Freedom voice of Imo state

23/04/2024

Cult clash as a young man gun down at Okwu Urrata Owerri North.....

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30/03/2024

JUST IN: Nigerian Traditional Worshippers say they want their own public holiday on August 20 like other religions have theirs.

30/03/2024

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26/03/2024

Nollywood stigmatised this hat, turned it into a symbol of drunk people, poverty and Unexposed Villagers.

But it took an Igbo musician from Delta state to remove the stigma and bring it back to contemporary trend.

Thank you

17/03/2024

Just In: Youths k+ll Nigerian Army Commander, Two Majors, Captain, 12 Soldiers in Delta state

22/02/2024

“I Started The Civil War And I Succeeded.”

– Yakubu Gowon, February 22, 2024

22/02/2024

Stanley Enekwe was executed in April 1972 by Yakubu Gowon. Ex-Biafra soldiers were targeted after the war. He was accused of stealing Gowon's official car from the war, but he never did. Stanley's father was seen whipping off sweat from his son's face before he was shot dead. Igbos has really suffered because of this Rubbish Ideology of One Nigeria 😢

20/02/2024

Guinean Military Junta Dissolves Government, Seals Country’s Borders
Ministers have had their bank accounts frozen and asked to turn in their passports and official cars.
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Ministers have had their bank accounts frozen and asked to turn in their passports and official cars.

19/02/2024

19/02/2024

Nigerian Breweries unveils the latest rates for beers

1. GULDER – N950

2. STAR – N850

3. 33 EXTRA – N850

4. HEINEKEN – N1300

5. LIFE – N850

6. LEGEND – N1250

7. TIGER – N750

19/02/2024

BREAKING: The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) is currently exploring the possibility of further price increases for prepaid meters.

“The cost of prepaid meters is going to go up soon. Meter Asset Providers have stop selling new meters as they await NERC to approve new prices.

“New meter applications are not being processed until the price changes are reflected.

So due to FX issues, the meter manufacturers have stopped sending invoices until the meter price is reviewed.” A source told Nairametrics

12/02/2024

Releasing Nnamdi Kanu Is In Nigeria’s Interest, Afenifere, Ohanaeze, PANDEF, Others Tell Tinubu, Warn Against Ethnic Militia Set Up By Herders’ Union | Sahara Reporters

The Leaders of the Southern and Middle Belt Forum (SMBLF) have condemned the continued incarceration of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on treason charges by the Nigerian Government. SMBLF which stated this in a communique issued recently at the end of its meeting....

11/02/2024

Biafra: Uwazuruike predicts more hardships in Nigeria
Nigeria will be breaking up
into 6 independent countries, he insists

Recognizes Bishop Ashiegbu as Archbishop of Biafra

OWERRI: LEADER of Unrepresented Nations and People's Organizations, UNPO- member- state, Ralph Uwazuruike, on Saturday, predicted there would be more hardships for the Nigerian people.

He also insisted that Nigeria must be splited into 6 republics according to the existing six geo-political zones of the country.

He made his predictions known during the group's monthly meeting yesterday at the prestigious Ojukwu memorial library, auditorium, New Owerri, the Imo state capital.

At a time Nigeria is faced with security challenges and economic hardship plaguing the Nation, Chief Ralph Uwazurike who holds the highest traditional Igbo title of Ijele Ndigbo also berated religious clerics in Nigeria, accusing them of hob- nobing with governors and politicians .

According to him,' there are no men of God in Nigeria and Southeast in particular."
"They are not genuine, they are business men and politicians who are errand boys to the governors and politicians just for a mere peanut", he said.

A press statement issued to newsmen on Sunday, in Owerri, and signed by the National Director of information/ Senior Special Assistant to BIM-MASSOB on Media and Publicity, Mazi Chris Mocha, Uwazuruike also approved and recognized Bishop Gregory Ashiegbu as the Archbishop of Biafra.

Uwazuruike who lambasted pastors, reverend fathers and Bishops, has directed the members of Movement for Actualization of Sovereign state of Biafra, MASSOB, and Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, not to allow any different hand to touch his body if he dies except the newly ordained Biafran Archbishop, Gregory Ashiegbu.

According to him, "Do not take me to any church because I don't belong to any of them, don't also allow any pastor, reverend father, bishop or archbishop to touch my body because they are politicians and business men and their hands are dirty,' Uwazuruike bombed the acclaimed men of God.

He continued,' If I die, It is only my ordained Archbishop of Biafra land, Bishop Gregory Ashiegbu will take care of my body',he maintained.

