In a statement issued on Friday, May 29, 2026, by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, IPOB said the annual “Biafra Heroes Remembrance Day” was dedicated to honouring “millions of men, women, and children whose lives were lost during the Biafran struggle for survival.”
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has called on people of the South-East region across Nigeria and in the diaspora to observe May 30, 2026, as a solemn day of remembrance for those killed during the Nigerian civil war, describing the occasion as “a sacred covenant between the living and the dead.”
In a statement issued on Friday, May 29, 2026, by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, IPOB said the annual “Biafra Heroes Remembrance Day” was dedicated to honouring “millions of men, women, and children whose lives were lost during the Biafran struggle for survival.”
The group insisted that the memory of those who died during the civil war could never be erased, despite what it described as attempts at “historical revisionism” and political silence.
“This is not merely a date on a calendar. It is a sacred covenant between the living and the dead,” Powerful stated.
