Lawyers representing the leadership of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MOSOP), have failed to get their clients released on bail because the accused did not sign the application, the Supreme Court has ruled.
Port Harcourt - GOVEMENT for Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) activities have threatened to lead boycott of impending national elections to protest perceived injustices against their constituents.
MASSOB would engage in non-violence actions in tackling "injustice and marginalization suffered by people of eastern Nigeria, according to regional administrator in Port Harcourt, Isaac Ofoegbu.
Anambra - The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) have concluded plans to impose a sit-at-home order within their territories as part of respect and rites of passage for the over 200 members of MASSOB allegedly killed by security operatives.
Abuja - Hopes by the leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, Ralph Uwazurike and six others to upturn the verdict of a Federal high court, Abuja, which denied them bail were yesterday dashed as the Supreme Court dismissed their appeal on technical ground.
Lagos - NOBEL Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has called for the immediate release of the leader of the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force, Mujaheed Asari-Dokubo and Ralph Uwazuruike of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) in the interest of justice and equity.
Lagos - Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, yesterday described the Federal Government as lawless and deliberately flouting the elementary principles of due process.
Soyinka made this comment during a press conference addressed by Coalition for the Freedom of Dokubo and Uwazuruike (COFDU), a solidarity group canvassing the release of the leader of Niger Delta Peoples Voluteer Force (NDPVF), Mr. Mujahid Asari-Dokubo and Mr. Ralph Uwazuruike of the Masses for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) at NUJ House, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos.
Onitsha - Govement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB), has threatened to take a stand against the federal government if its leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike was not let off the hook by the next sitting of the court.
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Lagos - For the Nigerian politician, the twin arts of double speak and double standards have become a dangerous pastime, a vocation also shared by most political analysts and social commentators in this clime. Indeed, the weather-beaten political aphorism of "no permanent friend nor permanent enemy in politics, but permanent interest" has now become a toga with which unprincipled politicians and inconsistent activists cloak their hypocrisy. Such display of unabashed disdain for principle, consistency, justice, fairness and truth by people in whose hands God has placed our collective destiny makes some of us to want to give up on this project called Nigeria.
Supporters of the leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), stormed the Federal High Court, Abuja, Tuesday demanding the release of their leader, chief Ralph Uwazu-rike and 11 others standing trial over alleged treason charges.
Abuja - As the Federal High Court, Abuja resumes hearing today on whether to grant bail or not to the leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, many Nigerians have continued to demand for his unconditional release.
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