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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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When it comes to Nigerian politics, I give it to the north. So far they have outsmarted east, west and south. Today they dominate the judiciary. Military, Federal civil service, customs and exercise and the police. The have achieved this by applying a very old principle of ensuring that your best compete with the worst of your opponent. It is a principle the British perfected in their empire years. Take for instance the current leadership. The north have assembled people who care only about the north and Islam and helped Igbos who have no courage to stand up for the…
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RECONCILIATION RECONSTRUCTION REHABILITATION: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED Post hoc analyses pose fairly peculiar methodological challenges. Quite apart from running into the fallacy of imputing causal relationships to temporary sequences, they also face the risk of interpreting past events from the lenses of present realities which are quite often different. For this reason, it is probably best to interrogate decisions, relationships, outcomes and effects of past events within the context of their existence. With regards to our present concern – the Nigerian civil war in general and issues of post-war reconstruction, rehabilitation and reconciliation in particular – there are obvious paradigmatic…
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The 16th American President, Abraham Lincoln, once said “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.” This is an all-time elder statesman speech, position, disposition, and mindset; a mark of eldership. Our Igbo grandparents would similarly say that an elder does not stay at home while a she-goat delivers on peg. This sort…
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1. The attention of the South East Governors Forum has been drawn to the widely publicised ultimatum, credited to a coalition of 16 northern youth associations or groups, demanding that Nd’Igbo resident in Northern Nigeria should vacate the region within 90 days or before the 1st day of October, 2017; and equally urging northerners resident in Igboland to return to the North within the same time spectrum. 2. Typical of our preferred modus operandi, we have carefully considered the contents of the highly provocative statement and reflected on its implications for Nd’Igbo specifically, and for the status of the Federal…
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The United Nations has called on different ethnic tribes and groups in Nigeria to be more tolerant to ensure unity and peace in the country. The UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, said this in a statement Thursday. Kallon noted with concern media reports of an ultimatum issued by northern youth groups calling for all Igbo people to leave Northern Nigeria by October 1. He noted the ultimatum followed a sit-down-strike observed in the five states in South East Nigeria on May 30, purportedly meant to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Biafra. “We have to work together to resolve…
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To every event, there is a season. A season of love and a season of hate. A season of tolerance and a season of intolerance. A season to integrate and a season for disintegration. For the Nigerian concoction, the later seasons have come. The seasons of hate, intolerance and disintegration. Like in Chinue Achebe’s ‘Things Fall Apart’, an anarchy has been loosed upon the concoction and the center can no longer hold. I just finished reading a press release made by a certain Niger Delta Regional body, as updated on Nnamdi Ukasanya’s wall, giving the Northern Oil block owners of…
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The Senate on Thursday passed a bill scrapping the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) and replacing it with Federal Roads Authority. The bill, sponsored by Kabiru Gaya (Kano-APC), was read the third time at plenary before it was passed through a unanimous vote by the senators. The Senate, however, rejected the report on National Road Funds, stepping it down for further legislative action. The proposed Road Funds Bill has generated controversy over alleged plans to introduce additional N5 fuel levy as one of the major sources of financing the fund. Speaking in favour of the bill, Mr. Gaya explained that…
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There is tension on the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway, which links Kaduna and Niger states to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, as robbers and kidnappers attack motorists, especially in the evenings. It was learnt that the assailants, who wield guns and cutlasses, mount roadblocks in at least two of the seven areas along the expressway, which are Tafa, Jere, Idah, Kateri, Gidan Bussa, Akilibu, Doka and Rijanna communities. It was gathered that the robbers and kidnappers also set fire to woods, putting nails on them to stop motorists. Some of the motorists, who spoke on the matter, alleged that police presence was…
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Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that given what the Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari inherited, restructuring could not have been its priority. The Minister stated this on Thursday when he featured on “Focus Nigeria” current affairs Programme of African Independent Television (AIT), anchored by Gbenga Aruleba. Mohammed explained that with the high level of corruption, economy 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 of its…
