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Let us try to summarise the agreements reached by Nigerian founding fathers at the London constitutional conference of July 30-August 22, 1953 and the follow-up Lagos constitutional conference of January 1954. This two confab recommendations were adopted within six months to become the Lyttleton Constitution of 1954 that birthed Nigeria’s federalism. They all agreed that; (1) Her Majesty’s Governments could grants self-governments to those regions, which desired it in 1956. (2) That legislative power should be shared between the federal state and the federating units. (3) That a conference to be held in Lagos in 1954, should ratify a separate…
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— I have been reading a number of articles and essays written by so-called Igbo scholars and intellectuals on Biafra and on-going challenges in Nigeria. Some of them make me sick. I have never wanted to respond to them except on few occasions. However, this piece by Dr. Nicky Okoye warranted such a response. Even though, I’m not in the business of responding to writers and public commentators, because I believe each person is entitled to his or her opinion; however, it must be based on facts. Ideas and opinions based on facts not on selfish and self-seeking purposes. And…
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A former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has described the recent quit notice issued by the Coalition of Northern Youths and the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) to the people of South-East resident in the North as a big mistake and a condemnable act. Kalu, a politician and business mogul, said it was unfortunate that such utterances were made by Nigerians against fellow citizens. He, however, applauded the Northern States Governors’ Forum (NGF) for promptly condemning the action. The former governor, who reaffirmed his faith in the unity and oneness of Nigeria, said unguarded utterances that tend to…
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Babatunde Fashola, minster of power, works and housing, says there are aspects of the 2017 appropriation act that violate the constitution, suggesting that the judiciary may have to explain how far lawmakers can go in altering the budget. Acting President Yemi Osinbajo had questioned the extent of changes made to the 2017 appropriation bill by the federal lawmakers, who replied that the national assembly acted within the law and is not a rubber-stamp body. But in an interview with TheCable at the weekend, Fashola said there may be need for judicial interpretation to lay the controversy to rest, pointing out…
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“Asking for Biafra is against Nigeria’s Constitution and you will be Jailed”~~~Yemi Osinbajo. Who told Osinbajo that quest for self determination is a crime?? Hearing this from a law professor is borderline imbecilic. The right of indigenous people to determine their future is a right recognised by all laws known to man. When my ancestry was forcefully joined in a murderous union with people with whom I share absolutely nothing in common, was any of Nigeria’s component units consulted?? And why was the deaf and dumb Osinbajo suddenly running his mouth?? Oh, is it because Biafra is the topic?? This…
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From his recuperation room in London, President Muhammadu Buhari, has reportedly been resisting attempts by some government officials, including ministers to undermine Acting President Yemi Osinbajo. He has refused to see such officials who sneak to the United Kingdom with files for his signature, it was gathered yesterday. Buhari, authoritative government sources said, rejected the files and asked the affected government functionaries to take all documents and issues to Acting President Osinbajo. He has also refused to grant audience to ministers and some presidential aides who indicated interest to see him. But the President met with First Lady Aisha during…
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REMARKS BY THE ACTING PRESIDENT FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF. YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, GCON AT A MEETING WITH TRADITIONAL RULERS FROM THE SOUTH-EAST AT THE OLD BANQUET HALL, STATE HOUSE, ABUJA ON JUNE 18, 2017. “It will be wrong of us to approach even our grievances by threatening to disobey the laws or by threatening the integrity of our nation.’’ PROTOCOLS Let me begin by thanking all of our royal fathers who have taken the time to come today. I know the notice has been extremely short but the reason why you have nevertheless honoured our invitation is…
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Leaders of South-West, South-East and South-South on Sunday strongly called on Arewa youths and their sponsors to withdraw the quit notice given to the people of the South-East as failure to do so will be taken as an ultimatum given to the entire Southern Nigerians to quit their region. The prominent leaders, who comprised pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo; former Chief of Staff, Ebitu Ukiwe; Albert Horsfall, Jor Irukwu, former Minister of Information, Walter Ofonagoro; Senator Femi Okunronmu, Senator Bassey Henshaw, among others, declared that any attack against anybody from the South would be considered an attack against…
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The role of the youth in credible elections – being a text of lecture delivered by Livy-Elcon Emereonye at Nwangele L.G.A. Youths Conference on June 17, 2017, Nwangele Headquarter’s Hall, Nwangele, Imo State. Protocol It’s with pleasure that I accepted the invitation to be one of the speakers at this occasion. I salute the organizers of this programme for taking such a bold initiative. They have not only discovered a need but have gone further to proffer solutions. This is the right step in the right direction. The topic, “The role of the youth in credible elections” with emphasis on…
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Read full open letter below: June, 19th 2017 His Excellency, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Acting President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Aso Rock Presidential Villa Abuja Your Excellency, APPRECIATION On behalf of this coalition and all the peace-loving people of Northern Nigeria, we begin this letter by commending your efforts towards finding a lasting solution to the lingering Igbo-induced crisis that is undoubtedly overheating the polity. We sincerely believe Your Excellency’s good intentions as shown by your prompt and genuine actions towards ensuring peace and stability in holding talks with leaders of the North and the South-East. Though we do not doubt…
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In life, the worst miscalculation a group could make is to take the patience or tolerance of others for granted. As an individual, I hold the opinion that Nigeria as amalgamated by the British in 1914 could stand tall in, not only Africa, but the comity of nations. With our geographical size, population and human capacity, there is hardly any economy that Nigeria can not sustain. Besides, the country is abundantly blessed with natural resources. Though very heterogeneous by composition, our diversity, if properly harnessed, should have been our major source of strength and, may be, pride. Taking advanced cognizance…
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The Presidency may shun the Senate resolution asking it to forward the 2014 National Conference report to the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly for urgent legislative action, SUNDAY PUNCH’s investigation has revealed. Former President Goodluck Jonathan had convened the national conference in 2014 as part of efforts to address some of the challenges facing the nation. At its sitting on Wednesday, the Senate resolved that deliberations on the recommendations of the conference would be the way forward for the country. It therefore asked the presidency to send the conference report in the form of an Executive Bill. But a…
