IT was in sober mood as 52 suspected members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) were arraigned, Tuesday, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on a three-count charge of conspiracy and treason. The 52 persons including a pregnant woman have been in prison custody since September 11, 2004. They were alleged to have planned to levy a war against Nigeria by participating in Biafran Freedom football tournament in Lagos. They were arrested from the venue of this championship.
Lagos - Fifty-two suspected members of the Movement for the Actualization of the
Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), among them a pregnant woman, were
yesterday arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on a three-
count charge of conspiracy and treason.
Abuja - CHAIRMAN of National Population Commission (NPC), Alhaji Sama'ila Danko Makama yesterday dispelled fears that state of origin/ethnicity would be excluded in the data form of the forthcoming national census billed for November.
Lagos - Fiftytwo members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign
State of Biafra (MASSOB), were yesterday arraigned before a Federal high
Court Lagos, for alleged treason.
The accused persons, including a pregnant woman, who were brought to
court in the company of heavily armed policemen all pleaded not guilty to
the three-count charge of conspiracy to commit treason, treason and
belonging to an unlawful society. Soon after the charges were read and plea
taken, their Counsel, Mr Anthony Omaghomi, from Festus Keyamo chambers,
moved an application for their bail, pending trial.
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Lagos - The 1999 constitution provides certain basic responsibilities expected of all organs of government authorities and persons saddled with state powers. These minimum responsibilities, which could be described as the essence of the state, are defined in chapter two of the constitution as the fundamental objectives and directive principles of state policy. But how as the Nigerian state fared in this respect?
Port Harcourt - MOVEMENT for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has said it would boycott the forthcoming nationwide census because of the exclusion of ethnicity and religion in the National Population Commission (NPC) data form.
Lagos - LEADER of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of
Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Dr. Ralph Uwazuruike, has urged the Igbo at home and
abroad not to see the actualisation of Biafra as a taboo, insisting that
"Biafra has come to stay."
Onitsha - ABOUT 300 members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign
State of Biafra (MASSOB) are allegedly being illegally detained in various
police cells in the country by security agents while two of their leaders in
Onitsha have been forced to flee the country.
Abakaliki - About 22 members of Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign
State of Biafra (MASSOB), have been arrested by a combined team of the State
Security Service (SSS), and the Police in Izzi Local Government Area of
Ebonyi State.
Lagos - FOR allegedly participating in a Biafran freedom football tournament in Lagos, 53 Igbo youths, alleged to be members of Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) were yesterday arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos on a three count charge of treason.
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