AGITATION FOR INDEPENDENT STATE OF BIAFRA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS UNDER DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAWS
Abstract
This paper examines the declaration of the independent state of Biafra by the Indigenous peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and others in the Eastern region of today’s Nigeria, the domestic human rights legal regime, including the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and implications under International Human Rights law. The paper commences with an introduction on the history of the Biafra succession/the declaration of the independence state of Biafra by the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) and others, the recent history of the IPOB struggle for an independent of Republic of Biafra out of the Republic of Nigeria, the Kaduna declaration against the Biafra agitation by 16 groupings of the Northern region extraction, the response of the Federal Government on the activities the Biafra agitators and the implications under international human rights law.
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