Nigeria, July 1 -- Attacks and killings linked to the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and other pro-Biafra groups in Nigeria's South-east declined significantly in 2025, about one year after a controversial Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa, was jailed in Finland, checks by PREMIUM TIMES revealed.

This newspaper comparatively analysed the attacks as well as killings that happened in 2024 and 2025 across the five states in the South-east to determine the decline of the attacks and killings.

The decline after Mr Ekpa's arrest and imprisonment in Finland shows that the Biafra agitator may have contributed to the attacks in the region.

Mr Ekpa, who founded a faction of IPOB called Auto Pilot, was in September 2025 sentenced to six ye...