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Groups move to report large scale murder, land-grabbing in South East to international community
The Yoruba nation and Igbo Biafra State agitators in Southern Nigeria on Tuesday drew the attention of international community to the ongoing military operations and killings by the Nigerian military forces in the South Eastern parts of the country.
Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Igboho and Simon Ekpa raised the alarm for and on behalf of Yoruba and Biafra.
The groups deplored the illegal operation being carried out in the guise of military as they called on the international community to intervene.
In a statement by the groups which was made available to the Nationalupdate on Tuesday said: “We hereby draw the attention of the global community to the current escalation by the Nigerian Military of mindless violence on a genocidal scale being perpetrated against innocent and unarmed individuals and whole
The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra and of Orileede Yoruba hereby alert the international community that all the acts of aggression and killings by the Nigerian Army in Biafra are motivated by the desperation of the Fulani ethnic nationality, assisted by the Fulani-controlled Federal Government of Nigeria, to destabilize the territory of Biafra in order to facilitate a planned electoral fraud in their planned February 2023 elections through the disfranchisement of large numbers of the people of Biafra.
The robbing of Biafran people of electoral power in their homeland is with a view to ensuring the consolidation of the murderous Fulani regime that holds the nihilist Nigerian state in its grip.
“We also inform the international community that the repeated and often murderous denial of freedom of expression and peaceful demonstration in the territory of Orileede Yoruba are all driven by the ultimate ambition of the Fulani to conquer and subjugate the indigenous peoples of Nigeria and turn their homelands into a Fulani homeland.
”We say to the world that heinous crimes against humanity, including even acts aiming at genocide, are being daily perpetrated among Yoruba and Biafran peoples in the barbarous, destructive and disastrous country called Nigeria.
“An estimated 29,000 innocent and unarmed Yoruba people have been killed in Orileede Yoruba and 1.6 million have been forced to flee into exile in neighboring Benin Republic.
In Biafra, an estimated 45, 000 have been killed, 10,000 are missing, 7000 are illegally held in custody, and over 3 million have been displaced from their homes.
“We announce to the world the firm resolve of Biafran and Yoruba peoples that the unprovoked military aggression by Fulani-led Nigeria in Biafra and Orileede Yoruba shall be jointly resisted with all the means available to our two peoples of Biafra and Orileede Yoruba.
“We inform the international community of the determination of our two peoples to resist most determinedly and to make futile all the violence by the Fulani and the proxy Northern Army of Nigeria.
“Finally, we the peoples of Biafra and Yoruba, together with the hundreds of other indigenous peoples of the South and Middle Belt of Nigeria, call on the international community – the United Nations, the European Union, the BRICS Group of Nations, the African Union, and the world’s most powerful nations of United States of America, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, China and others, to embark without delay on serious investigations of, and intervention in, the perpetual killings and perpetual flow of blood in the land of savagery, poverty and anarchy that is called Nigeria.
“The world and the human race have a desperate duty to exercise the ‘Right to Protect’ in Nigeria, because of Nigeria’s hundreds of indigenous nationalities that are threatened with extermination, theunending cries of mass killings from Nigeria, the genocidal aggression against various nationalities in Nigeria, the destructions of human settlements and farms and other assets of rural life in Nigeria, the massive instances of raping of women for the purpose of degrading the sense of dignity of whole peoples, the relentless acts (such as the burning of marketplaces, the desecration and destruction of churches, mosques and ancestral shrines, the laying of ambushes on roads and highways and the kidnapping of travelers, etc) that are aimed at destroying the economic life and the cultural heritages of various peoples in order to pauperize, destabilize and ultimately wipe them out, the oft-expressed cries from many Nigerian nationalities that they are being targeted for extermination, the official encouragement and assistance by Nigeria’s government of mass influxes of non-Nigerian Fulani into Nigeria from other countries of West Africa for the purpose of reinforcing the Nigerian Fulani capability for aggression, killings and destructions, and the frequent outcries from Nigeria about the complicity of the Nigerian Government in these various crimes against humanity.
“The international community did a great service to humanity by strongly and effectively intervening in similar circumstances in the Darfur province of the Republic of Sudan; the international community did a great service to humanity too by powerfully intervening when
Yugoslavia was going through a massively bloody experience of disintegrating.
“Conditions similar to Darfur’s condition and to Yugoslavia’s experience now reign over Nigeria.
“In the years since 2015 during which the killings, destruction, and the sordid crimes against humanity have escalated steadily in Nigeria, various agencies of the international community have documented and spoken out about these horrid Nigerian conditions.
A United Nations Common Country Analysis (CCA) in 2015 painted a staggeringly gloomy picture of Nigeria, describing Nigeria as a badly “divided” country and as “one of the poorest and the most unequal country in the world”, and adding that, for decades, various Nigerian peoples have cried out their pains of being “dominated”, “oppressed”, “threatened”, or even “targeted for extermination”.
