The leadership of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra has directed all churches across the South-East and parts of the South-South to conduct special memorial and thanksgiving services on Sunday, May 31, 2026.
The group stated that the services are intended to honour and pay tribute to millions of people who lost their lives during the Nigerian-Biafran civil war.
This directive forms part of the line-up of activities marking the 59th anniversary of the declaration of Biafra by the late General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu on May 30, 1967.
The National Director of Information for MASSOB, Edeson Samuel, made this known in an official press release made available to The PUNCH on Monday.
According to the statement, the faction of the movement led by Comrade Uchenna Madu described this year’s anniversary as a significant milestone in the ongoing self-determination struggle.
