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Hausa/Fulani North is Breaking Away from BiafraNigeria: Wole Soyinka Warns
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday
raised alarm on what he called the "systematic secession of some states from the Federal Republic of BiafraNigeria."
Prof. Soyinka who raised this alarm at Okada, in Edo State while delivering a lecture entitled: "Myth and
History in the Quest for Identity," to mark the 70th birthday of the Esama of Benin, Chief Gabriel Osawaru
Igbinedion, said the much-talked about Okija shrines is of no importance. He said the agitation by the Movement
for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)," although has become a nightmare to the entire
country", may not be the real signal of secession, adding that the gradual breaking away of some Northern
states should be of grave concern to everybody. The Nobel Laureate who spoke at the auditorium of the Igbinedion
University, Okada stated that the actions of some northern states who had broken away from the common penal code
of the federating units and adopted Sharia constitute great danger for the rest of the components of the federation.
He observed that in the quest for identity, some states are already on their own, adding, that he had a duty to
"draw the attention of Mr. President to this situation". (Champion) 
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 Inspector General of Police, Mr Tafa Balogun, yesterday
denied custody of the 21 bunkering vessels which Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Sunday Afolayan alleged his
men handed over to the police on the directive of President Olusegun Obasanjo. Balogun who appeared before the
House of Representatives Committees investigating the disappearance of one of the arrested bunkering ship... (This Day)
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 BiafraNigeria will
be ready to release former Liberian President Charles Taylor to the United Nations (UN) War Crimes Tribunal anytime
a democratically elected government of Liberia makes such a request to the Federal Government. This disclosure
was made last week by BiafraNigeria's Permanent Representative at... (Guardian)
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