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Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that given what the Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari inherited, restructuring could not have been its priority. The Minister stated this on Thursday when he featured on “Focus Nigeria” current affairs Programme of African Independent Television (AIT), anchored by Gbenga Aruleba. Mohammed explained that with the high level of corruption, economy 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 of its…
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Aka Ikenga, a think tank of Igbo professionals, has noted the unguarded “ Kaduna Declaration” by the so called coalition of Northern youths calling on a significant section of Nigeria to quit their places of residence in a certain part of the country. We believe that they are sponsored agents provocateur intent on sparking conflagration against an innocent group of Nigerians pursuing their rights of residency and to own property, as provided for in the 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended). Reactions have come from various law abiding and patriotic Nigerians condemning the rascality and unconstitutionality of…
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RECONCILIATION RECONSTRUCTION & REHABILITATION: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED PROFESSOR EGHOSA OSAGHAE, LESSONS LEARNED Post hoc analyses pose fairly peculiar methodological challenges. Quite apart from running into the fallacy of imputing causal relationships to temporary sequences, they also face the risk of interpreting past events from the lenses of present realities which are quite often different. For this reason, it is probably best to interrogate decisions, relationships, outcomes and effects of past events within the context of their existence. With regards to our present concern – the Nigerian civil war in general and issues of post-war reconstruction, rehabilitation and reconciliation in…
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Former External Affairs Minister, Bolaji Akinyemi, said on Thursday that the recent admission of Morocco into ECOWAS was meant to whittle down Nigeria’s influence in the sub-regional body, and by extension, the world. “Having failed to find any rational benefit to ECOWAS by expanding membership to Morocco, I can only conclude that the move is to whittle down Nigeria’s influence in ECOWAS. “And by extension, in the world, as Nigeria’s status as a regional power is facilitated by its role in ECOWAS. “Nigeria has only one option. Let the West African Heads of State and presidents drop this whole issue…
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I read an interesting Facebook broadcast by a friend of mine, Ray Morphy Ugba, the morning just before coming to the office to write this article. Ray is a journalist, politician, blogger and (from what I saw after the broadcast) also a musician. He hails from Cross River State, though he seems quite proud of the fact that his mother is an Igbo woman, which is why he calls Igbos “my mother’s people”. Ray referred to a recent controversial statement credited to the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on a visit to Badagry, where he said Lagos was not a…
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Did you know that southern Nigerians living in kano were killed by northerners for struggling for independence. It happened in 1953. They were attacked and killed by northerners opposed to independence after Anthony Enahoro called for independence in the Parliament in Lagos. Did you know that Africa’s first genocide was perpetrated by northerners in Nigeria. This genocide preceded that of Rwanda and was the first time in Africa a government, military, police, political, traditional institutions and civilians combined undertook the massacre of another ethnic group. This infamy happened between 1966 and 1967 in northern Nigeria/ continued through the war and…
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A coalition of Igbo groups, the Eastern Consultative Assembly, on Thursday, said Igbos should be allowed to secede in peace, if Nigeria was not restructured ‘immediately’. The coalition, comprising professional bodies, youth, student and Christian organisations, town unions, traders and women groups, among others, made the demand in a communique issued after a meeting in Enugu. The meeting was prompted by the three-month ultimatum given to Igbos to leave the North. In the communique signed by the Deputy Leader, Chief Mrs Maria Okwor, and the Publicity Secretary, Rev. Fr. John Odey, the Eastern Consultative Assembly insisted that Nigeria ‘must restructure…
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The Igbo Factor and the Reasonable Limits of Retribution. The Igbo people of Nigeria have made a mark in the history of this nation. They led the first successful military coup which eliminated the Military and Political leaders of other regions while letting off Igbo leaders. Nwafor Orizu, then Senate President, in consultation with President Azikiwe, subverted the constitution and handed over power to Aguiyi-Ironsi. Subsequent developments, including attempts at humiliating other peoples, led to the counter-coup and later the civil war. The Igbos themselves must acknowledge that they have a large part of the blame for shattering the unity…