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Nigeria’s Federal Government has just announced the commencement of offers for its Sukuk (Shari’a compliant ) Bonds. Sukuk Bonds and financial instruments are designed to ensure investment in solely Shari’a compliant investments and activities. Some of the questions now arising include:: 1. Why would Nigeria, a supposedly secular state, or at the very least a multi-religious state, issue Shari’a compliant bonds/financial instruments? 2. Will the entirety of the Nigerian Federation have to be Shari’a compliant at the time of the redemption of the Sukuk Bonds? 3. Is it possible to extricate proceeds from Value added Taxes (VAT) derived from breweries…
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I believe in One Nigeria. I know, you’re going to start asking me why – with herdsman running rampage, and Oba saying ‘jump in lagoon’, and Arewa Youth giving till October 1, and Evans and co waiting for me at home; with corruption, dysfunction and discriminatory cut-off marks, bombings in the South and shootings in the North; with President promising to work according to vote, bad schools, no-light, poor hospitals, bad roads; with Dino waxing new hits every day, newspaper trials and no convictions; with billions stashed in Ikoyi apartment – what can I say? It’s home. For one, I…
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“When I got to the bedside of the Head of State, he was already gasping. Ordinarily, I could not just touch him. It was not allowed in our job. But under the situation on ground, I knelt close to him and shouted, “General Sani Abacha, Sir, please grant me permission to touch and carry you.” Contrary to insinuations, speculations and sad rumours initiated by some sections of the society, i maintain that the sudden collapse of the health system of the late Head of State started previous day (Sunday, 7th June, 1998) right from the Abuja International Airport immediately after…
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More would certainly be achieved if more and more of our pastors, imams and traditional priests join in helping to enshrine a custom that dishonours wealth which provenance is either suspicious or unknown. No more recognition or glorifying so-called business moguls of no visible merchandise and who purport to run an offices without identifiable addresses. Mathew Hassan Kukah (MHK), it was, who perhaps best framed a key ethical question bogging the contemporary society with collapsing values. To reclaim the moral boundary, the engaging Catholic Bishop once argued that it is no longer enough for the cleric to expressly grant the…
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The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Thursday, berated the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, saying the peace and conflict resolution meeting he held with some Igbo leaders of thought without its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to address the recent hate speech against Ndigbo by some northern groups is unacceptable to them. A statement issued in Awka, Anambra State, by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Thursday, said that those who attended the meeting had no major stake in the conflict intended to be resolved. Recall that Professor Osinbajo had, Wednesday, met in Abuja with the leadership of Ohaneze…
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Scene one: CCT freed Tinubu – we applauded CCT freed Saraki – We complained Scene two: Saraki hired five SANs – we criticise Buhari hired 13 SANs on Certificate case – we applauded Scene Three: Yemi Osinbajo led 65 SANs to defend Tinubu at CCT trial, we applauded. Kanu Agabi led 65 SANs to defend Saraki at CCT trial, we screamed blue murder. Scene Four: Adeyemi Ikuforiji, as ACN Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly was tried by the EFCC for corruption but never vacated as Speaker throughout his trial- We kept quiet Saraki as Senate president faced trial…
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As the piece from Dahiru Yusuf Yabo clearly shows, those who salivate over an ill thought out restructuring option may indeed be looking at only one side of the coin. We now have a chance of knowing what “Restructuring” means to our compatriots in the North. To the referenced article’s writer, Restructuring simply means itemization of a long list of goodies to be rendered on a platter of gold to the North before they would begin to consider the possibility of tampering with the status quo. In the interim, stance of the North is “No to restructuring and no to…
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We need the following as our share for national economic developments. 1• Ajaokuta Steel Company completion. 2• Mumbila Hydro-Electric Power Plant. 3• Dredging of River Niger and Light Weight Cargo Ports at Lokoja in Kogi, Kanji in Niger, Yauwuri & Dole kaina in Kebbi State. 4• Oil Exploration in Lake-chad of Borno, Bauchi, Benue and Sokoto State. 5• International Parashable Market at Mokwa in Kwara State. 6• Kaduna & Kano Dry Ports and Illela Border International Market. 7• Northern Mining Corporation Jos. 8• Adamawa and Taraba Ranch & Dairy Mechanised Farm. 9• Mining Industries in Nasarawa, Kebbi, Kaduna, Kogi, Plateau…
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Ibadan, August 14th, 1893. To: G. C. Denton, Acting Governor. Your Excellency, — We are not unmindful of all the kindness done to us by Her Majesty the Queen, nor are we unappreciative of it : and, in order to be frank we desire to state to you our fears in objecting to a Resident European which we trust Your Excellency will see to. First, we fear the authority and respect of the Bale and Chiefs will suffer deterioration, as there may be two courts of appeal. 2. We fear our slaves will assert their freedom by running to the…
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On May 22, an Islamic suicide bomber detonated himself outside a pop concert in Manchester, England, killing and wounding dozens, many of them young children. The terrorist was a 22-year-old named Salman Abedi. A few days after the attack, I was reading an article about the mosque he attended—the Didsbury Mosque. “That’s funny,” I thought looking at the accompanying photo, “that doesn’t look like a mosque, it looks like a church.” Sure enough, as I discovered, the Didsbury Mosque was once the Albert Park Methodist Chapel. It had been bought by the local Syrian Muslim community and transformed into a…
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The hatred between the Yoruba and Ndigbo has gone on for far too long. Let there be love shared among us! The Yorubas and the Igbos, two of the most resourceful, engaging and outgoing ethnic groups in Nigeria, are becoming implacable enemies. Increasingly, they seem to hate one another with pure hatred. I never appreciated the extent of their animosity until the social media came of age in Nigeria. Now, hardly a day passes that you will not find Yorubas and Igbos exchanging hateful words on internet blogs. The Nigerian civil war ended in 1970. Nevertheless, it continues to rage…
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On March 12, 2016, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed caused a stir while trying to justify President Muhammadu Buhari’s many foreign trips. He had declared that the economic situation in the country was completely out of the control of the government, as the crash in oil prices was having a negative spiral effect on it. He was later to deny the import of his statement saying, it was taken out of context by mischief-makers, even though the statement was a true reflection of the state of the economy – largely driven by the president’s outright mismanagement.…
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The Acting National Chairman of APGA, Chief Martin Agbaso, in the spirit of repositioning the party and building a united party that all will be proud of, has announced today, that a day for ward congresses in Anambra will be set after the National Working Committee meeting in Abuja next week.
