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Indigenous People of Biafra

Separatist group in Nigeria

"IPOB" redirects here. For the human gene importin subunit beta-1, see KPNB1.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is a separatist group in Nigeria that aims to restore the defunct Republic of Biafra, a country which seceded from Nigeria in 1967 prior to the Nigerian Civil War and was subsequently dissolved following its defeat in 1970.[4] Since 2021, IPOB and other Biafran separatist groups have been fighting a low-level guerilla conflict in southeastern Nigeria against the Nigerian government. The group was founded in 2012[5] by Nnamdi Kanu who has been the leader[6] and Uche Mefor, who served as the deputy leader.[7]

Kanu is known as a British political activist known for his advocacy of the contemporary Biafran independence movement.[8] It was declared a terrorist organization by the Nigerian government in 2017 under the Nigerian Terrorism Act, the declaration was nullified by a High Court sitting in Enugu in 2023.[9] But an Abuja Division of the Court

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Ralph Uwazuruike

Born Okigwe, Imo State, Nigeria

Occupation Lawyer

Known for Activism

He holds degrees in Political Science from Punjab University, India , and Law from Bombay University, India. Uwazuruike adopts the principle of non-violence as propagated by Mahatma Gandhi and

Martin Luther King, Jr , as the philosophy of the struggle. He has been detained several times and charged with treason in Nigerian courts. On the 28th of April 2010, he was visited in prison by Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu and his wife,

Bianca.

Following Ojukwu's death in 2011, Uwazuruike was named his successor and crowned 'Ezeigbo'.

He has since embarked on several regional projects including the erection of a library in honour of Ojukwu and building residential houses for displaced Biafran War veterans, etc.

Uwazuruike was the leader of Ndigbo in Lagos in 1993, when Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola crisis started due to the annulment of the Nigeria presidential election that Abiola was believed to be the winner. The annulment that sparked civil and political unrest a

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Ralph Uwazuruike

Nigerian activist

Ralph Uwazuruike is a Nigerian activist. He is the leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB); a group canvassing for the secession and sovereignty of Eastern Nigeria.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] He holds degrees in Political Science from Punjab University, India, and Law from Bombay University, India. Uwazuruike adopts the principle of nonviolence as propagated by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., as the philosophy of the struggle. He has been detained several times and charged with treason in Nigerian courts. On 28 April 2010, he was visited in prison by Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu and his wife, Bianca.[9]

Following Ojukwu's death in 2011, Uwazuruike was named his successor and crowned 'Ezeigbo'.[10] He has since embarked on several regional projects including the erection of a library in honour of Ojukwu and building residential houses for displaced Biafran War veterans.

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