{"id":79758,"date":"2025-12-07T13:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79758"},"modified":"2025-12-07T13:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:22:23","slug":"ipob-urges-igbo-travellers-to-return-home-for-christmas-assures-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/07\/ipob-urges-igbo-travellers-to-return-home-for-christmas-assures-security\/","title":{"rendered":"IPOB Urges Igbo Travellers to Return Home for Christmas, Assures Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has called on Igbo people across Nigeria and abroad to return home for Christmas, assuring that the Southeast remains safe for the festive season.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, IPOB spokesperson Emma Powerful said operatives of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), working with community volunteers, would provide security throughout the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>He maintained that the region is stable despite \u201cexaggerated\u201d reports of insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>Powerful dismissed a viral video of an alleged kidnapping on the Owerri-Aba Expressway as an old clip recirculated to cause panic.<\/p>\n<p>He added that ESN does not operate any official social media accounts, warning the public against misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>IPOB accused political actors of attempting to undermine its operations but reaffirmed its commitment to the peaceful pursuit of Biafra.<\/p>\n<p>The group urged Ndigbo to \u201creturn home, celebrate confidently, and contribute to the region\u2019s development,\u201d pledging the safety of all travellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has called on Igbo people across Nigeria and abroad to return home for Christmas, assuring that the Southeast remains safe for the festive season. In a statement on Sunday, IPOB spokesperson Emma Powerful said operatives of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), working with community volunteers, would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79760,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79758\/revisions\/79760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}