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Fellow Nigerians, where do I start from? How do I even begin to quilt together the unfolding events and drama in this APC-led government for posterity? Things are happening at such dizzying speed that I can hardly keep pace. The fierce battle between the truth and falsehood appears to be coming to a decided end. For a while, the massive web of lies and half-truths seemed to prevail but as it’s usually the case, anything built on a lie never really lasts long. As it now appears all too obvious to some of the ardent supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari,…
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You see how they have laid out the corn, all spread across and the chickens are gradually coming home and soon they would roost. These people know their games, they are the master planners and executors and trust me they are winning. Osibanjo, if allowed to breathe cannot go beyond 2019 or he would pay with his dear life. My London sisters and brothers are lamenting that since Bubu went to meet them everything is upside down and I laughed and asked which Bubu? But the truth is, Buhari dead or alive is an anathema, the man wakes with badness.…
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I have often told those who care to listen to even define what they mean by restructuring and I can’t seem to get answers. Or where we get, the answers are discordant and often tending toward federalism resource control and such. What I understand it to mean is that we operate a truly federal system of government where every component part control their resources, have their domestic laws , have their own police, legal system, their own tax systems etc. The states should be federating units donating some of their powers to the FG to hold and use in trust…
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The Irish Ambassador to Nigeria, Sean Hoy, Saturday 11, made a presentation of three route maps of Calabar and other Niger Delta terrains in the defunct Biafra to the Director General of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, (NCMMs) Alhaji Yusuf Usman at the Commission’s head office in Abuja. This was contained in their twitter account @IrlEmbNigeria The maps were designed by the late Roger Casement who served as Consul General in Nigeria and were lithographed at the Intelligence Division War Office (IDWO) in 1894. Hoy said: “This year marks the centenary of the death of Roger Casement and…
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National Coordinator for the Movement for the Advancement of National Transformation (MANTRA), Jude Ndukwe, on Wednesday said President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war has graduated from being weak to wickedness. Ndukwe was reacting to the recent acquittal of Senate President Bukola Saraki by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). Delivering judgement on Wednesday, the chairman of the tribunal, Danladi Umar, assented to the no-case submission filed by the Senate President on May 26. The tribunal said the evidence submitted by the prosecution was not substantial enough to continue with the case. Ndukwe on Wednesday took to his Facebook page to condemn…
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The Nigeria problem is now like Knotted ball of rope. One has to carefully examine the knotted ball to know the strand one can pull without making the knot tighter. On examine the ball, I have identified some strands, which if pulled, will begin to unravel the knotted ball. The problem is unwillingness of those who must pull the strands to act. I looked at the most successful group of Nigerians, the corrupt political class, and saw the formula for the transformation of Nigeria. The have used it successfully and will stop at nothing to stop the silent and suffering…
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The attempt by the former national chairman of APGA , Ozo Victor Oye to overturn his sack and subsequent expulsion from the party today suffered a major shipwreck at the Enugu High Court presided over by Hon. Justice A.R Ozoemena with the case reassigned to another court following a petition sent to the NJC by the the leadership of the All Progressives Grand Alliance , APGA alleging the likelihood of bias by the judge and undue influence brought to bear on him by the Oye camp. Further to this development, APGA lodged an appeal at the Court of Appeal Enugu…
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When the Biafran war happened, Igbos were ill-prepared. Ojukwu’s blood was hot – an age factor. He failed to look into the future and how much Igbos would lose in that war. He took many Igbo young men and wasted them in different sectors of the war. And achieved nothing. In the end, he ran away to Cote d’Ivoire – with a WOMAN. And moved on. I am skeptical about the Biafran ideology. But I won’t be a party to bad strategy. The spirit warned Ojaadili, “Ojaadili, agbakwana chi gi mgba”. Don’t wrestle with your chi. I prefer to see…
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RELIGION: 2014 NC: The Conference recommended that there will be no government sponsorship of Christian and Muslim pilgrimages to the holy lands. It also resolved that churches and mosques should begin to pay tax to government. LAND TENURE ACT: 2014 NC: The Land Tenure Act should remain in the Constitution but be amended to take care of those concerns, particularly on compensation in Section 29 (4) of the Act to read “land owners should determine the price and value of their land based on open market value ANTI-CORRUPTION: 2014: A Special Courts to handle corruption cases should be established in…
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Joyce, who had insisted that Buhari was dead, has now challenged the Nigerian President to prove otherwise. Writing on his website, he said: “Nigeria has an extremely capable Acting President, of course, but if Mr Buhari is declared dead or permanently incapacitated, then it will be the second time in succession that a Northern Muslim President has died, and been replaced by his Southern Christian Deputy. This is a challenge in a country whose democracy is based upon a complex balance of different regional and religious interests. “However, it is a challenge Nigeria is most certainly up to given the…
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President Muhammadu Buhari was not allowed to see his wife during her recent visit to the United Kingdom, presidency sources informed SaharaReporters on Tuesday. In the stunning disclosure, the sources affirmed that the president has been kept away] from several of his aides and even those bodyguards who supposedly traveled with him. The President’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari who also frequents London to take care of himself, is still the manipulator-in-chief, according to the sources. Furthermore, SaharaReporters learned that Mr. Buhari has not spoken to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo for several weeks following his departure from Abuja for a…
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TEXT OF OPENING REMARKS MADE BY THE ACTING PRESIDENT YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, AT HIS MEETING WITH LEADERS OF THOUGHT FROM THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES HELD AT THE OLD BANQUET HALL, STATE HOUSE, ABUJA ONWEDNESDAY JUNE 14, 2017 “The reason why it cannot be tolerated is that the very many innocent men, women, children and the vulnerable amongst us deserves safety and security and our own emotions must not be allowed to run wild in such a way as to endanger the lives of so many”. Protocol Let me first say how deeply grateful I am that you have responded so well…