“A United Nations Rapportteur General to Nigeria in 2019 reported that the Constitution under which Nigeria was being governed – the Constitution which a Fulani military dictatorship wrote and decreed in 1999 without any participation or consent by Nigerians– is a “pressure cooker” for misrule, injustice, conflict and national collapse.
“An international agency designated Nigeria in 2018 as the number one home of “extreme poverty” in the world, and another wrote that Nigerians are the poorest in the world in access to electricity, purified water, security, adequate food, reliable public service, and responsive government. Another predicted that fully 50% of the world’s poorest people by 2050 will be Nigerians. Recently, the United States alerted Nigeria that the international terrorist network, ISIS, had established a presence in Nigeria’s most importantcity of Lagos.
“Terrorists today hold the many small settlements that surround Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja; recently, United States soldiers had to intervene to stop terrorists from overrunning the seat of the Nigerian Federal Government in Abuja; all embassies of all countries have seriously scaled down their personnel and services in Abuja; the President of Nigeria himself was recently ambushed on a journey just outside Abuja, resulting in damages to his vehicles and the killing and wounding of some of his officers; and terrorists have raided unopposed, and destroyed, the main maximum security prison in the precincts of Abuja and set all the prisoners free.
“The world and the international community are fully cognizant of the horrendous anarchy that reigns over Nigeria and the cataclysmic Armageddon that is fast approaching in Nigeria “The famous former President of Nigeria, President Obasanjo, has been repeatedly raising the alarm to the world that war has become inevitable, and is imminent, in Nigeria, that the conflagration of war will be ignited by a sudden escalation of Fulani aggression to grab the homelands of the indigenous peoples of Nigeria, and that the war will export enormous destruction and human suffering to all the rest of West Africa.
“It is therefore a matter of desperate emergency for the international community to hurry now to the service of humanity in Nigeria.
“Let it be known to the world that we the peoples of Orileede Yoruba and of Biafra will take whatever steps and measures we find necessary for defending our ancestral homelands, our peoples and our cultural heritages.
“For the sake of absolute certainty, and for the avoidance of doubt, we the peoples of Orileede Yoruba and of Biafra have resolved irrevocably that we do not belong to Nigeria any more, and that none of our citizens will be incinerated in the flaming holocaust that is imminent in Nigeria.
“The everlasting night of uttermost darkness is falling over the country hitherto known as Nigeria, and the human race must hurry to salvage humanity as much as possible from the horror.
“As for us Yoruba and Biafran peoples, we no longer have to fear the holocaust because we are totally ready to ward it away from our borders,” Adeyemo and Ekpa explained.
Over three decades after annulling the acclaimed freest and fairest June 12, 1993, presidential election, former Head of State Ibrahim Babangida has, publicly admitted that the late Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola won the poll.
Babangida’s newly launched 420-page memoir, A Journey in Service: An Autobiography of Ibrahim Babangida, unveiled in Abuja on Thursday, made the disclosure.
The event was attended by prominent figures from across Nigeria and beyond.
In his book, Babangida, widely known as IBB, admitted that his earlier claims suggesting Abiola might not have won were incorrect.
“Upon further reflection and a closer examination of all available facts—particularly the detailed election results published as an appendix to this book—it is clear that MKO Abiola won the June 12 election,” he wrote.
He cited official figures from the 110 polling booths nationwide, showing that Abiola secured 8,128,720 votes against his main challenger Bashir Tofa’s 5,848,247 votes. Abiola also met the constitutional requirement of securing one-third of votes cast in at least 28 states, including Abuja.
In what appears to be contradiction after confirming Abiola’s victory, Babangida maintained that the annulment was done in “extreme national interest.”
“As the leader of the military administration, I accept full responsibility for all decisions taken under my watch. Mistakes, oversights, and missteps happened in quick succession, but I affirm in my book that every decision, including June 12, was made to ensure Nigeria’s survival,” he stated.
The annulment, which remains one of Nigeria’s most controversial political decisions, triggered nationwide protests and unrest. Following the backlash, Babangida resigned in August 1993, handing power to an interim government led by businessman Ernest Shonekan. However, within three months, General Sani Abacha overthrew Shonekan in a palace coup.
Refusing to let his mandate be stolen, Abiola declared himself president in 1994, leading to his arrest by Abacha’s military regime. He remained imprisoned until his death under suspicious circumstances on July 7, 1998, a month after Abacha himself died. His wife, Kudirat Abiola, was also assassinated in 1996.
