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http://syndicatereporters.com/wp/index.php/2017/07/05/the-arewa-youths-threat-and-the-opportunities-therein-by-livy-elcon-emereonye/
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https://theeagleonline.com.ng/police-teargas-buhari-must-resign-protesters-injure-charlie-boy-journalists/
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https://m.guardian.ng/news/militants-set-october-1-deadline-to-declare-niger-delta-republic/
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http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/southern-leaders-invite-north-re-negotiate-nigeria/amp/
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https://thenigerialawyer.com/questions-before-the-government-of-anambra-state-police-and-catholic-church-over-ozubulu-killings-by-intersociety/
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290904/Archbishop-Justin-Welby-The-shady-Monsieur-Africa-6billion-mission-snap-Nigerias-oil-riches.html
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The state’s Commissioner of Police, CP Garba Umar has warned that the command will leave no stone unturned in fishing out the shooters at St Philip’s Catholic Church Amakwa Ozubulu. Unknown gunmen had today Sunday, 6th August 2017 entered the church, while the mass was going on and shot at worshipers. Following a distress call, men of the police force rushed there and are presently rescuing the worshippers. The hospital authority has confirmed 8persons dead,and 18 injured. The command assures ndi Anambra that the police is on top of the situation and will fish out the perpetrators soon. Intelligence report/Preliminary…
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It is no longer news that unknown gunmen invaded St. Philip Catholic church, Ozubulu early morning of today, Sunday the 6th day of August, 2017, killing not less than 35 people and wounding more. I am just leaving St. Philip Catholic church, the crime scene for a related place. So don’t even think I’m peddling rumours here. What is news is that the Nigerian police has, for the very first time in human history, successfully concluded an investigation into a very heinous crime and came out with a report less than 2 hours after the incident. According to the official…
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http://dailypost.ng/2017/08/06/igbos-marginalised-nnamdi-kanu-must-arrested-edwin-clark/amp/
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http://www.herald.ng/may-vote-southerner-2019-anyone-buhari-arewa-youth-coalition/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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https://amp.ft.com/content/e1040994-77a8-11e7-90c0-90a9d1bc9691
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/08/03/what-an-isis-suicide-attack-looks-like-from-the-air-and-the-ground/
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https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/gunmen-kill-worshippers-in-anambra-church/208781.html
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This is certainly not the best of times for Nigeria. And most certainly not for the advocates of #OneNigeria as Tuesday’s “No Devolution Of Power” vote at the floor of the Senate appears to have finally given a very serious form of institutional credence to the assertion by the Nnamdi kanu led Biafran movement that the Nigeria state is unsalvageable. But beyond the rhetorics and verbal gymnastics, there are some wildly held opinions which the Senate vote has simply elevated to the status of fact. Here are some of them: It is not the Senate as an institution that doesn’t…
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No reasons were readily cited for the new postings and cancellations and amendments of previous postings, but military sources said over the weekend that the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, approved the exercise on July 18. Amongst the seven major generals affected, the Army cancelled the redeployment of Adeniyi Oyebade, two months after he was transferred from being General Officer Commanding of Nigerian Army 1 Division, Kaduna, to Army Headquarters in Abuja as chief of logistics. The shake-up was announced in a memo with reference number MS/G1/3OO/2O7 and signed by I.O. Rabiu, a major general and Military Secretary, military…
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Yoruba Liberation Command, (YOLICOM) Yoruba self-determination now- Our Fatherland, Our blood a Vote for REPUBLIC NOW Address delivered on Thursday July 27 by the Yoruba Liberation Command, (YOLICOM) at the World Press Conference held at International Press Centre, (IPC) Ogba, Lagos. Gentlemen and ladies of the Fourth Estate of the Realm. We are glad to welcome you to this conference. On behalf of Yoruba Liberation Command, (YOLICOM), we are compelled by the prevailing political circumstances to take a stand on the state of Nigeria as it affects the future of over 50 million Yoruba people spread across the world. BRIEFING…
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http://www.farooqkperogi.com/2017/08/ango-abdullahi-northern-nigerian.html?m=1
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Barclays Bank has asked expatriates, including Nigerians, with less than £100,000 deposit to close their accounts In a letter dated June 12, 2017, the bank informed the customers that would be affected by the policy of its decision to raise the minimum client balance requirement for international banking service. The minimum level will now be £100,000. Top up your savings and investments to £100,000 or more before 1 August 2017, to continue with the service, or close your account and transfer your monies to another provider without charge,” the letter read. “We understand that you may be disappointed by this…
