The regime said those peacefully agitating for a separate country were criminals and must be treated like bandits and terrorists.
Mr Buhari alleged that investigations have revealed financiers of secessionist agitations including a serving National Assembly member.
A counsel to Mr Kanu says CCTV recordings and other evidence have shown that the Buhari regime kidnapped him from Nairobi, Kenya.
Amnesty said the scores of disappearance cases that remain unresolved, cast doubt on Mr Buhari’s election promise to keep Nigerians safe.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has told President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime and other governments to stop enforced disappearances.
Umahi has threatened banks, traders, and other corporate organisations that the state government will forfeit their businesses if they obey IPOB’s sit-at-home order.
The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra is seeking an independent nation for Igbos, especially in the South-East and parts of Nigeria’s South-South region.
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria in Anambra has called on President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime to engage agitators in the country in a peaceful dialogue.
The police say it will “vehemently resist” any pro-Biafran groups that prevent residents from going about their daily activities amid the stay-at-home order.
The former U.S. envoy blames Mr Buhari’s harsh security tactics as one of the many factors triggering the fresh call for a Biafra nation.