The return to democracy in 1999, which saw former military ruler Olusegun Obasanjo elected as president, marked the beginning of the Fourth Republic. However, the controversy surrounding June 12 remained a major topic in Nigerian politics.
In 2018, then-President Muhammadu Buhari sought to address the injustice by declaring June 12 as Nigeria’s official Democracy Day, replacing May 29. He also posthumously honored Abiola as a former president.
Reflecting on these events in his memoir, Babangida expressed regret over how the situation unfolded.
“Looking back, the June 12 saga was the most challenging moment of my life and, in some respects, one of the most painful. If I had to do it again, I would do it differently,” he wrote.
Babangida’s book launch was attended by an array of high-profile figures, including former Presidents Goodluck Jonathan, Yakubu Gowon, and Abdulsalami Abubakar, as well as former Vice Presidents Atiku Abubakar and Namadi Sambo.
President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima were also present, alongside billionaire business moguls Aliko Dangote, Abdulsamad Rabiu, and Folorunsho Alakija.
Political tension is at a boiling point in Osun State as violent clashes between supporters of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) over local government control turn deadly.
Amid the unrest, former APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Timi Frank, has sounded the alarm, accusing the APC of orchestrating chaos to justify a federal takeover of the state.
In a strongly worded statement issued on Monday, Frank called on President Bola Tinubu to intervene and rein in Minister of Marine and Blue Economy and former Governor Gboyega Oyetola, whom he accuses of fueling the crisis. According to Frank, Oyetola and his allies are deliberately stoking violence in a bid to make Osun ungovernable for Governor Ademola Adeleke, creating grounds for a state of emergency declaration.
“Their major target is to declare a state of emergency because they know that if elections are held today, Governor Adeleke will still win,” Frank stated. “So they want to abort his second term through crisis and violence.”
The crisis stems from a contentious Court of Appeal ruling, which both the APC and PDP interpret differently regarding the reinstatement of sacked local government chairmen. While Governor Adeleke has insisted that security concerns make their return impossible, Oyetola has vowed to enforce the ruling through legal channels.
The APC National Secretary, Dr. Ajibola Basiru, escalated tensions further by suggesting on live television that the Federal Government should consider declaring a state of emergency in Osun to curb the violence.
Frank, however, sees this as a calculated move to use federal might to undermine Adeleke’s administration.
“We call on the people of Osun to stand with Governor Adeleke and resist this political coup disguised as a crisis,” Frank urged. “This is nothing but an attempt to take Osun by force because APC knows they can’t win the state through the ballot box.”
As uncertainty looms, Osun residents watch closely to see whether the Federal Government will step in to douse the flames or if the crisis will spiral further, threatening the state’s stability.
Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Diaspora and NGOs, Senator Natasha Akpoti Uduaghan, has called for greater gender equity in global security and governance.
She made this strong appeal at the 2025 Munich Security Conference (MSC), where she joined world leaders to discuss the challenges facing women in leadership and peacebuilding.
Speaking on a high-profile panel alongside Kosovo’s President Vjosa Osmani, former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, and EU Commissioner Hadja Lahbib, Akpoti Uduaghan stressed the urgent need for inclusive governance and gender-sensitive security policies.
“The exclusion of women from decision-making isn’t just unfair—it’s a security risk. To build lasting peace, women must not only be at the table but leading the discussions that shape our future.”
A statement from her media office on Sunday in Abuja highlighted the senator’s concerns over the growing global backlash against women’s participation in leadership, warning that this trend threatens long-term stability and development.
Bringing an African perspective to the discussion, Akpoti Uduaghan shed light on the systemic challenges Nigerian women face in politics, ranging from intimidation to exclusion and political violence.
She called for stronger policies to protect women and create an enabling environment for their active participation in governance.
“The backlash against gender inclusivity in politics and security is not just a setback for women; it is a setback for global development.
“The world must move beyond rhetoric and take concrete actions to ensure that women are not just included in peace and security discussions but are given equal opportunities to lead and influence policies.”
The MSC panel, moderated by a senior policy expert, saw a robust exchange of ideas on gender-based discrimination, political violence, and the role of women in conflict resolution.
President Osmani shared insights from Kosovo’s experience in advancing women’s leadership.
Sanna Marin pointed to the Nordic model of gender inclusivity as a global benchmark.
Commissioner Lahbib reaffirmed the EU’s commitment to integrating women in crisis preparedness and security frameworks.
As the conference wrapped up, there was a unanimous agreement that reversing gender regression requires policy reforms, international cooperation, and sustained efforts to empower women in governance and security.
Senator Akpoti Uduaghan’s participation at MSC 2025 reinforces her growing influence as a global advocate for women’s rights, governance reform, and inclusive security policies. Her message was clear: a just, stable, and peaceful world cannot be achieved without women at the forefront of decision-making.
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