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Yoruba Liberation Command, (YOLICOM) Yoruba self-determination now- Our Fatherland, Our blood a Vote for REPUBLIC NOW Address delivered on Thursday July 27 by the Yoruba Liberation Command, (YOLICOM) at the World Press Conference held at International Press Centre, (IPC) Ogba, Lagos. Gentlemen and ladies of the Fourth Estate of the Realm. We are glad to welcome you to this conference. On behalf of Yoruba Liberation Command, (YOLICOM), we are compelled by the prevailing political circumstances to take a stand on the state of Nigeria as it affects the future of over 50 million Yoruba people spread across the world. BRIEFING…
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Convener and national leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, cautioned militants threatening to recommence bombing of oil installations and declare a Republic of Niger Delta, October 1, on account of Federal Government alleged apathy to the peace process in the region, to back out of the dangerous plot. Chief Clark, who spoke on phone on PANDEF,s meeting with Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, in Abuja, said the group was now satisfied that the Federal Government meant well for the region and also disposed to dialogue with the regional body. He also appealed to the…
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http://skytrendnews.com/2017/08/05/fashola-the-man-who-must-give-us-light-by-dele-momodu/
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http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/biafra-legal-political-economic-social-questions/
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https://www.naij.com/1118772-obj-ibb-allegedly-draw-list-4-candidates-replace-buhari-set-conditions.html
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https://www.google.com/amp/www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/kanu-tackles-osinbajo-says-view-biafra-agitation-faulty-misconceived/amp/
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https://www.naij.com/1118707-islamic-movement-demands-release-el-zakzaky-600-days-after.html
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https://www.naij.com/1118730-buhari-return-week-senators-hold-high-powered-meeting-ben-bruce.html
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https://www.naij.com/1118758-why-nnamdi-kanu-arewa-youths-arrested-igp.html
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http://saharareporters.com/2017/08/03/we-have-not-rescinded-quit-notice-biafran-igbo-arewa-youths
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http://metrowatchonline.com/oil-production-48-hours-issuing-threats-fg-osinbajo-hurries-niger-delta-leaders-closed-door-meeting/
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http://punchng.com/fg-reintroduces-history-into-curriculum/amp/
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SHOCKING: 222 Federal Directors, All Northerners, Fail Permanent Secretary Exams Woefully – AIT News
https://aitnewsng.com/2017/07/27/shocking-222-federal-directors-all-northerners-fail-permanent-secretary-exams-woefully/
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https://www.naij.com/1118080-us-releases-report-boko-haram-defeated.html
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http://dailypost.ng/2017/08/01/%e2%80%8bfemi-fani-kayode-nnamdi-kanu-rise-biafra-coming-oduduwa/?utm_source=dlvr.it_dp1&utm_medium=twitter
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http://www.lnc-usa.org/blog/referendum-for-biafra-self-determination-requires-no-nigerias-central-govt-assent-ugo-ukandu/
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https://www.naij.com/1117668-omokri-laments-alleged-internationally-ridicule-president-buharis-absence-ca.html
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https://www.naij.com/1117572-illorin-high-court-freezes-sahara-reporters-bank-accounts.html
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https://www.naij.com/1117573-you-jos-2019-nnamdi-kanu-tells-rochas-okorocha.html
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https://www.naij.com/1117648-orji-kalu-urges-igbos-ignore-agitation-impossible-biafra-fight-presidency.html
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https://m.guardian.ng/business-services/nigeria-is-our-biggest-market-says-moet-chandon-ambassador/
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The ancient city of Ibadan comes alive on Friday July 29, 2017 as dignitaries from all walks of life converge to remember that gallant,brave and outstanding soldier, Col Adekunle Fajuyi, who was murdered 50 years ago by Northern military officers who massed on the capital of the Western Region to take out then Head of State, Major General Johnson Aguiyi- Ironsi. The International Conference at the University of Ibadan is the place to be as prolific writer and teacher, Prof Niyi Osundare, speaks on “Fajuyi and the Politics of Remembrance”. Fiery preacher, Pastor Tunde Bakare and Prof Wale Adebanwi will…
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https://gist.naija.ng/8168-okorocha-prison-manner-looted-imo-state-onyeagucha.html
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https://afroinsider.com/ipob-intel-candy-stallworth-busted-phone-call-audio-with-apc-agent-leaked/
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https://aitnewsng.com/2017/07/21/national-tragedy-as-282-oil-vessels-worth-billions-disappear-mysteriously-under-osinbajos-watch/
