INTIMIDATION OF NEWSPAPER VENDORS, JOURNALISTS BY NIGERIA SECURITY OPERATIVES IN IMO STATE, BARBARIC - IPOB

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May 18, 2021| The Biafra Times

We the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), ably led by our prophet and liberator, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, condemn in very strong terms, the incessant arrest and humiliation of newspaper vendors as well as the harassment of journalists by the Nigeria security operatives for writing or distributing Biafra, IPOB or ESN-related news materials. This is wickedness and a calculated attempt to suppress the press.

It's a global embarrassment that the Nigeria security agents will be hunting for newspaper vendors and journalists in Imo State and other Biafran cities for committing no crime other than writing or distributing news contents that affect Biafra, IPOB or ESN. How many times have the security agents harrased any journalist or newspaper vendor in the North for writing about Boko Haram or Fulani bandits? 

The same hypocritical Nigeria security agents allow viral videos and audios from Boko Haram and other terrorists to circulate in the media but when IPOB Spokesman was featured on Channels Television, the federal government came on with N5 million fine against the station. Islamic cleric Sheikh Gunmi keeps meeting with terrorists and has turned into advocacy for them through the media, yet journalist or newspaper vendor has been questioned over such reports.

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The Fulani-controlled Nigeria security agencies cannot suppress Biafra no matter how hard they try. Not even their draconian policies and ant-press moves can stop their atrocities and unprovoked genocidal attacks in Biafra land from being reported. The world must read our story!

We therefore, challenge the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Nigeria Guild of Editors, Newspaper Publishers , civil society groups and democracy lovers to take up the fight. It's not about Biafra, it's all about free press and democracy. After all, the victims are not IPOB members but ordinary newspaper vendors and innocent journalists.

The ultimate goal of the Fulani controlled federal government of Nigeria is to intimidate journalists into submission so they will be too afraid to report the extra-judicial killings and other crimes against humanity perpetrated by the security agents against Biafrans. We know their game plan: this is only a prelude so that when eventually they begin their proposed jihad in the Eastern region, no journalists and newspaper vendor will be courageous enough to report or circulate the story.

But they must not be allowed to succeed or get away with this tyranny. The UN, US, EU, UK and lovers of democracy all over the world should ask Nigeria Government why it's clamping down on free press.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB

The Death of Journalism in Nigeria

By Nelson Ofokar Yagazie | For Biafra Writers

December 5, 2018


The doom of African societies is not the thoughtless politicians who siphon the people's fund and mess up the polity; is not the sleeping judiciary who seem to have forgotten their job; is not the nervous law enforcement agents who are scared stiff of losing their job; is not the impoverished masses who struggle and jostle for the falloffs from the bourgeoisie’s table; the doom of African societies is the compromised stomach-driven brown-envelope journalists who, although should be the watchdog of the society, have turned selves into scavenging pigs.

That journalism in Nigeria has died a natural death cannot be disputed. The debate, however, is its time of demise. While some people – the likes of Nnamdi Kanu – hold that journalism in Nigeria died with Dele Giwa, others argue that it lived a few years behind Dele Giwa, bowing out with the return of the charade we mistake for democracy in 1999 when avarice finally supplanted honour. In all, even amongst the drummers of the evil beat, Nigerian media is perceived not just as dead but buried and putrefied.

The Sudanese fellow impersonating late President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock, earlier in the year called Nigerian youths lazy. At the time of the statement, many were disenchanted. I was, too, for the present day crop of youths populating the enclave referred to as Nigeria are, arguably, among the most hardworking set of people to have occupied mother earth. Reflecting on a number of issues, however, it soon dawned on me that the impostor wasn’t actually referring to physical laziness as many reasoned; he was, in reality, referring to mental laziness – the collective mental ineptitude of Nigerian youths.

This mental laziness, if it had restrained self to the commoner, would have been less injurious to the societal fabric, but like a wildfire, it caught across all walks of life.

The press is generally reputed as the societal watchdog. It is the voice of the voiceless, the defender of the helpless, and the menace of corrupt and incompetent leaders. A dysfunctional press is, therefore, a dysfunctional society. Riding on the above premises, an observant eye sheds tears when men of the press become mentally inept. To add moral bankruptcy to that deficiency could persuade one to take the suicide option. Mournfully, both ills have bedeviled the Nigerian press. A Nigerian journalist who is not mentally clogged is morally thin. In some individuals even, the two vices assert selves. Am I unfairly taunting men of the press? Read on.

