{"id":27680,"date":"2020-07-22T16:51:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T16:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=27680"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:51:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T16:51:10","slug":"nnamdi-kanu-ipob-call-for-end-of-attacks-on-yoruba-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-call-for-end-of-attacks-on-yoruba-race","title":{"rendered":"Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB call for end of attacks on Yoruba race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has told its members to halt all forms of attacks against the Yoruba nation with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Leader of the IPOB worldwide, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu gave the directive in a statement signed by Mazi Chika Edoziem, the organization\u2019s Head of Directorate of State.<\/p>\n<p>By the new directive, according to the statement, all media personnel operating on different segments and platforms of the organisation as well as the generality of IPOB members, are not expected to attack the Yorubas going forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsequent upon the directive by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the IPOB, worldwide during his live broadcast of Sunday, 19th of July 2020 to the effect that all attacks on Yoruba people should cease forthwith, Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra has deemed it instructive to reiterate and reaffirm the adherence by all to that directive from our leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo this effect, all IPOB media personnel operating on different segments and platforms be it on print, radio, visual and social media as well as the generality of IPOB family members must strictly obey that directive as given by our leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201clt is time to exhibit once again the discipline for which IPOB is known for. We must use the knowledge and information acquired from Radio Biafra during Kanu\u2019s teachings and those attained from individual research to present our viewpoints on issues of public interest and debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2\" data-layout=\"list\">\n<div class=\"jp-related-posts-i2__row\" data-post-count=\"3\"><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has told its members to halt all forms of attacks against the Yoruba nation with immediate effect. Leader of the IPOB worldwide, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu gave the directive in a statement signed by Mazi Chika Edoziem, the organization\u2019s Head of Directorate of State. By the new directive, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":14443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[199,200],"class_list":["post-27680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-ipob","tag-kanu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB call for end of attacks on Yoruba race - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has told its members to halt all forms of attacks against the Yoruba\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-call-for-end-of-attacks-on-yoruba-race\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB call for end of attacks on Yoruba race\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has told its members to halt all forms of attacks against the Yoruba\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-call-for-end-of-attacks-on-yoruba-race\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-22T16:51:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/08\/biafra_ipob-5d5d5b9f3f2c6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-call-for-end-of-attacks-on-yoruba-race#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-call-for-end-of-attacks-on-yoruba-race\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB call for end of attacks on Yoruba race\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-22T16:51:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-call-for-end-of-attacks-on-yoruba-race\"},\"wordCount\":248,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-call-for-end-of-attacks-on-yoruba-race#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/08\/biafra_ipob-5d5d5b9f3f2c6.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"IPOB\",\"Kanu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-call-for-end-of-attacks-on-yoruba-race#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-call-for-end-of-attacks-on-yoruba-race\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nnamdi-kanu-ipob-call-for-end-of-attacks-on-yoruba-race\",\"name\":\"Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB call for end of attacks on Yoruba race - 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