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Boko Haram is behind the Kaduna Declaration to expel Igbo People from Northern Nigeria says Intelicor, after the second quarter meeting ended in Paris yesterday. The Intel gurus said the reviewed eavesdropping information dubbed in February 2017, during exchanges between Boko Haram commanders and their operatives in the field ordering redeployment and integration into local community youth organizations instead of the mass redeployment to the South as Herdsmen as was earlier planned. This was due to severe disruption by effective Nigerian military operations. Those that did not redeploy were ordered to join youth groups in the Northern states. Further probe…
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By now you must have heard that a group of Northern Nigerian youths have issued an ultimatum to Ndi’Igbo resident in the North of Nigeria to quit the region in three months or face dire consequences. The President of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, handed down the ultimatum in company of his cohorts at a well attended conference the Arewa House, in Kaduna, on Tuesday June 6th, 2017. This same Alhaji Yerima Shettima is also one of the mischievous individuals who, in an interview with the Sun Newspapers on Saturday June 3rd, 2017, falsely accused the acting…
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The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Wednesday set aside the conviction of former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe by the Code of Conduct Tribunal. The CCT had on October 4, 2016 convicted Orubebe for failure to declare his property at Plot 2057, Asokoro District, Abuja, in any of his asset declaration forms he completed as minister. As punishment, the Danaladi Umar-led tribunal in its judgment, ordered that the property which the former minister failed to declare be forfeited to the Federal Government. But a three-man panel of the Court of Appeal held in its judgment on Wednesday…
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Fifty years after the civil war ended, Igbos do not yet feel a sense of belonging, acceptance or safety in the Federation called Nigeria. The sad part is that this belief is shared not just by the generation that witnessed the war and its deadly consequences, but Igbos across all generations, including the millennials who have been socialized into believing that there is a gap between their people and other Nigerians. Let us not deceive ourselves about certain plain truths. The civil war is perhaps the most remarkable incident in Igbo history in the last century. The pain, the loss,…
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When men stop thinking, they accept that there is justification for evil. When they are blinded by ethnic and religious bigotry, they see the good in the evil, which they and those they support perpetrate. They actually believe in the concept of just war, instead of bemoaning the necessity that compelled them to do a greater evil in the use war to fight evil. Such is the plasticity of the human mind, that ten people can see the same thing and come to ten different conclusions, or read the same book and come away with ten different understandings. If you…
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Those who have copies of the MNN Special Bulletin of May 2009, should go to page 6 and see the full page Advertorial extracted from Vanguard Newspapers of July 31, 2008, where the agglomeration of the Niger Delta Leading Sociocultural Organizations, (their own Ohanaeze equivalents including the Ijaw National Congress), under the aegis of the “CONFERENCE OF THE ETHNIC NATIONALITIES OF THE NIGER DELTA”, rejected the 1999 Constitution as basis of Nigeria, rejected amendments to it as cure as it was foisted by the Military, rejected the National Assembly as the authority to address the issues they were raising against…
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Human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) has hailed the acquittal of Senate President Bukola Saraki by the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Ozekhome also mocked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission which was the key witness against Saraki. The senior advocate also lampooned the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption headed by Prof. Itse Sagay. He said the ruling by the tribunal was evidence that the anti-corruption was nothing but a ruse to fool the feeble-minded. In a statement on Wednesday, Ozekhome said, “The Code of conduct tribunal headed by Mr Danladi Umar (not Justice Umar,as always erroneously reported ),was bold,courageous…
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Gentlemen of the press, as you are aware, today citizens of Anambra State from all walks of life, without regard to political, denominational or sectional persuasions, accompanied me in their numbers as I officially registered as a member of the United Progressives Party (UPP). This historic event marks the beginning of a journey that will lead to the realization of the long neglected yearnings and aspiration of Ndi Anambra for a vibrant, visionary and very innovative government that will urgently drive the reawakening of the God-bestowed creative impulse and ingenuity for which we are known all over the world. Our…
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The National Conference was set up by the regime of former President Goodluck Jonathan. The Senate on Thursday requested for the submission of the 2014 National Conference report for consideration by the Federal Goverment. The Senate’s decision was sequel to a motion sponsored by the Leader of Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, on the need for National Unity and Peaceful Co-existence in Nigeria. The National Conference was set up by the regime of former President Goodluck Jonathan. Jonathan had promised to implement the recommendations if he was re-elected. However, hos party, the Peoples Democratic Patty, was defeated by the All Progressives…
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I just read one of Femi Aribisala’s posts and it reminded me about what I told my students about a week ago that we need to apologise to the Igbos and pay at least $10 billion to them as a small reparation for unleashing death and destruction on them. We behaved like animals when we butchered them and starved them, including children to death! The merciless killings, added to the civil war, wiped away millions of Igbo souls. And since the civil war, they’ve been marginalised politically and in terms of infrastructure. As a Southern Kaduna person i perfectly understand…
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This Hausa man took a deep cut of his gworo and said to me, “Biafra will be landlocked, over populated, they will loose so much wealth and the separation will most likely be a war”.. I sipped my wine, because I knew he was on the cheapest fears and I said to him,”I have all the keys to those pad locks”.. First look at these.. Two scenarios.. A Biafra with the south south and another without the south south. Without the South South… How has a landlock stopped a nation from growing? In this era of Antonov An-225 Hercules planes…
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It is no longer news that some group of hausa/fulani Muslim Youths under the auspices of ‘Arewa Youth’, recently issued a 3 month notice to Igbos living and doing business in the North to leave or be visited with ethnic cleansing. The notice, they say, was premised on the May 30th successful Sit-At-Home observed by Igbos in honor of their Biafran fallen heroes. Just so we are clear, this writer has no plan of joining issues with some bunch of intellectually kwashiokored Quota System products masquerading as Arewa Youth. Not at all. The fact that the so called Arewa Youths…