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The presidency through Femi Adesina scammed the entirety of Nigerian population, and the media turns a blind eye. First, Adesina – the special adviser on media and publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari – announced on November 9, 2018, that the president is visiting Paris, France, to participate in the first edition of the Paris Peace Forum after which the president will join other world leaders to commemorate the centenary anniversary of the Armistice signed on Nov. 11, 1918 between the Allied Forces and Germany in the forest of Compiegne in France to end the First World War.

Later, on November 11, Adesina released fake pictures of Buhari(Jubril) in the midst of other world leaders with the caption, “Buhari, Macron, Putin, Trump mark the end of World War 1.” This was done to create the impression that Buhari was actually present in the centenary event in Paris. To make the lies more colourful, Adesina released photo-shopped pictures of Buhari(Jubril) addressing world leaders at the centenary. The Nigerian media, notably Vanguard, Punch Newspapers, Channels Television and the likes, made selves willing tools in the propagation of these monumental lies.

With Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB intelligence at work, evidences soon began to troop in that Buhari(Jubril) was not present at the world event as the presidency made the citizens to believe. First, the official list of the attendees was released, and neither the name “Buhari” nor “Nigeria” appeared. Second, the video footage of French president, Manuel Macron, welcoming dignitaries to the event was also released, and again, Buhari (Jubril) was nowhere to be found. Not even someone of close resemblance was sighted.

The supposed pictures of Buhari(Jubril) addressing the world released by Adesina and circulated by the loathsome  Nigerian media turned out to be pictures of him taken in an earlier event in Paris in February 2018. The cabals were smart by half, as the difference was clear – the podium Buhari(Jubril) supposedly made speech on in the centenary was glaringly different from the podium Macron, Angel Merkel, Theresa May and the rest of world leaders spoke on. Secondly, the pinup on Buhari(Jubril) differed from the pinup on other leaders present. In a country of functional journalism, the press would have asked, “how come Buhari’s own things differed from the rest?” The podium and pinup used by Buhari were uncovered by IPOB intelligence to be the ones used in the earlier event in February 2018.

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Obviously, the handlers of Buhari(Jubril) are lying, and as it is always said, people lie for a reason. A critical question then surfaces: Why is the presidency fooling the whole country? What are the cabals hiding?

In a civilized world the media would have asked Adesina why he lied to the citizens about the president’s whereabouts; why would he have to scam 180 million people with fake photographs of the president; why would he have to make Nigeria a joke before the world as the claims of him presenting a speech in an event they know he never attended spoke volumes of Nigeria’s irksomeness. But rather than asking probing questions, the Nigerian media chose to look the other way. Did I say look the other way? Hell, no! They chose to help propagate falsehood – a hallmark of a deplorable and irredeemable society.

With Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB intelligence warming up the atmosphere with more evidences against the cabal’s claims, the presidency quickly churned out another lie, telling the gullible citizens that Buhari addressed Nigerians in Paris. This falsehood too was laid bare by IPOB and its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, with pictorial evidences. Adesina and his crew were challenged to release a video clip of the live address. They are yet to come up with any.

Among other deceits in the Nigerian enclave today, the importation of Jubril Aminu Al-Sudani – the impostor in Aso Rock – stands tall. The cyberspace is awash with evidences of a double occupying Aso Rock, yet no Nigerian media outfit has thought it necessary to engage self in investigative journalism. Buhari, evidences prove, died on 27th January, 2017, was buried in Saudi Arabia and is now being impersonated by a Sudanese double, Jubril Aminu Al Sudani. Is it even difficult to investigate? Start with the ear, move down to the fingers, then consider the height, and then the eyeballs. Run a check on the flightlog of the presidential jet that flew him to London, and then his corpse to Saudi Arabia for burial. Analyze the Google evidence of African Union observing a minute silence in honour of the deceased Nigerian president, Buhari; Queen Elizabeth’s condolence letter to Nigerian government; Eric Joyce’s tweets, and the likes. And then the threats from some sitting APC governors like Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state.

