06/23/2004
interview Lagos - Col. Joe Achuzia, the Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo does not pull his punches in interviews. In this encounter with Correspondent NKIRU OKEKE, he is characteristically blunt on issues concerning the Igbo question, including the killing of Ndigbo in the North and the quest for a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction. Excerpts:06/19/2004
Abuja - SIXTY-two persons who were alleged to be members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) Thursday dragged the Director-General of State Security Services and the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to court asking that their detention be declared illegal.06/18/2004
Abuja - Some alleged members of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) arrested by the police yesterday instituted an action against the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Tafa Balogun, alleging abuse of their fundamental human rights.06/09/2004
Kaduna, Kaduna - Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has re-affirmed its commitment to the realisation of its objective through non-violence means. In a press statement in Kaduna by MASSOB Deputy Director of Mobilisation, Prince Oliver Chidozie, the group decried what it described as Federal Government's intimidation and harassment of its members.06/08/2004
Awka - Movement for Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has condemned the arrest and detention of its members across the nation by men and officers of the Nigerian Police force as illegal, saying the Police should either release the detainees or charge them to court.06/07/2004
Owerri and Onitsha - Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has said that contrary to the police claim, it is not violent in its modus operandi, even as it called for the release of its members arrested last Wednesday in Ebonyi State.06/03/2004
Abakaliki - Director of State Security Service (SSS), Ebonyi State, Alhaji Ibrahim Mashi has flayed the activities of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), saying that it constitutes serious threat to the security of the nation.06/03/2004
Lagos - No fewer than 38 suspected members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) were yesterday arrested by the police for constituting security threat to the peace of the nation. Arms and ammunition, military and other security agencies equipment were also recovered from the suspects. Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), MR. Chris Olakpe, revealed made this issued said the suspects were arrested in Ebonyi and Anambra States while plotting to go out on an operation.06/03/2004
Abuja - IN what looked like renewed crackdown, the police yesterday said they had arrested 38 Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) activists. In a statement signed by Force spokesman, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Chris Olakpe, the police said the suspects were arrested in Ebonyi and Anambra states.06/02/2004
Abakaliki - Director of State Security Services (SSS) in Ebonyi State, Alhaji Ibrahim Mashi, has condemned the activities of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), describing them as posing a threat to the nation's security.