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I’ve been paying attention to the ethnic composition of Nigerian criminal gangs with the corner of one eye. My non-scientific finding: our small criminal gangs are a mirror of the fratricidal ethnic divisions, hate, and bitterness among the small people. In other words, our small criminals replicate tribalism and the intense ethnic provincialism which clog the minds of people in the lower classes in Nigeria and prevent progress. Take a look at the composition of Evans’ criminal gang: everybody is Igbo. A few weeks ago in Toronto, the police were finally able to burst a notorious Nigerian criminal gang of…
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I had resisted the temptation of commenting on the dangerous trending of the Biafra discuss, currently clogging the social media and newspaper articles. It will be immortal for me to ignore or not to sound a note of caution in what could end up in a calamitous misadventure. But please Iet me crave your indulgence to just give my perspective of 21st Century Nation building and the lack of critical thinking that has been propelling some of our brothers who are agitating for Biafra. I have all the while resisted the temptation of getting dragged into an all comers posts…
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This was a reply to Dr Nicky Okoyes article. WHAT IS THIS CRY OF IGBO MARGINALIZATION ALL ABOUT? I don’t feel angry or frustrated, anytime I read any article or posts by a Yoruba or Hausa/Fulani person questioning what Ndi Igbo mean by these unending cry of marginalization in Nigeria . This is expected , because people that enjoy deliberately created advantages over their competition will always want it to remain so and will hardly give it up unless pressed to the wall . However, I get deeply perplexed, any time I read such queries from someone , who bear…
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So, a young man was given access to a microphone, on a radio station and then he started spreading a hate message which has resonated with a number of his fellow ethnic group. It makes you wonder, did the Igbo people have hate in their heart all along? Or was this young man responsible for digging deep into the consciousness of the Igbo people and unearthing deep rooted hate for their fellow human being which has been lying dormant there waiting for a special calling? In these times, many have refused to use their minds, their brains, their thinking faculty…
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Out of the total of 360 House of Reps members, the entire South has 169, while the North has 191. Here is the breakdown: South East Imo 10 Reps Abia 8 Reps Ebonyi 6 Reps Anambra 11 Reps Enugu 8 Reps Total= 43. South South Akwa Ibom 10 Reps Bayelsa 5 Reps Cross River 8 Reps Delta 10 Reps Edo 9 Reps Rivers 13 Reps Total= 55 Reps. SOUTHEAST & SOUTHSOUTH GRAND TOTAL = 98 only. South West Ekiti 6 Reps Lagos 24 Reps Ogun 9 Reps Ondo 9 Reps Oyo 14 Reps Osun 9 Reps Total = 71 Reps.…
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The leader of Biafra Independence Movement (BIM), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, on Tuesday, came under fire as he was berated by a number of groups and organisations for visiting Kaduna State to plead for One Nigeria shortly after the quit order given to Igbo in the North. Describing his action as ‘a show of shame’, the groups, which included Igbo Women Assembly (IWA), Eastern Consultative Assembly (ECA), Igbo Students Union (ISU), Igbo Traders Association (ITA) and South East Christian Network said by what Uwazuruike did is self destruction. In a statement, on Tuesday, endorsed by IWA leader, Mrs. Okwor said, “Uwazuruike’s…
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Protocols, I welcome you all to this Event marking a very important date in the annals of Nigerian history: JUNE 12. This day, June 12, of 1993, was a day the grammar and history of the politics of Nigeria would have been re-written; and Nigeria would have resumed on the right path to greatness. It was a day Nigerians from all parts of the diversity wholesomely subsumed ethnicity and religion and were united in their choice of a Leader. Unfortunately, the consummation of this was not to be, as retrogressive forces annulled the election of Chief M.K.O. Abiola as the…
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Preamble: Following from the recent quit notice issued to Ndigbo living in northern Nigeria by the confederate of Arewa Groups comprising Arewa Citizens Action for Change; Arewa Youth Consultative Forum; Arewa Youth Development Foundation, Arewa Students Forum, Northern Emancipation Network and the Northern Youth Vanguard, the Eastern Mandate Union convoked an emergency meeting last Friday, June 9, 2017 to review the state of the country and the events that culminated in the issuance of the quit notice. We have on numerous occasions pointed out that Nigeria is an aberration created by a colonial fiat to feed its insatiable economic appetite.…
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PRESS RELEASE The Honourable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami has opined that reforms and modifications of institutional arrangements, systems and processes are normal in federations, but that however, these cannot be achieved in single swoop as being advocated in Nigeria. The AGF revealed this position in his remarks to declare open a Think-Tank Conference on ‘Federalism and the Challenges of Dynamic Equilibrium in Nigeria: Towards a National Strategy’, organized on Tuesday by the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru , Jos, Plateau State. In a press statement made available to…
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Law -abiding staff of The Sun Publishing Limited resumed work this morning, June 12, 2017 to behold heavily armed EFCC operatives in our company. They claimed to have “orders from above” to seal up the premises of The Sun Publishing Limited. At gunpoint, they ordered our security personnel to take them round the company premises, after which they proceeded to prevent staff from either entering or leaving the premises, and disrupted our circulation process. For one gruelling hour, EFCC operatives subjected our staff to crude intimidation, psychological and emotional trauma, even as some of the men accused our organisation of…
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President General of Igbo apex socio-political body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, has hinged growing agitation of youths from the region across the country on what he called persistent injustice and ill-treatment of the South East and its people. He said such poor and bias treatment arose from the current warp structure and deliberate policy of neglect of the zone. Nwodo, a former minister of Information, spoke on a Channels Television talkshow where he contended that the various restiveness across the country was indication of an unworkable political system that should be revisited. The Ohanaeze boss decried what he…
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Some 230 years in Philadelphia, the American Founding Fathers had just ended the Constitutional Convention to ratify the US Constitution, a magnificent document just a little shy of 4600 words. The young country was expectant with hopes but concerned too about its future. Benjamin Franklin, the renowned inventor, diplomat, and elder statesman stepped out of the hall at the end of the ratification and was confronted by curious citizens. He was a delegate to the Convention. One of them, a lady, asked Benjamin Franklin, “what constitution do we have now, Sir?” Benjamin Franklin quipped, with a hint of sarcasm, “A…
