Radio Biafra Hits Nigerian Airwaves.

As if Nigeria did not have enough headaches already, a radio station subscribing to the ill-fated Republic of Biafra has started airing broadcasts, 56 days after the funeral of the secessionist state’s leader, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.
Listeners across Nigeria have been greeted by fiery broadcasts from the re-launched Radio Biafra, the rebel broadcast station that first hit the airwaves during the 1967-70 civil war that claimed some three million lives.
Emotions ranged from shock to excitement with curious Nigerians fiddling with their transistor radios as word of the broadcasts spread through phone calls and text messages.
Radio Biafra, broadcasting from London, hit the airwaves at 8pm Saturday on 11870 kHz frequency on the shortwave band.
According to the station director, Mr Nnamdi Kanu, the station will broadcast twice weekly “for now”

A statement on the station’s website informs listeners in the Greater London area to tune into 94.3FM at the same Nigerian local time, while anyone outside London and elsewhere may follow the programmes online by visiting www.radiobiafralondon.com.
Mr Kanu said Radio Biafra would give voice to the Igbo community who he described as a marginalised lot in Nigeria.

“The Nigeria-Biafra war ended in 1970, but that is only in theory; in practice, the Nigerian state has continued to wage political and economic war on the Igbo people, many of whom have been forced to flee Nigeria by migrating to other countries,” he argued