Uwazuruike, who is the founder of Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) predicted the fall of the Africa's most populous black Nation, Nigeria, insisting it must divide into six different countries according to the existing geo-political zones, and each country allowed to develop at its own pace.

In the face of prevailing economic hardship plaguing the country, Uwazuruike further predicted that major hardship is coming to the people of Nigeria and there is no responsible government in place to remedy the situation.

He added that, "God had already placed His curses and hardship upon hardships on the country itself until Nigeria says, 'let Biafra go,' and there will be peace.

09/02/2024

Happy birthday Emmanuel Nnadi. May your daysis be enlongertutu like that of matuseller onto God baba eledumare. I wish you all the best of life my comrade..

06/02/2024

EFCC arrests pastor Ebonyi for defr@uding his church members, others a whopping N1.3billion

The General Overseer of Faith On The Rock Ministry International, Apostle Theophilus Oloche Ebonyi, has been arrested for defr@uding his church members and other Nigerians to the tune of N1. 3 billion.

05/02/2024

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    The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has banned alcoholic beverages produced in sachets less than 200ml.The agency said the five-year window given to the manufacturers of the products to stop producing the drinks in sachets and pet bottles which began in 20...

03/02/2024

Enugu Rerun: Voters Beat INEC Staff To Pulp For Coming With Pre-Filled Result Sheets | Sahara Reporters bit.ly/4brn1ET

02/02/2024

BREAKING: The Central Bank of Nigeria has banned banks and fintechs from offering international money transfer services, introducing stricter guidelines, including a significant increase in the application fee for International Money Transfer Operator (IMTO) licenses from N500,000 to N10 million.

The CBN aims to fortify the currency, stabilize the forex market, and ensure economic stability, but potential impacts on remittance payments into the country are anticipated.

31/01/2024

*IMO POLICE COMMAND PRESS RELEASE OF MONDAY, 29th JANUARY, 2024*

*POLICE BURST KIDNAPPER'S HIDEOUT IN AVU-IHIAGWA FOREST, ARREST FIVE SUSPECTS*

Acting on credible intelligence, operatives of the Imo State Police Command Special Tactical Unit led by the Commissioner of Police, CP Aboki Danjuma in synergy with some local hunters stormed a suspected kidnapper’s hideout in a forest between Avu and Ihiagwa, on 29/01/2024 and arrested of 5 suspected kidnappers namely; Muazu Awuta, 30 ‘m’ yrs, Abdullahi Abubakar, ‘m’ 32yrs, Ozeru Sabo ‘m’ 25yrs, Saddam Suleiman, ‘m’ 27yrs, Bashir Yahaya, ‘m’, 28yrs all of Jau LGA of Jigawa State. The suspects are currently undergoing investigation and have provided useful information to the Police that will lead to the arrest of other syndicates at large.

On combing the forest, two decomposing unidentified corpses suspected to be kidnapped victims and other items like telephones, wristwatches, shoes, and slippers were recovered. The command intends to carry out further DNA confirmatory test to ascertain the identity of the deceased. Five operational motorcycles of the suspected kidnappers were also recovered.

Intense operation is still ongoing in the forest and other identified black spots with the aim of stamping out all forms of crime and criminality in the State.

*ASP OKOYE HENRY, anipr*
POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
FOR: COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
IMO STATE COMMAND

29/01/2024

Gunmen Kill Four Persons In Imo State Including Policemen, Launch Attack On POS Operators
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The incident, SaharaReporters gathered, happened at Ohii junction located on the Owerri – Orlu Road.
No fewer than four people were killed by gunmen on Monday even as they attacked Point of Sale (POS) operators in Imo State, South East Nigeria.

The incident, SaharaReporters gathered, happened at Ohii junction located on the Owerri – Orlu Road.

According to eyewitnesses, two of the victims were said to be policemen who were on duty in the area during the unfortunate attack.

A video of the incident seen by SaharaReporters on Monday evening showed the lifeless bodies of the victims.

A Facebook user, Anyaeri Bright who shared a video clip of the incident confirmed that two policemen and two civilians allegedly lost their lives in the attack.

SaharaReporters, however, gathered that the fleeing gunmen opened fire at the junction which claimed the lives of the victims.

As of the time of filing this report, the reason for the attack had yet to be ascertained.

This is even as some Point of Sales operators where attacked and monies dispossessed in parts of Owerri on Monday.

Another eyewitness, who simply gave his name as Iheanacho said "earlier today, around 9am, some armed men in a Corolla vehicle attacked some POS shops and passersby just before Rapour junction, dispossessing them of cash and valuables.”

