{"id":31583,"date":"2020-10-25T15:32:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T15:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=31583"},"modified":"2020-10-25T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T15:32:55","slug":"nigerian-govt-given-90-days-to-conduct-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-given-90-days-to-conduct-referendum","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian govt given 90 days to conduct referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Organization of Emerging African States (OEAS), has renewed its call for the Nigerian government to meet the demands for the actualization of Biafra.<\/p>\n<p>OEAS is an international governmental organization that promotes self-determination and the end to colonial era boundaries in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to DAILY POST on Sunday by its General Secretary, Ebenezer Derek Mbongo Akwanga, Jr., and Jonathan Levy, Chief Administrative Officer, the group noted that, \u201ctoday, the people of Biafra fear the brutality of the Nigeria police who are slaughtering their own citizens and arming herdsman as pro-government militias.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation will surely escalate unless immediate action is taken,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The OEAS further made the following demands to the Nigerian government:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll federal military and police forces in Biafra to stand down and return to their barracks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA snap referendum on Biafran self-determination to be held within 90 days with OEAS, UNPO, and nonaligned observers supervising the balloting process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation in Nigeria is fast spiraling out of control,\u201d the organization said.<\/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 Organization of Emerging African States (OEAS), has renewed its call for the Nigerian government to meet the demands for the actualization of Biafra. OEAS is an international governmental organization that promotes self-determination and the end to colonial era boundaries in Africa. In a statement to DAILY POST on Sunday by its General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":31584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[550,199],"class_list":["post-31583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-biafra","tag-ipob"],"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>Nigerian govt given 90 days to conduct referendum - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Organization of Emerging African States (OEAS), has renewed its call for the Nigerian government to meet the demands\" \/>\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\/nigerian-govt-given-90-days-to-conduct-referendum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian govt given 90 days to conduct referendum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Organization of Emerging African States (OEAS), has renewed its call for the Nigerian government to meet the demands\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-given-90-days-to-conduct-referendum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-25T15:32:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/527da-oeas-biafra-1536x830-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1536\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"830\" \/>\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\/nigerian-govt-given-90-days-to-conduct-referendum#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-given-90-days-to-conduct-referendum\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerian govt given 90 days to conduct referendum\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-25T15:32:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-given-90-days-to-conduct-referendum\"},\"wordCount\":175,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-given-90-days-to-conduct-referendum#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/527da-oeas-biafra-1536x830-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Biafra\",\"IPOB\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-given-90-days-to-conduct-referendum#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-given-90-days-to-conduct-referendum\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-given-90-days-to-conduct-referendum\",\"name\":\"Nigerian govt given 90 days to conduct referendum - 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