A call by the pro-secessionist Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) group for a sit-at-home protest in Nigeria’s south-east has been heeded, according to posts on Twitter:
There is total locked down of Biafraland,everybody is inside as ordered by d leader of indigenous people of Biafra Maxi #NnamdiKanu 30thMay
Popular Konwe plaza in ASABA totally shut down. Biafra heroes day
The protest is intended to mark 50 years since then-head of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, Colonel Emeka Ojukwu, unilaterally declared the independent Republic of Biafra.
More than two years later, after one million civilians had died in fighting and from famine, Biafra was re-absorbed into Nigeria.
