The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has dismissed as a lie and a false alarm the reports on some media platforms claiming that Northerners were being killed in South-East Nigeria. In some of the reports, the Coordinator of the Northern Consensus Forum, Dr Auwal Abdullahi Aliyu and others were quoted to have “directed commodity traders and truck drivers to shun the South-East of Nigeria".