, Mr. Anthony Aniebue, administrator of the customary government of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), described the unity meeting as a milestone and charged members...

                                                                                                                                                                      END OF COLONIAL RULE AND INDEPENDENCE Britain colonized and ruled Nigeria for sixty years. Between 1900-1960.   During the sixty years of British rule, there were reclassification of different regions for administrative purposes, mainly The Northern, Southern and Western Regions. The regions was established with the aim of uniting the country as a single state. In 1912 Sir Fredrick Lugard is appoi...

My attention has been drawn to a report in the Guardian of the U.K. alleging that the former Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan rebuffed efforts by the British military to rescue the kidnapped Chibok Girls sometime in 2014.  Nothing could be further from the truth and to prove that this story from the Guardian is untrue, the international community will recall that when a Boko Haram affiliate kidnapped a Briton and an Italian, Chris McManus and Franco Lamolinara, from Birnin Kebbi in Kebbi state of Nigeria, then President Jonathan personally authorized British Special Forces from the British Military Special Boat Service, to attempt a rescue mission in Sokoto state on the 8th of March, 2012 a full two years before the Chibok Girls Saga. The British Military sent boots to the ground and these troops were given full and unhindered cooperation by both the then Nigerian government and the Nigerian military. This already shows that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan had...