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•North Central N209 Billion •North West. N73.7 Billion. •South West. N48.97 Billion. •North East. N46.69 Billion. •South South. N35.31 Billion. •South East. N28.22 Billion. This budgets breakdown is a true reflection of the President Buhari’s (97%|5%) Speech. But guess who signed it ❓
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The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has said If IPOB leaders tomorrow reverse their position and declare that they are now ready to remain in Nigeria and join the struggle for restructuring of the country, they will embrace them.This position of the group was made known by it National President, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, in an interview with Sun Newspaper. “We are equally optimistic that Kanu and his group would take a second look at what they are driving the Igbo into and quickly retrace their faltering steps”, he said when asked if with they were not committing a treasonable offence…
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Chief Security Officer to a former Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha has called on the Federal and Kaduna State governments to reverse direct order on promoters of controversial Kaduna Declaration by some groups of Northern youths. He said the northern youth groups even though were wrong with the declaration, should be pardoned because they were only responding to earlier threat issued the country by those agitating for sovereign state of Biafra quickly added that, time has come to bury the hatched and move on as a people. This was coming even as a leader of Movement…
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Because The Sun Newspaper published a report that exposed the fraudulent acquisition of a mansion in Abuja by Magu’s Wife, armed to teeth operatives of the EFCC stormed the head office of the news medium in Lagos and SHUT IT DOWN indefinitely. EFCC said their is an interim forfeiture order since 2007 that the property be confiscated to Abia State Government, a ruling the firm appealed against since and still pending till date. The case come up next week Monday for hearing. Magu had written a letter to the management of The Sun Newspaper, demanding for a retraction over the…
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We have already been regaled with reports provided by the Wikileaks which identified the US embassy in Nigeria as a forward operating base for wide and far reaching acts of subversion against Nigeria which include but not limited to eavesdropping on Nigerian government communication, financial espionage on leading Nigerians, support and funding of subversive groups and insurgents, sponsoring of divisive propaganda among the disparate groups of Nigeria and the use of visa blackmail to induce and coerce high ranking Nigerians into acting in favour of US interests. But beyond what we know from the Wikileaks report, what many Nigerians do…
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Let me start this piece by congratulating former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida on the marriage of his daughter, Halima, to her beau, Auwal Abdullahi. It goes without saying that the wedding would be the talk of Nigeria for aeons to come because of the kind of crowd it pulled. In case you missed the news, let me inform you that no fewer than thirty private jets landed at Minna airport last weekend on account of this wedding that locked down Nigeria! Thirty private jets. I do not even know what to exclaim! This is more than wow! Gosh does not…
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Governors of the South-East Governors have demanded adequate protection for the lives and properties people of Igbo extraction living in any part of the country and called on Northern leaders to speak against the divisive rhetoric being used by youths in the North. The governors made their position known in a statement signed by Mr. David Umahi, Chairman, South-East Governors’ Forum (SEGF). The statement, issued on Friday, was in response to the order given by a 16-member coalition of Northern youth groups that Igbo people living in the Northern part of the country should return to their home states by…
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Fula or Fulani or Fulbe (the latter being an Anglicization of the word in their language, Fule) are an ethnic group of people spread over many countries, predominantly in West Africa, but found also in Central Africa and The Sudan of east Africa. The countries in Africa where they are present include Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, The Gambia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Niger, Togo, the Central African Republic, Ghana, Liberia, and as far as Sudan in the east. Fulas are not a majority in every country they live, but in Guinea…
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For sometime now, social media appear deeply buried in an argument between Nigerians of Igbo extraction who want Biafra and other Nigerians who prefer a well restructured country. The former appear convinced that the resurrection of the Restructuring campaign is an attempt to weaken the resolve and unionism of the Biafran agitation while the latter seem to believe the Biafran quest is too extreme and should be replaced with the demand for restructuring which they argue, is more feasible. It is my view that the whole argument is one hell of a beautiful nonsense, a misplaced priority and monumental distraction,…
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Dear Delegates, Please find, in the preceding pages, Our Final Submission to the National Conference Committee. The Secretariat worked tirelessly, to harmonize the many views, opinions and submissions made by patriotic delegates, Igbo groups and individuals. Despite the unforeseen handicaps we encountered in the preparation of this document, ranging from, limited availability of scholarly materials, to time constraint and finance; we utilized all techniques within our reach to accommodate the views of almost all members, individuals and groups and covered as may areas that will present the position of the South East and Ndigbo in such passionate, compelling and strong…
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The whole world is now watching and listening closely to know the important plea for independence which is coming out of Western Africa. Nigeria has a population of roughly 180 million people with a balanced religious mix of roughly 49.3% Christian and 48.8% Muslim. We know most of the Christians live in southern Nigeria, a land previously controlled for over thousands of years by a people living in a land known as Biafra. Biafrans were a proud people. They were mostly Christian and a bastion of free-enterprise in Western Africa. With the formation of Nigeria in the breakup of Great…
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Sharia is observed in twelve of Nigeria’s thirty-six states. Why should a section of country adopt a different law from others? “The Nigerian constitution stipulates that we are Nigerians first and then Muslims (or Christians) second. However, some fanatic northern Nigerian elected officials are insisting that Muslims are Muslims first and Nigerians second and, therefore, are entitled to live by the sharia Islamic law. The contradiction is these elected officials were elected through a secular constitution that is the supreme legal document of the land. Each official swore to uphold the constitution. After being elected, some Muslim officials now want…