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All these years, they monopolized the media and push their own narratives that painted IGBOS black. They made the whole world believe that IGBOS are the only tribe with faults and others are saints. They made everyone, even some gullible IGBOS to believe that IGBOS don’t love themselves while other tribes love themselves so much. They made everyone to believe that only IGBOS love money and wealth while others hate money and wealth! They even made everyone to believe, even some gullible IGBOS that Ojukwu declared war! They made everyone to believe that Nzeogwu’s coup was Igbo coup, even when…
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I am convinced that Femi Adesina has now finally lost his mind. In his latest essay he compared Buhari to David. What on earth is Davidic about Buhari? David was a Spirit-filled believer and a heroic and courageous child of God whilst Buhari is a son of perdition and a tyrannical servant of satan. Femi also said Buhari could have “cut off the heads” of his opponrnts, meaning he could have had them assasinated. Gosh. Poor Femi. He has just made a cardinal spiritual blunder the consequences of which I have no doubt that he will deeply regret. I…
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In the build up to the 2019 general elections, many sons and daughters of Orlu zone in Imo State are worried over what will be the political future and direction of the zone which controls 12 of the 27 Local Government Areas of the state and is responsible for the oil producing state status of Imo. Expectedly, concerns have been expressed that after Orlu Zone has produced two governors in the present democratic dispensations, will it still lay claim on the prize come 2019? Beyond the issue of governorship, majority of our people are worried over the quality of representation…
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Senator Kanti Bello is a former Senate Majority Whip, who represented Katsina North Senatorial District on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before joining the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), one of the legacy parties that formed the APC. How will you assess the Buhari administration in the last two years? I will be frank with you. This is the first interview I am giving in the last two years. I have decided to be quiet. The reason is simple: this is our government and I contributed a lot for the government to be formed, both at…
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• Niger Delta militants groups have drummed support for Nnamdi Kanu’s election boycott order. • The IPOB leader had ordered that the people of south-east should boycott the next Anambra state governorship election. • The militants groups said that the election should be boycotted as ordered by Nnamdi Kanu Niger Delta militant groups have declared their support for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu over his decision to boycott the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra state. The Nation reports that groups, Concerned Militant Leaders (CML), Niger Delta People Democratic Front (NDPDF) and Rainbow Marabas Squad…
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-19/oil-slips-as-industry-data-signals-rise-in-u-s-crude-stockpiles
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In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: “Who lost Europe ?” Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom the Netherlands , at the Four Seasons in New York. Dear friends, Thank you very much for inviting me. I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself,…
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PREAMBLE The persistence for the actualization of Biafra by the unruly Igbo of South-Eastern Nigeria has lately assumed another alarming twist which involved the forceful lockdown of activities and denial of other people’s right to free movement in the South-East by the rebel Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its overt and covert sponsors. This latest action and similar confrontational conducts which amount to a brutal encroachment on the rights of those termed as non-indigenous people residing and doing lawful businesses in those areas illegally demarcated and defined as Biafra by the Igbo, are downright unacceptable and shall no longer…
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Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair was in Nigeria few days ago. What has continued to dominate the air space, however, is the real motive behind the visit. Oblong Media has been reliably informed that the visit with selected persons from the northern part of Nigeria has a lot to do with the 2019 presidential election. According to our sources, the essence of the visit was to map out plans to wrestle power away from the Acting President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo in 2019. Oblong Media sought the opinion of the former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, who…
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Monday, the 10th day of July, 2017 would go down as a momentous day in the annals of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA. The theatre was set at the Court of Appeal, Enugu Division. The battle was reminiscent of the biblical David Vs. Golliath epic, the tortuous Elijah Vs. The prophets of Baal spiritual warfare which pitched the National Chairman of APGA, Ochoudo Martin Agbaso and the party APGA on one hand against the behemoth forces mustered by the former national chairman, Victor Ike Oye and Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State with their shining arrays of learned Silks…
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Restructuring will ensure greater accountability. People are more likely to hold their state and local governments to account once those governments are no longer able to convincingly blame the central government for their shortcomings. I have spoken a few times over a long period of time about the need to restructure our federation in order to make it stronger. Our founding political leaders agreed on and erected a federal system of government. They believed, quite rightly in my view, that such a structure was the only guarantee of national cohesion, in view of our diversity, varying resource endowments, varying levels…