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In the wake of the current crisis gulping APC, governor Rochas Okorocha threatened, “if I say what I know about APC Nigerians will burn down ASo Rock within 24 hours.” His Ogun state counterpart, governor Amosun followed up with “If APC provokes me again I will tell the whole world what we were cooking that got the house burnt.” If journalism isn’t dead in Nigeria, someone would have sat the governors down in front of a screen and asked what is it you know that if revealed would make Nigeria boil.

The bunkum about rats chasing the president out of office is yet another poorly packaged deception. If I were a journalist, on getting such ridiculous yarn I would have asked myself, “how possible is that? From which source could rats infiltrate the most essential office in the country?  But the media ran away with the story. Conveniently so. Journalism in Nigeria is dead and buried. The stomach-driven folks pretending to be journalists these days are too lazy, too fearful and too deep in corruption to question odds and expose jiggery-pokery, even when they glare at them. The rat yarn was, in reality, advanced to buy time for the locks in Aso Rock which were coded with late President Buhari’s fingerprints to be recoded with Jubril’s.

 One could go on and on and on. Journalism in Nigeria stinks, and journalism is supposed to be a country’s livewire. Little wonder Nigeria is on a free-fall. As I asserted in the opening paragraph, the doom of African societies is not the thoughtless politicians who siphon the people's fund and mess up the polity; is not the sleeping judiciary who seem to have forgotten their job; is not the nervous law enforcement agents who are scared stiff of losing their job; is not the impoverished masses who struggle and jostle for the falloffs from the bourgeoisie’ table; the doom of African societies is the compromised stomach-driven brown-envelope journalists who, although should be the watchdog of the society, have turned selves into scavenging pigs. My heart bleeds!

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Nigerian journalists, more deadly than terrorists – Reason they should be proscribed by the people

By Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu | For Biafra Writers

October 31, 2018

The terrorist groups in Nigeria have taken more innocent lives of citizens than the figures been reported by the Nigerian journalists. When ten (10) is stated in the ratio of one (1) and twenty (20) in the ratio of two (2), you begin to see the masses living in delusion and not knowing the actual danger ahead of them.

Just recently, after Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra made it clear through a radio broadcast that he never jumped bail as he was preparing for the court before the brutal and unannounced military invasion at his home, the Vanguard Newspaper came up with a headline “Why I Jumped Bail – Nnamdi Kanu” to confuse their readers.

In a cultured society, journalists represent the lamplight of the people. In dealing with their adversities, journalists become a guiding light of direction and strength. In Nigeria, no journalist had taken up the responsibility of digging deep into the profile of any corrupt politician. Instead, they go on board concocting all manner of good news in favour of these corrupt leaders in order to please them and on the line, see if the particular politician can grease their hands.

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True journalism is an investigative art of thorough research into some oblique situations, coming out with a spellbound report and proffering a possible solution to an extent. This will help provide a limelight that the people will need to confront the evil bedeviling them. Instead, the Nigerian journalists are busy attacking the poor and pitiful masses.

These journalists shield the corrupt practices of politicians with their pen. Their pen is more terrorizing than the terrorists in Nigeria. These journalists intentionally abuse English words while embarking on their odyssey of propagating fallacies and defending corrupt practices in an armchair kind of journalism.

“Perceived, allegedly, clashed,” are some of the words they intentionally use in a very wrong context. When a real situation is referred to as perceived (unreal) and allegedly (unsure), you begin to understand the level of misconception they feed the people with. The word “clash” shouldn’t be used to describe a situation where the soldiers are shooting unarmed peaceful protesters. “Clash” can be used when there is a retaliatory approach from the protesters or when they violently engage with the security forces or operatives.

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Some of them have turned out to be campaign managers of political parties – they are funded to castigate political opponents. This evil is orthodox with these Nigerian media outlets like; The Nation Newspaper, Sun Newspaper, Vanguard, The Punch, Daily Post, Sahara Reporters, Channels TV, Nigerian Television Authority, Radio Nigeria, Voice of Nigeria, Guardian, Daily Trust, This Day, Nigerian Tribune and so on.

When journalism is politicized, my candid suggestion for the people is to embrace another credible source for their daily supply of accurate new and/or information. Radio Biafra London and its associate media houses is there to help.


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