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It is the temptation of war to punish, the task of policy to construct. Power may sit in judgment, but statesmen must look to the future. —Henry Kissinger, former United States Secretary of State Nation-building is hard, but it need not be as difficult as we make it in Nigeria. Nation-building is also intentional. It doesn’t happen by accident. The real test is in the leadership and the actions that create a real spirit of nationhood, and the willingness of every stakeholder to build a united, stable and cohesive nation. Fifty years after Biafra, we are confronted with the imperative…
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The Directorate of State (DOS) of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is glad to announce that it has adopted the Referendum Template of the Lower Niger Congress (LNC). As one of the pro-Biafra organizations, IPOB wishes to state that the LNC Referendum Template is the surest way to guarantee a non-violent and transparent strategy for the nation of Biafra to get out of the British-created contraption called Nigeria. The LNC Template basically consists of a two-pronged process of countrywide de-legitimization and repudiation of the fraudulent Nigerian Constitution leading to the dismantling of the present pseudo-federation and the willful aggregation…
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Ethnic and religious bigotry are Arewa’s fatal challenges. With the forces of balkanisation screaming louder, are we learning any lessons? How do we face uncertainty if we are divided against ourselves? We have been fighting ourselves like Kilkenny Cats on account of ethnic and religious intolerance. As a result, our unity is now bound by a rope of sand! If you accused Obasanjo and Jonathan of exploiting the weaknesses of a divided North for political advantages, shouldn’t we blame ourselves instead for creating that opportunity? The politicians have done more damage to our unity than you can readily admit. The…
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Governors of the nineteen northern states on Wednesday disowned a coalition of Arewa groups, who issued an ultimatum to Igbos to vacate the northern part of Nigeria within three months or be forced to leave. The Borno State Governor and Chairman of the Northern States Governors Forum, Kashim Shettima, spoke on behalf of his colleagues in Maiduguri on Wednesday evening. The governors said they are in touch with heads of their security agencies and have taken measures that will guarantee the rights of all Nigerians to live in the 19 states in the three geo-political zones within the north. The…
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A former governor of Anambra State, Okwadike Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has said the FG to ensure that every necessary action for restructuring, including referendum, should be concluded by mid-2018. Ezeife, who stated this in Abuja at the yearly public education organised by the Save Democracy Group, said people that mean well for the country should call on the Federal Government to put in place the mechanism for restructuring Nigeria. He further said the government should ensure that every necessary action for restructuring, including referendum, should be concluded by mid-2018, adding: “People who wish Africa well and believe in one Nigeria should…
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Governor Nasir El Rufai has directed the Nigeria Police Force to immediately arrest all signatories to the so called Kaduna declaration, giving a three month ultimatum to the Igbo leave the northern part of the country. Similarly, the governor has equally directed his Attorney General and commissioner for Justice to prepare charges of incitement against leaders of the group. Addressing a press conference in Kaduna Wednesday, the governor said Kaduna state has no room for anybody that will try to incite one section of the country against the other. A coalition of Northern groups yesterday issued a three month notice…
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The South East/South South network, SESSNet, on Wednesday asked Security agencies to immediately swing to action and arrest leadership of Northern groups over statement credited them that all Igbo residents in the north should vacate the region. This was stated in statement made available to Journalists via email as a result of threats against Igbo lives and property by the Northern groups. The group said that the threat by these coalition groups in the North was evidently as a result of the Unity displayed by the Igbo in the South-east and the South-south to obey a “sit at home order”…
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I have patiently watched what the reactions and reading of the Quit Notice to the Igbo in the North, issued yesterday by the Coalition of “Northern Youth” Organizations in their so-called Kaduna Declaration, it is clear that the carefully choreographed sabre rattling and trademark brinkmanship of the hawks of the North. From the East, apart from MASSOB that seems to have read the situation correctly, it is clear that many are taken in by the shallow game being played by the distressed Northern hawks, acting through their so-called “Northern Youths” some of whose grandchildren are in high school. The contents…
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I walked down the street in Barcelona , and suddenly discovered a terrible truth – Europe died in Auschwitz … We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world. The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all,as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned. And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to…