Another resident, Ikechukwu Eze disclosed thar some POS operators were robbed at Amawire – Orji on the Owerri – Okigwe Road.

Iheanacho also disclosed that around 8 am on Monday, some criminals stormed Christiana junction at Egbu Road and robbed POS operators.

When the spokesperson for the police in the state, Henry Okoye, was contacted on the incident, he said he had yet to be informed.

He promised to make inquiries and get back to SaharaReporters but had yet to do so as of the time of filing this

29/01/2024

LAND DISPUTE:
MASSOB Leader Vacates House For Archbishop Ugorji
Asks Lead Counsel To Withdraw Case
In The Appeal Court
8 MASSOB Members With Bullet Injuries Arrested, Detained In Owerri

IJELE NDIGBO, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, yesterday, said he had vacated his building which was a subject of dispute between him and the Owerri Catholic Archdiocesan Bishop, Lucious Iwejuru Ugorji.

Before vacating the one plot of land where he built his house since 2012 to Archbishop Ugorji, Uwazuruike lamented that since the matter was still in Court that due process ought to have been followed by allowing the Court of Appeal to decide the case.

"From the bottom of my heart and for peace to prevail in Southeast and Imo State in particular, take the land, you have won me,' Uwazuruike said in a Statement made available to Newsmen on Monday and Signed by his Director
of information/Senior Special Assistant to BIM-MASSOB on Media and Publicity, Mazi Chris Mocha.

Uwazuruke alleged the Imo State Governor, Sen. Hope Uzodinma sent his armed policemen numbering about 100 to his demolished house, shooting sporadically and injured six (6), arrested eight ( 😎 of his security men with bullet wounds but was happy that no one died in the process.
The eight arrested members are currently being detained at undisclosed police station in Owerri, the State capital.

The MASSOB leader who has ruled out any form of compensation to him or to his agent or any member of his organization acting on his behalf, said there are about eight (8) empty plots of land around his own but the Governor decided to take his own to compensate Archbishop Lucious Iwejuru Ugorji.

Archbishop Ugorji recently told Journalists alleging that the said piece of land belonged to Sisters many years ago before the MASSOB leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike forcefully built his house on it.

For the interest of peace in Igboland, Uwazuruike had asked his lead Counsel to withdraw the case in the Court of Appeal, just as he also directed his security men to vacate the land immediately, adding, 'his property is not worth of wasting of the blood of anyone.'

Uwazuruike said he formed MASSOB
to achieve a State of Biafra through peaceful means, and in addition to this,
to protect lives and property of Ndigbo wherever one reside which has brought about the relative peace Ndigbo are enjoying today in Igboland.

He said he had made several sacrifices including donating his entire age, political career and legal service as a lawyer fighting for the cause of Ndigbo but frowned that Ndigbo have never appreciated all his efforts.

25/01/2024

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23/01/2024

Governor Soludo: Remember Diochi, the village palm wine tapper, who is always reminded that he must not tell his fellow villagers everything he sees while on top of the palm tree. There is wisdom there because Diochi knows everything, from seeing women taking showers in the village stream to those having babies on the roads to farms (Uzoji).

On Nkwo, Eke, Orie and Afo days, as elders gather, Diochi is reminded to keep mute while they enjoy his free wine. Diochi is powerful, but he is also the only person in the village who prepays for the services of his kinsmen. Yes, because it is expected that one day, he will likely fall at work, he is expected to bring wine on specific market days, as a compensation to his kinsmen, who will likely burn work days looking for him in the farmlands. In Ovim, Diochi serves free wine on Nkwo day; other communities in the Igbo Nation have different days.

Why this message? Do not fight traditional rulers because of those they have decided to give traditional titles to. Like Diochi, it is not every power you have that you must use. Men respect Diochi because they know he knows everything but decides to keep mute. We also hope that in your unbounded power as a governor, the ancestral wisdom of Diochi will become evident.

Allow those traditional rulers to breathe; focus on why the Anambra people sang on the day you won election, “Soludo ga achi anyi” [Soludo will be our leader] tekedia.com/chukwuma-solud…
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Soludo ga achi anyi [Soludo will lead us]. Yet, if there is another party [Non Voted Peoples Party, NVPP], any candidate representing it would have won. According to INEC which has called the election, Chukwuma Soludo (APGA), the winner of the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State, polle...

17/01/2024

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15/01/2024

Good day Brothers

Semper Fidelis

This is a gentle reminder that you can go ahead and pay your dues for this year 2024.