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The Central Intelligence Agency was established to scuttle and derail potential challengers to America’s economic hegemony. Choking and paralysing most potential challengers result from subjecting these countries to endless social crisis, hardship, torture, fear, and psychological warfare. And confirming this strategy, former CIA Director of Plans, Richard Bissell, said, ”The CIA’s interface with the rest of the world needs to be better promoted through our friends in foreign governments….We need repression if we hope to divide these societies into owners and slaves. We need to put the people under continual duress and in a perpetual state of imbalance, so that…
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Retired military generals and other Christian elders under the aegis of National Christian Elders Forum, NCEF, have expressed sadness that Nigeria was drifting towards a needless conflict that could culminate in another war, if not well managed. Rising from a meeting in Abuja, where it reviewed unfolding events in the country, the NCEF, a group of eminent Christian elders, including Elder Solomon Asemota, Gen. Joshua Dogonyaro (retd), Gen. Zamani Lekwot (retd), Elder Moses Ihonde, Gen. T. Y. Danjuma (retd), Elder Shyngle Wigwe, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, called on Nigerian leaders to tread softly to avoid a pending implosion. In a statement…
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“The Supreme court did not raise a dead PDP, they only brought out the rotten corpse of a dead PDP for all to smell the bad odour”- Alhaji Lai Muhammed, Minister of Information, Daily Post, 15th July 2017. I am trying my best to remain magnamonious in victory and to remain restrained but this diaper-wearing, foul-breathed, big-nosed and lying APC Minister of Information has once again brought out the worst in me. Not only has he told yet another dirty and collosal lie but his deeply offensive and disrespectful characterisation and depiction of our great party the PDP is as…
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Hadiza Bala Usman, director-general of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), says she cannot be intimidated by anyone. Speaking in an interview with TVC on Friday, Usman said the authority has been able to achieve a significant level of success within one year. President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Usman on July 12, 2016. She attributed her success to resilience and determination, explaining that her fight against corruption has drawn the ire of some people. “I think it is being forthright, knowing your onions and not being afraid to take on any institutional challenges. The Nigerian public is not comfortable with a person…
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This will literally change the world. And this is exactly why we elected President Trump – to get rid of the useless and burdensome Obama era regulations that held America back from reaching its true potential. We are a nation of laws not a nation of regulations. The liberals think they are the same thing but they are not. Laws are put in place to protect freedom while regulations are used to curtail freedom. That sentence best sums up the differences between the two parties and explains why the Democrats are having hard times winning elections. But that is all…
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Please read that which I have discovered. 1. Jesus taught that there is only One God and Only God should be worshipped as taught in Deut 6:4, Mark 12:29. Muslims also believe this as taught in the Qur’an verse 4:171. 2. Jesus didn’t eat pork as taught in Leviticus 11:7 , and neither do Muslims as taught in the Qur’an verse 6:145. 3. Jesus greeted with the words “as salaamualaikum” (Peace be with you) in John 20:21. Muslims also greet each other this way. 4. Jesus always said “God Willing” (inshallah), Muslims say this too before doing anything as taught…
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Over the past few weeks, a reading and video of a poem I AM A NIGERIAN has been circulating on social media without attribution. It has been sent to me several times, both in video and in text form as Author Unknown. I think it is important first to identify myself publicly as the author of said poem and to talk about why I believe this poem resonates now more than ever. I wrote the poem I AM A NIGERIAN back in 2006 spurred by three key influences – first, the then Federal Government’s Heart of Africa rebranding campaign; second,…
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By a unanimous voice vote, members of the House of Representatives at plenary on Tuesday jettisoned the government policy which subsumed Christian Religious Knowledge, CRK in Civic Education as a compulsory subject in the Secondary School curriculum. Christian Religious Knowledge This followed a motion titled “Call to make Civic Education an optional instead of a compulsory subject for Senior Certificate Examination”, filed by Hon. Beni Lar from Plateau State. The members after an exhaustive debate on the motion agreed that the policy was incongruent with the spirit and letters of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) on the provision of religious…
