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John Alechenu, Abuja
Published 5 June 2021
A group of women under the aegis of the Amalgamation of Northern Women Associations, on Saturday, demanded a referendum to allow Biafran agitators to chose whether or not to remain in Nigeria.
The coordinator of the group, Hadiza Adamu, spoke on behalf of other members, during a protest in Abuja, on Saturday.
She said, “Nigerian History has shown that women carry the heavy burden of war and acts of insurrections and terrorism. We have gone through it from 1967 to 1971, our men died and left us with the children to cater for out of nothing, other men that survived simply moved on but we never moved on.
Allow Southeast its independent republic, Northern Women tell Buhari
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By Omeiza Ajayi
A coalition of Southwest groups under the aegis of the Yoruba Appraisal Forum YAF has called on the Federal and state governments, the National Assembly as well as security agencies in the country to take urgent steps to stop alleged plans by some elements to launch series of attacks on security personnel in the South-West states.
The Forum alleged that it had uncovered plans by some so-called freedom fighters and secessionist agitators in the South-West “making efforts to replicate and inflict the same level of violence being visited on the hapless people of the South-East and South-South states by IPOB on our peace-loving people in Yorubaland.”