The monthly dues still remain 500 per month. You can pay for as many months as you can afford

The only other due for this year is the wedding support for Johnpaul Okolie which is 1k.

Kindly pay now that it's very low.

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Fidelity Bank

Send screenshot of payment to the Financial Secretary @⁨~paZuby⁩ for proper documentation.

God bless us all
God bless CICOBA'12

12/01/2024

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09/01/2024

Biafra: BIM, MASSOB Disagree With Ohaneze Ndigbo On Former President Obasanjo 's Appointment Of Igbo Sons In His Cabinet

Says Appointment Of Igbo Son As Minister For Works 53 Years After The Civil War Won't Pacify Agitation, Group Insists

The leadership of MASSOB has sharply disagreed with Ohaneze Ndigbo for positing that the former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo allegedly appointed some Igbo sons into some sensitive positions during his tenure as President.

While it has lauded the efforts of the Apex Igbo Socio-Cultural group towards ensuring the freedom of the detained IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, MASSOB however disagreed with the Igbo group in principles, stressing that the current agitation for Biafra was started during Obasanjo's regime.

It equally appreciated the efforts of the MASSOB leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike and some political leaders in the Southeast for working tirelessly to ensuring the release of the detained IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, but urged them to do more to effect his immediate release .

In a statement, on Tuesday, BIM, MASSOB recalled that for about 30 years after the civil war, the Igbo Nation had suffered internal colonialism, exploitation, apartheid , indignity, exclusion and marginalization in silence, hoping and praying to God that a Moses would emerge one day to tell Nigerian pharaohs " let my people go".

It also observed that several years after the Biafran - Nigerian civil war, the Igbo man was subjected to a similar situation that brought out the non -violent genius of Mahatma Gandhi, hence the formation of MASSOB by Chief Ralph Uwazuruike.

A good historian knows that in an oppressed society like the precarious situation Ndigbo still find herself in Nigeria, that such a Moses of our time like Uwazuruike would always emerge.

For the purpose of keeping the record straight, the BIM, MASSOB leadership added that, 'from 1970 till September 13,1999, the Igbo had suffered the exploitation which led the American leaders to challenge the then 'Almighty ' British colonial power in the battle field".

The statement said when Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo (Rted) became President, he acted out the familiar script of his predecessors when he took what belonged to the Igbos and used it to pacify the Hausa- Fulani in gratitude for conceding power to him as it had been the practise of the Hausa-Fulani who used what belonged to Igbos since January 12, 1970 and compensated the Yorubas for winning the war for them.

Mazi Chris Mocha who is Director of Information/Senior Special Assistant to BIM and MASSOB lamented that even after Ndigbo gave Obasanjo the highest number of votes in the 1999 Presidential election to win his rival as against his kinsmen from the Southwest, no Igbo son or daughter was considered fit for appointment among his service chiefs.

BIM-MASSOB alleged that as part of the unwritten policy of Victor and Vanguished instituted against the Igbos after the war, the former President and his predecessors had always reserved the best parts of appointments for themselves including Petroleum and took those that should come to the Igbos to pacify the Yorubas of the South west.

While BIM- MASSOB lauded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu when he appointed an Igbo illustrious son, Senator.(Engr.) Dave Umahi as the Minister for works 53 years after the war, the appointment it said will not pacify its genuine demand for the creation of a State of Biafra through a non- violent process.

Like the Versailles victors, every 15th January was marked off in the Nigeria calendar as a day Nigerian soldiers celebrated their military prowess in killing millions of their supposedly Igbo countrymen, women and children in a war that was tagged civil.

It has noted that the Igbos have continued to suffer the apartheid humiliation like South Africa that sent
Dr. Nelson Mandela to jail for 27 years.

04/01/2024

PRESS RELEASE

No Increase in PMS Prices, NNPC Ltd. Assures Nigerians

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd. assures the public that there is no imminent increase in the cost of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol.

NNPC Ltd. urges Nigerians to disregard unfounded rumours and assures them that there are no plans for an upward review of the PMS price.

Motorists nationwide are advised against engaging in panic buying, as there is presently ample availability of PMS across the country.

Olufemi O. Soneye
Chief Corporate Communications Officer
NNPC Ltd.
Abuja

03 January 2024

31/12/2023

Psalm 126:1-3
When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
2Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: *then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.*
3The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.

As you embark on the journey of 2024 , Nations shall testify about the goodness of God over your life and family,

Remain Bless and enjoy the Blessings of the Lord

_Happy new day ,
Happy new month and Happy New your._

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❣️.