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Being submission of the lower Niger Congress to the Igbo Summit. Theme: “Navigating the Future”, Convened by the World Igbo Congress, 27th May 2017 at Enugu). PROTOCOLS It gives me great pleasure to welcome us all to the Great Coal City, Enugu. I must commend the Conveners, World Igbo Congress (WIC), for finding the Courage at this difficult juncture of the Igbo Odessey in Nigeria, to bring this Summit to Igboland, right in the middle of the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Biafra,after many years of holding it’s major Public Events in the United States of America, where the…
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Egbema oil field and ogwuta oil and gas reserve is in IMO STATE and yet I have never heard any one from IMO STATE shouting we need our oil, the Government should give us 200% of our oil reserves. The are too busy with education, they don’t even notice there is an oil and gas pipeline in there community. Asaba in DELTA STATE have the largest oil and gas deposit in the STATE. And yet the Igbos from that region have never been interested in joining militants or even coming to facebook to shout we need our oil. You hardly…
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Emerging reports, have revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari, has given Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, a marching order to reshuffle his cabinet. Recall, that Osinbajo on Tuesday, traveled to London, where he met with Buhari behind closed doors. Osinbajo, who has since returned to the country, in the early hours of Wednesday, left for London at about 3:25 p.m., local time, shortly after presiding over the Quarterly Presidential Business Forum, which held at the Presidential Villa. A reliable Presidency source, confirmed that Buhari is not comfortable with some of his close Aides, who have undermined the Acting President in his absence,…
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Governor Simon Bako Lalong of Plateau State has revealed that Igbos own over Seventy Percent of certificates of occupancy he has signed since assuming office. Governor Lalong stated this while commending the Igbo community whom paid a solidarity visit at the Government House. “I had to call the Commissioner for Lands to ask him why it was so and to find out if the indigenous population had quit the state for the Igbo” In a statement mailed to journalists by the governor’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mark Longyen, said Lalong appreciated the Igbo community for boosting and…
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In the context of Nigerian political history, the word re-structuring, which is now very current, should be quite simple, straight forward and without complications, yet some people seem to have difficulties with it. In substance, it simply calls for our going back to the “agreed Nigeria”, that is, going back to the structure or political arrangements of Nigeria, as agreed by the founding fathers – our heroes past! That ‘agreed Nigeria’ was a federal structure, with regions as federating units. Initially there were three regions: Eastern, Western and Northern regions. Midwestern region was created later, making four regions: three in…
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The Supreme Court has dismissed an application filed by a factional leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ali-Modu Sheriff, asking the court not to hear a motion by his challenger, Ahmed Makarfi. Mr. Sheriff had asked the court to refuse hearing on the application filed by Mr. Makarfi, challenging the February 17 judgement of the Appeal Court in Port Harcourt which made Mr. Sheriff leader of the PDP. At the opening of the hearing on Monday, Mr. Sheriff’s lawyer, Akin Olujimi, said the application was an abuse of court process because Mr. Makarfi ought to have requested the leave of…
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The Court of appeal sitting in Enugu extensively sat for 7 hours 37 minutes over the appeals between The National Chairman of APGA Dr Victor Ike Oye, Inspector General of Police, INEC against Comr Mike Alioke. Wole Olanipekun, Patrick Ikwueto , Emeka Etiaba, Onyechi Ikpazu all SANs appeared for Dr Oye , O J Nnadi appeared for Inspector General of Police, Ugwuoke ESQ for INEC while Tochukwu Maduka appeared for APGA Comr Alioke was compelled by the appellate court to represent him self having mischievously failed to appear before the court with a lawyer but chose to come to the…
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“Treat the surrendering Biafrans well or risk their children rising again”- Colonel Phillip Effiong, Vice President of Biafra, 1970. These profound words from a wise and deeply courageous man have proved to be prophetic. The truth is that those that resist the idea of restructuring and that say no to the conducting of a referendum on self-determination by the ethnic nationalities in Nigeria are arch-conservatives that seek to preseve what the French call the “ancien regime”. They are people that have fed fat on Nigeria and the very idea of dismantling and reforming our constitutional structure, redefining our nation and…
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On July 6, 1967, civil war broke out in Nigeria between the country’s military and the forces of Biafra, an independent republic proclaimed by ex-Nigerian military officer Odumegwu Ojukwu on May 30 of that year. The war killed more than 1 million people, many of whom died from starvation. It ended in January 1970 with the reintegration of Biafra into Nigeria. Malnutrition, Red Cross, kwashiorkor, relief flights, genocide, the Uli airstrip used by Biafran planes to elude the Nigerian blockade, mercenaries, the Aburi accord that broke down and led to war—these are some of the memory triggers of the Nigerian…
