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   NEW Yorkers refused to be silenced by terror as residents took to the streets to celebrate the City’s annual Halloween parade.   The fearless city dwellers donned spooky costumes, banged drums and blasted trumpets in a show of defiance to the horror that stalked their streets just hours before when an alleged terrorist killed eight and injured 11 in Lower Manhattan. The attack took place just two miles away, but that did not stop revellers walking down 6th avenue to embrace the parade – which has taken place annually for more than four decades. The alleged perpetrator of the terror attack has been identified as Sayfullo Saipov, an Uzbekistan national who moved to the US in 2010. Following the attack, Mayor Bill de Blasio praised the resilience of his city’s population.   He said: “We know that this action was intended to break our spirit but we also know New Yorkers are strong, New Yorkers are resilient. “And our spirit will never be moved by an act...

   The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has blamed South East governors and President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo for the invasion of Nnamdi Kanu’s compound in Afaraukwu Ibeku Umuahia, Abia State, from September 10 to 14, 2017. The group said denials by Governor OkezieIkpeazu and others will not eradicate the fact that, he, along with others, designed and perfected Operational Python Dance II. A statement by IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary of, Emma Powerful, said Ikpeazu should stop lying about his real motives for imposing the curfew which followed the attack on Kanu’s family home. “Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and his co-conspirators must give true account before the people of Biafra, how they allowed envy and jealousy over Kanu’s popularity to overwhelm them. “Ikpeazu’s claim that he imposed a curfew during the invasion of our leader’s house in Umuahia, to save 11.6 million Igbo in the North is laughable. “The only reason why Ikpeazu deliberately i...

The World Igbo Youth Council, WIYC, on Tuesday called on the people of Abia State not to make the mistake of re-electing Governor Okezie Ikpeazu for a second term in office. It could be re-called that same group had few days ago accused Ikpeazu and Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe of plotting the escape of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. The group went ahead to call for the immediate arrest of Abaribe. This time, in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Mazi Alex Okemiri the WIYC said Gov. Ikpeazu had done nothing to guarantee him a second term in office. They noted that rather than make concrete efforts towards the development of the State, the Governor has been busy aiding and abetting Biafra agitators. According to them, “civil servants in Abia State have never had it so hard since the return to democracy in 1999, and the man at the saddle at this point in history, appears unready to bring to table any attempt to strategy to make the...

  Kenya's opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa) has dismissed the October 26 repeat presidential election. The coalition's leader Raila Odinga, speaking for the first time since President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared winner, termed the election as fraud and vowed not to recognise him and his government. He said that Nasa would instead push for the formation of the People's Assembly to run Kenya until a legitimate government is formed. "Today we establish People's Assembly to restore democracy in the country," Mr Odinga said in Nairobi. "The People's Assembly will have the youth, religious leaders, economic interest groups and the civil society." Nasa, he said, would present petitions for the establishment of the new outfit to govern Kenya to county assemblies for discussion and adoption. "The assembly's timetable to be released soon," he said. In the meantime, Mr Odinga said, Nasa's resistance wing (NRM) would e...

   SPAIN'S High Court has called Catalan President Carles Puigdemont to testify later this week. The disposed leader is currently in Brussels and has consulted with a lawyer there. Earlier today Mr Puigdemont warned EU leaders they are facing the “end of the idea of Europe” if they fail to take action over Spain’s “violent and oppressive” response to its independence referendum. The court called for Mr Puigdemont along with 13 other members of his deposed administration to testify on Thursday at 9am (local time). Spain’s Attorney General Jose Manuel Maza filed a lawsuit against Mr Puigdemont on Monday, citing the crimes of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement and the Catalan President faces up to 30 years in prison. According to Spanish law, rebellion charges may apply to those who “violently and publicly” try to “abrogate, suspend or modify the Constitution, either totally or partially,” or “declare the independence of part of the national territory”. The crime of rebel...

CATALAN leader Carles Puigdemont today warned EU leaders they are facing the “end of the idea of Europe” if they fail to take action over Spain’s “violent and oppressive” response to its independence referendum. The ousted regional president told a packed press conference in Brussels that Madrid had violated “the very basis of the values on which Europe is founded” and that EU inaction would come “at a very high cost”. Mr Puigdemont, who has fled Spain to avoid charges of rebellion which carry a 30 year jail term, said he would not seek asylum in Belgium but also refused to rule out a long stay in Northern Europe. However, he was immediately mocked for taking flight by Spanish MPs and senior European politicians including Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt, who said he had “left Catalonia in chaos and devastation”. At a press conference in central Brussels attended by several hundred journalists, Mr Puigdemont and seven of his senior ministers railed against the actions of t...

Biafra Nations Youth League, BNYL, says grassroots referendum activities will commence Monday next week. BNYL Leader, Princewill Obuka, said the group will converge in Akwa Ibom State, to honour late Biafra Chief of General Staff and Vice President General Philip Effiong. According to Obuka, Igbos and entire ethnic groups of former Eastern region would have been consumed by the civil war “if not that Effiong decided to swallow his ego and agreed with Ojukwu and the rest Easterners”.    Speaking further, the group stated that the Akwa Ibom State Chapter would go for thanksgiving service on Sunday in memory of Effiong legacy, even as he noted that “the declaration that ended the war paved way for today’s non violent movement.” Obuka explained that the BNYL faithful will commence its referendum programs, a gathering he noted would witness the presence of war veterans especially from Akwa Ibom and Cross River State. “It will be an all grassroots engagements, ...

National Judicial Council (NJC) has, Tuesday, appointed a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Suleiman Galadima to replace a former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, as the head of the Corruption and Financial Crime Cases Trial Monitoring Committee (COTRIMCO). Justice Justice Ayo Salami NJC’s director of Information, Mr. Soji Oye, who made the information available to newsme n said Galadima and other members of the committee would be inaugurated at the Supreme Court by 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 1. Justice Ayo Salami, retired president of the court of appeal, had earlier rejected the appointment for personal reasons. Details later,,, Subscribe to our mailing list READ ALSO BIAFRA:see what Ipob plan's to do after 18th November N88bn compensation Nigeria/Biafra war(Beneficialries): Anambra, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Ebonyi, Cross River, Abia, Enugu, Benue World War 3: Kim Jong-un's master strategy RE...