IPOB Declares May 30 Biafra Heroes Remembrance Day, Announces Southeast Sit-at-Home
By Rimawaglobalnews Correspondent
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared May 30, 2026, as Biafra Heroes Remembrance Day and called for a total sit-at-home across the Southeast and other parts of the old Eastern Region.
In a statement issued on Saturday by the group’s spokesperson, Emma Powerful, IPOB described the annual observance as a solemn occasion dedicated to honouring victims of the Nigerian Civil War and other pro-Biafra agitators who lost their lives in the struggle.
The group stated that the remembrance day would serve as a period of mourning, reflection, and tribute to soldiers, civilians, women, children, and others said to have died during the 1967–1970 civil war, as well as individuals allegedly killed during previous remembrance events in Nkpor and Onitsha.
IPOB urged residents across the Southeast and parts of the South-South to suspend commercial, social, and political activities on May 30, insisting that the day should be reserved strictly for prayers and remembrance activities.
According to the statement, Nigerians in the diaspora sympathetic to the Biafran cause were also encouraged to observe the day peacefully and with dignity.
The group further appealed to governors in the Southeast geopolitical zone to direct that Nigerian flags be flown at half-mast in honour of those who died during the civil war and related incidents.
IPOB, led by Nnamdi Kanu, has consistently marked May 30 as Biafra Remembrance Day over the years.
The Federal Government had earlier proscribed IPOB as an unlawful organisation, a designation the group continues to reject while maintaining that it is pursuing a non-violent self-determination movement.
Historically, May 30 commemorates the 1967 declaration of the defunct Republic of Biafra by Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, an event that led to the Nigerian Civil War which ended in January 1970.