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“I write with reference to your letter (Ref – FRAW/AO/CB/11/71 of 8th October, 1971 to inform you that your client’s entitlement as a depositor was £20 ex gratia award authorized by the Federal Government” Signed by E. N. ISONG Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria As applied by the Supreme Court of Nigeria in the celebrated case of CHIEF J. J. ENWEOZOR V. CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (1976)1 ALL NLR PAGE 252 AT PAGE 256. This letter, dated the 18th day of October, 1971, signed by E. N. ISONG, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, addressed to Chief…
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As amply articulated in the ALADIMMA EPISTLE (2012), the nature of the Constitutional shackles by which the Igbo is bound, tethered and marooned in Nigeria is such that any solution that does not Constitutionally unshackle the Igbo would at best amount to a token of amelioration to buy the peace of now since the efforts to break the chains, by whatever name called including “Biafra”, will not go away until the chains are truly broken. In considering the options open to Nd’Igbo for removing the Constitutional shackles which hold the Igbo down and lock away so much potential, it is…
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“I remember I wrote an article during the (civil) war and I said at that time that Biafra cannot be defeated, People misunderstood what I was saying”. I said once an idea has taken hold, you cannot destroy that idea… “You may destroy the people that carry the idea on the battlefield, but, ultimately, it is not the end of the story.” I was even arrested and detained for almost two years by Nigeria’s then-military regime over my alleged interaction with the Biafra leadership under General Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. What the Nigeria’s government needed now is to talk to pro-Biafra agitators,…
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A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, tells BAYO AKINLOYE that the only way to avoid a civil war is for Nigeria to be restructured What do you think about calls for the restructuring of Nigeria? It is absolutely necessary and it is the only way forward. Some have argued that what the country needs now isn’t the restructuring of the country but good leadership. Isn’t that correct? Those that say so have been saying that for the last 30 years and it’s been proved wrong. Nothing can change the fortune of Nigeria without restructuring. We must restructure this country…
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A delegate to the 2014 National Conference and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), tells BAYO AKINLOYE what he thinks about calls for restructuring. Why do you think many politicians are calling for a restructuring of Nigeria? Nigeria is facing a lot of challenges and the sudden call by politicians for a restructured Nigeria is not well-meaning because they are making such calls for a political end aimed at 2019 and they are already taking their positions. Politicians cannot sit down in one place and discuss solely in their interest to promote something that is fashionable.…
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Poetically, Friedrich Nietzsche saw ahead of his time. He crafted a parable to describe the winds of disbelief that would blow over modern Europe. A mad man lit a lantern at noon and went into the public market looking for God: “Where is God?” Mocked by the townspeople in an escalating series of exchanges, he finally threw the lantern to the ground. It shattered and the light went out. “God is dead,” cried the madman, “and we have killed him.” “Let the churches begin the funeral.” While everyone laughed, Nietzsche said that his generation was not ready for the news…
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As Delivered by Nwadike Ifesinachi Johnpaul (Mazi Johnpaul) on 07/07/2017 On the ING Lecture Series Platform. Let me begin by submitting my immense gratitude to the ING Lecture Series Committee for finding me worthy to be long listed in this honourable tradition of interaction with one’s kin. It gives me great pleasure to note that the lectures are by no means an engagement of a hierarchical order, hence the decision of the committee to opt for a youth to handle today’s session is highly commendable. On July 2, when, Sir Gerrard Ibe approached me with the request, I was eager…
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Following a flurry of enquiries coming to the LNC Secretariat seeking explanations on what the LNC Referendum Template which is being adopted by the Biafran Agitation Groups, entails, the Secretariat posits as follows: The LNC Template basically consists of a two-pronged process of Countrywide Delegitimization and Repudiation of the fraudulent 1999 Nigerian Constitution leading to the orderly deconstitution and dismantling of the present pseudo-Federation and the willful aggregation of independent units of Regionally-willing and compatible contiguities. These compatible contiguities, which include the prospective Federation of the various Indigenous Peoples of the Lower Niger, shall emerge via Referendum in exercise of…
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A group of Nigeria Media Practitioners based in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory that go by the name ‘The Third Eye’ say they have uncovered plans by the Nigeria Federal government to assassinate Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra. In a personal message sent to the IPOB high command by the leader of The Third Eye who preferred anonymity simply reads “on the next adjourned date of the case of treasonable felony preferred against your leader, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, the Nigeria Government through special snippers of the Department of State Services (DSS) has perfected plans…