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After reviewing the President Muhammadu Buhari administration in the last two years, a former Senate Majority Whip and chieftain of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Kanti Bello, has said the North will not vote for the president if presented by the party in 2019 presidential election. Bello, who represented Katsina North Senatorial District, told Sunday Tribune in an interview that he had nothing personal against Buhari, but saidthe president had disappointed the masses who reposed confidence in his ability to revamp the economy. He disclosed that the North would shop for a presidential candidate that would not be…
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Former militant leader, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, believes Igbos and other ethnic groups can achieve their Biafra dream earlier than expected. “Every one of us anywhere in the world, today, people are celebrating Trump but what diplomatic effort are we making that will direct Trump to continue the course of the Independent State of Biafra? Or are we just making noise on social media, are just making noise?” he queried in a recent interview with DailyPost. “We must do the diplomatic street walk. We must be demonstrating it in the United States of America, Asia, Europe, everywhere. “We must keep the…
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All your governors, Senators, HOR Members etc since 1999 have been turning out as multi-billionaires few months/years after being elected into Public Offices by you and still you see nothing wrong at home and feel very comfortable blaming Hausa Fulani for your home grown idiocy! Please remind us of the name of that Development Commission Shagari dashed the South East Region between 1979 to 1983 which helped Late Chief Sam Mbakwe PhD. achieve feats in Old Imo State that no other Southeast Governor has achieved till date in! Take Note: Mbakwe established many legacy projects including Amaraku Independent Power Plant,…
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Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the Ohanaeze, Chuks Ibegbu said that the group believes more in a restructured Nigeria; a Nigeria that has a level playing field for all sections of the country; a Nigeria that gives each part of the country a sense of belonging. Ibegbu said: “For example, in a country of 36 states, the South-East has five states and 95 local governments; while Kano State alone has 44 local governments. The other time, we saw the statistics of recruitment in the Department of State Services with Katsina State alone having 51 allocations. Yet, we have the Federal…
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The false claim by Prof Ango Abdullahi that the north sustained the entire Nigerian state from 1914 up to 1974 is unacceptable, malicious, deliberate. Southern Protectorate, Southern Nigeria And Or Niger Delta Have Always Sustained Herself Without Depending On The North For Any Economic Assistance, From Time Immemorial. Verifiable Sources of Records with Facts and Figures Part 1 (Pre-amalgamation Era Records, from 1900 – 1913) It is a fact that Southern Nigeria was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria formed in 1900 from the union of the Niger Coast Protectorate (NCP) with territories chartered by the…
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Igbo must leave the north is a decoy; the real target is the impending Yoruba presidency- Now, let’s explain it out. The whole idea is to cause a civil crisis by chasing the Igbo’s around in inner northern communities, this will then lure the military in, to carry out a coup, and end the osinbajo nightmare. The northerners have recently lost all their strategic allies (middle belt, Niger delta and Yoruba, due to their serial abuse) and Yoruba are poised to, and will constitutionally take Over from a sick and incapacitated Buhari. They need a civil crisis to bring in…
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The O’odua Nationalist Coalition,(ONAC) has called on Yoruba people to prepare for their own sovereign nation in the face of the lingering problems and conflict built around the national question that has stunted the growth of Nigeria for over a century. This conflict has again reared its head, 50 years after a civil war that inflicted pain and misery on the Yoruba people apart from distorting the development plan of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo for the South West. ONAC is made up of 18 Pan Yoruba groups including the Oodua Peoples Congress, (OPC), Oodua Liberation Movement, (OLM), Oodua Republic Coalition, (ORC),…
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will not return home from medical leave in Britain at the weekend, presidency sources said on Saturday, having previously told Reuters the ailing leader would be returning by then. Buhari’s doctors said they will need to carry out testing on him on Monday, and the test results will determine when he returns to Nigeria, the sources said. The president’s undisclosed ailment has left his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo, in charge. While the vice president has been praised for his activity in Buhari’s absence, pressure has been mounting on the government to sign off on key decisions such…
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After years of difficult discussions with various Self-Determination Agitation Groups in Eastern Nigeria on how best to purse the resolution of the Constitutional Grievances of Eastern Nigeria, the Lower Niger Congress welcomes the recent Public Pronouncements of both the MASSOB and IPOB announcing the adoption of the LNC Referendum Template cum Roadmap, in place of the various other methods previously deployed in their pursuits. For the LNC, there is only one Project, namely, to deliver Independence to greater Eastern Nigeria as defined by the 1885 Ethnolinguistic Map of the Territory which consists of the combined Eastern and Midwestern Regions as…
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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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The Deputy Leader of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Elder Paul Unongo has said that Professor Ango Abdullahi is on his own in backing ignorant youths. Prof Ango Abdullahi Unongo said Northern Elders Forum could not have adopted position of ignorant youths, who were not there when Nigeria lost three million of its citizens to the civil war they fought for keep the country as one united nation. According to Unongo, “I am the Deputy Leader of the Northern Elders Forum and Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Sule is the leader. So, only the two of us can speak for the forum…
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Dear Northern Elders, I was shocked to read your communiqué approving the illegal Quit Notice from Northern land . You have now complicated matters – when children misbehave their adult parents don’t join, they plead with the youth to be calm. The civil war was fought long before the Rwandan genocide yet in Rwanda the scars of that war long disappeared thanks to the principles of inclusivity; here in Nigeria the South East complains of being short changed and want exit, a good father would look into their complaint rather what we saw was further marginalization. They have no place…
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Niger Delta militants have issued an October 1 ultimatum for northerners to leave their region, in response to the quit notice given to the Igbo by some Arewa youth groups. The militants also said the federal government should hand over all oil blocs controlled by northerners to the people of Niger Delta. In a joint statement released on Friday, the coalition of Niger Delta militants also said they will declare the independence of the region on October 1. A communiqué was signed to this effect by ‘General’ John Duku (Niger Delta Watchdogs and Convener: Coalition of Niger Delta Agitators), ‘General’…
