[HIGHLIGHTS] Attack in southern Nigeria: six people killed including four police officers

Attack in southern Nigeria: six people killed including four police officers. Attack took place around 5 a.m.

at the Nwofe road police checkpoint on the outskirts of Abakaliki town. The attackers “still at large’ are suspected of being “members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Movement” Separatism is a sensitive subject in Nigeria, where the declaration of an independent Republic of BIAfra by Igbo army officers in 1967 sparked a three-year civil war.