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A lawyer and medical practitioner, John Larry Ojukoko Esq. and Dr. Ejiro Imuere, have approached a Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, seeking an order of mandamus compelling the Senate President and Speaker, House of Representatives, to set up a medical panel to examine the medical fitness of ailing President Muhammadu Buhari and remove him if he can no longer continue. Joined in the suit are the Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, and Attorney General of the Federation. Specifically, the plaintiffs want the court to determine the following: “Whether or not by the combined effect of sections…
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Considering the growing acceptance of the Call for the Restructuring and Renegotiation of Nigeria and the fact that the Call is now being misinterpreted and misrepresented by persons who may obviate the true intents, it has become imperative to state in succinct terms, the imperatives of the Restructuring and Renegotiation in the Nigerian context. Full fiscal federalism – Ownership Of resources residing in component units of the Federation will rest with such component units, with payment of agreed taxes to support the Federal Government. Clarifying who and what a Nigerian means. Definition of a Nigerian. Entitlements based on Nationality and…
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You stay in your corner everyday to whine and complain about the evil and misrule in this jungle, called Nigeria. You complain about the wicked, parversive, criminal and fraudulent activities in the National Assembly. You curse and rant on the monumental corruption there and in Aso coven . Your timeline is filled with loads and records of daily abuses of political office holders occasioned by the misrule in Nigeria . You are frustrated endlessly because Nigeria is retrogressing when other peer nations are moving forward. You daily acknowledge and complain that the political office holders at all levels and arms…
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As wife petitions Dogara over incessant harrassment from security agencies. TW0 Members of the House of Representatives, Mr Diri Duoye and Ms Boma Goodhead both from Bayelsa and Rivers respectively on Thursday threatened to beat up Mr Razak Atunwa over his invitation to former President Goodluck Jonathan to explain his alleged role in the OPL 245 Malabu Oil deal. Former President Goodluck Jonathan This is just as his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan petitions Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara asking that security agencies should stop harrassing her. Rep Diri Duoye apparently disturbed as the direct representative of the former Number…
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SaharaReporters has learned from presidency sources that Senate President Bukola Saraki has formed an alliance with a cabal within the Aso Rock Villa determined on confusion and disorder rather than witness Acting President Yemi Osinbajo assume full presidential powers. The new balance of forces emerges as the cabal has found it impracticable in the past few weeks to bring back ailing President Muhammadu Buhari to the country. Buhari’s doctors continue to insist he cannot function or run Nigeria in his present state of health, but the cabal, which is using ethnicity and religious sentiments to foment deep-seated animosity against the…
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Nigeria is awash in nervous speculation over the health of President Muhammadu Buhari, who hasn’t appeared in public since he returned to the U.K. for medical treatment for an undisclosed ailment on May 7. Buhari, 74 and a Muslim, has formally designated his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo, acting president as he did when he was away on medical leave for 49 days from Jan. 20. The prospect of Osinbajo, a 60-year-old Christian, serving out the remaining two years of Buhari’s term raises the specter of sectarian tension in a country that has seen plenty of it in the past. Succession jitters…
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The broadcast on Biafra by Al-Jazeera must have hit home. I know this for sure with the rush by apologists of the Military-North Complex to indulge in their favourite revisionism. The first Nigeria coup is always their takeoff point. However, we Ndi Igbo will never stop telling our story. The first coup that they keep labeling the Igbo coup because some of its leaders were Igbo, was never an Igbo coup. If the Military-North Complex that ruled and ruined Nigeria is willing to defend their assertions, let the Federal government of Nigeria muster the will to set up a Commission…
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Former Governor of Akwa Ibom State and the Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, has said that Nigeria’s survival depends on the resolution of the Biafran agitation. Akpabio said this while addressing his constituents in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, where he organised a constituency briefing and empowerment programme for his constituents in Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District “However, that heart needs close monitoring because if the diseased parts of this country do not get healed soon, the heart would get worse for it. “If the Biafra agitation is not fixed, if the Arewa threat of the eviction of Igbos…
