Plateau State governor Simon Lalong together with other governors inward Nigeria on Fri moved to calm fears after clashes betwixt pro-Biafra supporters together with the military machine risked taking on a wider ethnic dimension.
In Jos, the uppercase of the cardinal province of governor Lalong summoned leaders of the Hausa together with Igbo communities for talks next skirmishes on Thursday.
At to the lowest degree 2 people were reported to convey been killed inward violence at 2 markets but police push clit managed to restore command past times firing alert shots into the air, eye-witnesses said.
Lalong, who called the clashes "avoidable together with totally unnecessary", imposed an indefinite dusk-to-dawn curfew inward the urban meat on Thursday.
Jos lies at the error job of Nigeria's religious separate betwixt its mainly Muslim due north together with the predominantly Christian south, together with has been hitting past times violence inward the past.
The Hausa are the dominant ethnic grouping inward the due north piece the Igbo are mainly flora inward the southeast.
In June, Igbo people living inward the northern urban meat of Kaduna were told to leave, every bit separatist consider surged inward dissimilar parts of the country.
In recent days, supporters of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) crusade clashed amongst the safety services inward the southern urban meat of Port Harcourt together with southeastern province of Abia.
The military machine claims a build-up of troops inward Abia together with simply about the abode of IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu inward the province capital, Umuahia, is business office of an functioning against vehement crime.
But IPOB suspects it is designed to crackdown on its activities. The grouping wants the Igbos to secede together with practise an independent commonwealth of Biafra.
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A Nigerian regular army spokesman, Colonel Sagir Musa, rejected every bit "baseless together with mischievous" claims that troops invaded Kanu's compound.
Kanu is currently on bail pending the resumption of his trial inward the capital, Abuja, on charges of treasonable felony.
Eye-witnesses to the clashes inward Jos said Igbos were defendant of "killing Hausas inward the southeast", although at that topographic point has been no official confirmation of such claims.
In Abia, province governor Okezie Ikpeazu said soldiers would live gradually withdrawn from the streets together with he would enhance the termination amongst President Muhammadu Buhari.
In the northwestern province of Niger, governor Abubakar Sani Bello warned citizens against "hate speeches, vehement agitation, rumour together with sentiment" likewise every bit reprisal attacks.
"Niger province is real cardinal inward Nigeria's development together with has e'er been a melting pot of people from diverse parts of the world," he said inward a statement.