Biafra staffs moved under the umbrella of Bilie Human Right Initiative (BHRI), which is registered in Nigeria by a London-based barrister, Emeka Emekaesiri. IPOB and its sister organizations, among which are Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)'s and the Biafra Nations Youth League, BNYL, have accused the Nigerian Army and the police of extrajudicial killings of their members. The Nigerian Government, through its broadcasting regulators, the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigerian (BON) and Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has sought to clamp down on the UK-based station with limited success. On 17 November 2015, the Abia state police
Regional Council of Unrecognized Villages main reason is the planning issue—the state would like to see the Bedouin living in the planned settlements, like Rahat and Hura. However, most of the unrecognized villages are dispersed far apart and are situated in unsuitable places, e.g., military fire zones, natural reserves, landfills, etc. Another reason is an extremely high number of land ownership claims filed by the Bedouin making it impossible to recognize all of them. Negev Bedouin claim the ownership of land totaling some , or 12 times the size of Tel Aviv. Ultimately, the state does want to recognize as many of these unrecognized settlements