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The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that given what the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari inherited, restructuring the country could not have been its priority. The minister said this on Thursday when he featured on “Focus Nigeria” current affairs Programme of African Independent Television (AIT), anchored by Gbenga Aruleba. Mr. Mohammed said with the high level of corruption, economic downturn, insecurity, particularly with the activities of Boko Haram, which had taken over half of the North East, the government could not have contemplated restructuring. He said the focus of the government which also formed the basis…
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This is a reproduction of an interview Chief Awolowo granted while on a campaign trail preceding the 1983 presidential election. Introduction. At the age of 11, he struggled through primary school here at Wesleyan School Imo, Abeokuta. He then became a teacher, he was a trader, he was a school clerk, he was a stenographer, he was a transporter, he was a produce buyer, a unionist, name it, he has experienced it all. He even knows the problems of the police, the warders and the prisoners, because he was there. When he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in 1963,…
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Following the October 1 ultimatum issued by Arewa Youths Forum to the people of South-East origin living in the northern parts of the country to leave the region, the apex Yoruba socio-cultural organisation , Afenifere, has called on all Southerners resident there to start returning home. Rising from an emergency meeting held by the group to discuss the state of the nation in Lagos on Thursday, Afenifere said all Southerners should see the quit notice not as meant for Igbo people alone, but the rest of their counterparts from the region. Afenifere chieftain, Senator Femi Okurounmu who was present at the…
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For those , who are agitated and worried concerning what may become of the new Biafra when it happens because of the antics of certain overzealous IPOB foot soldiers, please relax . There is no cause for alarm. Kindly note that the struggle for the emancipation of Ndi Igbo is way beyond Nnamdi Kanu’s radio Biafra rhetoric. Nnamdi Kanu is neither the face of Biafra or the bearer of the Biafran Ideology. This is a struggle that is over 50 years old. Nnamdi Kanu is not up to 50 years. A strange combination of time, chance and circumstances, aided by…
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Press Statement 8/6/2017 SOKAPU Disassociates Itself From the Reckless Kaduna Declaration. On June 6, 2017, a coalition of groups describing themselves as “Northern Youths” came together and issued what they called ‘The Kaduna Declaration’. They issued a three-month ultimatum to all Igbos to leave the north while asking all northerners to also leave the South-East. The coalition served the Igbos its intention to “reclaim, assume and assert sole ownership and control of … landed” properties and assets owned by Igbos in Northern Nigeria. Interestingly and by implication, the group claimed to be speaking for the 19 Northern States of Nigeria.…
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AHEAD of the governorship election in Imo State in 2019, crisis has reared up in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the people of Owerri Zone have renewed their call to be allowed to produce the governorship of the state. It is the claim of the zone that they have been marginalized in the governorship of the state since its creation. Shooting the first salvo, former member of the House of Representatives for Owerri Federal Constituency, Hon Uche Onyeagucha, who also served as Senior Special Adviser to the Governor on Political Strategy, resigned his appointment as the Coordinator of…
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Facts have emerged as to how the Federal Government allocated the first tranche of N516.38bn reimbursement made to the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory from the Paris Club debt refund. Based on the schedule of reimbursement which was released by the Federal Ministry of Finance on Friday in Abuja, five states got the highest amount of refund from the Federal Government. The states are Rivers N34.92bn, Delta N27.6bn, Akwa Ibom N25.98bn, Bayelsa N24.89bn and Kano N21.7bn. Analysis of the payment schedule showed that these five states got a total sum of N135.09bn representing 26.1 per…
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“A coalition of the Niger Delta militants met today in Port Harcourt to review the recent call by the Arewa Youths groups that the Ndigbo should vacate all the Northern states within three months. “We see the declaration by Arewa Youths as a well consultative declaration which the northern elders, leaders, political elite, security heads from the North and governors were fully aware. “We demand 100 percent control of our resources. We demand that the Federal Government should hand over all oil blocs owned by the northerners to Niger Delta indigenes. All the companies operating in such oil blocks/wells should…
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Pro-Biafra agitators have hinted that they might adopt a new referendum template on self-determination to be supervised by the United Nations (UN). The Guardian leant that the move would see the various groups fusing to become an independent coalition platform before approaching the UN. A statement yesterday by the IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Nmezu and Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya, said the template of the Lower Niger Congress (LNC) might be adopted. This new move was first implied when IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu adopted the template on February 28, 2017 at a meeting with Nzuko Umunna at the Kuje Prisons, Abuja. He…
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Below is the breakdown of the $6.9billion Paris Club Refund to 36 States, FCT Follow-up on your governor to ensured Proper utilization of this fund. 1. Abia – $151, 410, 816.39 2. Adamawa – $161, 968, 221.27 3. Akwa Ibom – $344, 122,584.90 4. Anambra – $162, 163, 091.98 5. Bauchi – $182, 192, 756.59 6. Bayelsa – $329, 744, 322.49 7. Benue – $81, 580, 708.60 8. Borno – $194, 461, 850.74 9. Cross River – $160, 936, 263.51 10. Delta – $365, 655, 143.86 11. Ebonyi – $119, 419,427.28 12. Edo – $161, 354, 346, .83 13. Ekiti…
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In 2003 , APGA won massively in Imo state, in 2007, that winning ways was massively replicated . In 2011, APGA made another landslide. But in 2015, when some elements were smuggled into the leadership of APGA in Imo state, the party recorded a disgraceful outing, with void votes higher than the votes cast for APGA. We want to return APGA back to its winning ways and Nationwide this time . The APGA National Chairman Chief Martin Agbaso is on a mission to re-position APGA and guarantee massive victory in Nov 2017 Anambra election and beyond.
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An elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, has said the quit notice served to Ndigbo by northern youths and the refutation of grazing right to Fulani herders are unconstitutional. Yakasai said this while reacting to the ultimatum given to the Igbos by some Northern youths. He said, “The quit notice to Igbos by some people in the north and the purported denial of grazing right to Fulani herders in the south are against human rights provisions of the Nigerian constitution, which guaranteed freedom of movement to all Nigerians.” In an interview with Daily Trust, Yakasai described the denial of Fulani herders…
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