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Prominent on the list is Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo, the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, six academics, one female, Mrs Oluwatoyin Ajoke Bahorun and other practising lawyers. Also approved were the Attorney-General of Kwara State, Mr Lamaldeen Adeyemi Ajibade and a former DG of the National Copyrights Commission, Professor Adebambo Adewopo. 156 lawyers applied, 72 were shortlisted and only 30 were approved by the NJC. The conferring authority, the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) took the decision at its 127th General Meeting held in Abuja. The Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court and Secretary to the…
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Members of the Core Federalists held their Inaugural Meeting on Thursday, July 06, 2017 in Lagos to reflect on the emerging challenges of the Nigerian-state and on how to support the process of nation building. After due reflection and consideration of the sociopolitical developments in the country resolved as follows: 1. Note with concerns that the multiplicity of self determination agitations and political grandstanding leading to the deepening of inherent cleavages in the country; observing that the trend is inimical to the continued existence of the country as an entity. 2. Acknowledge that the interests of all the ethnocultural groups…
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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo said on Thursday that the Federal Government would soon come out with policies to address the clamour by Nigerians for the restructuring of the country. Mr. Osinbajo made the disclosure at the presentation and launch of a book titled: Nigeria: “The Restructuring Controversy” in Abuja. He was represented by his Special Adviser on Political Matters, Babafemi Ojudu. Mr. Osinbajo said all the debates on the restructuring of the country by Nigerians were being noted by the Federal Government. “We are looking at all contributions made by Nigerians across the country. “Very soon we will come out…
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is in a serious quagmire. But unfortunately, he is oblivious to and of it. Even if he is not, he has no tools to help himself. His fish, it seems, has no water on its back. The ongoing war in Abuja for power is emblematic of the nature and character of the Nigerian state that hopefully would lead to the Nunc Dimittis of a tragedy called a country. As events continue to unfold, those still acting like ostriches, shouting ONE NIGERIA, would have some education and have theirs eyes opened. For those theorists who see this…
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Imo State Governor and the Chairman, All Progressives Peoples (APC) Governors Forum, Rochas Okorocha in an interactive session with members of State House Press Corps, noted that the neglect of the youths was responsible for the agitation in the South -East. According to him, the youths are frustrated and are using agitation to vent their anger. He also accuses Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose of deliberately heating up the polity with his allegations that President Muhammadu Buhari was on life support. What is your reaction to recent happenings in the policy? As you are aware we are passing through a…
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Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka has voiced out again on the health of President Muhammadu Buhari. Mbaka, who was speaking during a weekly programme entitled ‘E No Dey Again’ held on Wednesday, said he heard a cry like pattering of the rain from the Aso Rock chamber. The cleric said he got a vision to rush to Aso Rock but on reaching there, nobody was ready to take him to where Buhari is in the UK. The cleric during the programme said he had a vision where he was at a meeting in Aso Rock, which had Ibrahim Babaginda in attendance.…
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has warned that Nigerians must do everything possible to stop the agitation for Biafra led by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Speaking at the launch of the biography of late Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari on Tuesday, Obasanjo warned that failure to do so could lead to a repeat of the 1966 coup and the events that led to unprecedented bloodshed in the country. The former president said the top most lessons for Nigerians to learn from unfolding events in the country are that the nation has had enough of tragedies. “So far,…
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One of the best things that can happen to anyone is for his enemy to make the mistake that will advance his cause. This almost always brings about a total turn around for uncommon self-realization and meaningful exploit. So let your enemies make the mistakes even when they cause you pains, transient pains, you will end up better, bigger and stronger. In a typical problematic polygamous family, problem ends up making some half-brothers wiser. Yes, when you are accused of foolishness, the right thing to do is to put your senses into task and become wiser after re-examining yourself and…
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Ohan’eze Ndi Igbo should not confront IPOB, Kanu or the youths to avoid the unthinkable. If they have any advice or suggestion for them, they should do it off the print media. They goofed last time. One cannot read Afenifere berating OPC on the pages of newspapers or ACF on their youths in public. Igbos, despite their population and business acumen, they are politically naive. That’s why other tribes manipulate Igbos like the pool batters. Youths are more populous, and if they begin to disrespect Ohan’eze, they will lose value in Igboland. They are about to lose the little they…
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