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The Kaduna State Government condemns in the strongest terms the press statement by some self-appointed “northern youths” that threatened the safety and property of our citizens of Igbo extraction. Government assures every resident of our state that their constitutional and human rights to live peacefully and own property wherever they choose is sacrosanct. Even people who may feel unhappy about irresponsible comments or actions that have taken place in other states must know that two wrongs cannot make a right. The Kaduna State Government believes in and will uphold the right of every Nigerian to live safely and develop his/her…
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Please what do we really want? By we, I mean the people of the South South. There is no doubt that the Nigerian state has conveniently cornered our nature’s given resources and in order to keep same permanently she has subjugated us and to ensure we don’t question this anomaly, merit was discarded as a way of accessing public offices . For me, we have more to fight for than our closest neighbours, the Biafrans. But we seem to be content with just vandalizing a few unprotected pipelines, get a few stipend as amnesty and we are happy again. If…
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Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has appealed to acting President Yemi Osinbajo to call the leadership of the Miyetti Allah to order for making inciting statements about signing into law, the anti-open grazing bill in the state. Ortom made the appeal last Monday while briefing journalists on the outcome of the State Security Council meeting held at the Benue Peoples House,Makurdi. He explained that the decision to draw attention of the Acting President to Miyetti Allah’s recent negative comments about the anti-grazing law has become necessary because the leadership of the association had issued threats even claiming that the…
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Since President Muhammadu Buhari left Nigeria to continue his medical tourism (nobody should blame me for calling it medical tourism. That was exactly what the APC called it during their campaigns in the run up to the 2015 elections) in London on May 7, 2017, there is an unarguable return of sanity of some sorts to the country. It was one of America’s greatest presidents and renowned world leader, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who said, “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” We can safely say that ever since the president’s…
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When the Jewish prophet, Micah (740-670 BC) declared that, “A man’s enemies are the men of his own household,” Micah 7:6, he foresaw what would be the greatest undoing of any man, which are the people around him. If you are not ruined by those around you whom you trust much, you will live long. Those far away from you, who don’t know your secrets, can hardly harm you. The enemy is there with you, they are those closest to you. It is in the same vein that the greatest man that ever lived, Jesus Christ, also declared that, “If…
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The Senate yesterday raised alarm that an unnamed cartel has taken over control of commercial banks in Nigeria, to the detriment of the economy and small businesses operating in the country. The Senate also accused the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and commercial banks of killing the Small and Medium Enterprises, SMEs, with high interest rate, adding that indicators have shown that only about 3% of SMEs starting up in th country had access to credits from banks, despite employing about 88% of the nation’s work force. Consequently, the Senate mandated its Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions…
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DATE: 7TH JUNE, 2017 We wish to express our profound gratitude to God for keeping us alive today. Middle Belt Youth Council is extremely concerned about the ongoing regional tension in Nigeria today and we want to make our position clear to the world. In the light of incessant threats to one Nigeria posed by killer-herdsmen, we want to call on good people of Middle Belt to first of all, *support the Anti-grazing Bill.* Grazing by Fulani herdsmen on our land has become the major cause of conflicts in our region therefore, we’re calling for total ban on open grazing…
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Amnesty International has confirmed that the US Army gave ISIS $1 billion worth of arms and equipment in Iraq during President Obama’s final year in office, according to a report. The data was obtained by the human rights group following a freedom of information request for a 2016 government audit. “This audit provides a worrying insight into the US Army’s flawed — and potentially dangerous system for controlling millions of dollars’ worth of arms transfers to a hugely volatile region,” Patrick Wilcken, Amnesty’s researcher on international arms control, said in a statement. “It makes for especially sobering reading given the…
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Judiciary as an arm of government is constitutionally designed to be independent. This over the years has given even opposition parties the opportunity to win cases against the government in power. In a functional democracy, Judiciary is meant to be for the opposition, the government in power and the masses. Countries like United States of America have proven that the Judiciary should be independent and not an offshoot of the executive. This they have demonstrated in recent cases against Donald Trump in the United States. Unfortunately in Nigeria, a certain group of persons in the Executive arm have continued to…
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World over, the development of any nation lies considerably on the shoulders of its intelligentsia. They are regarded as the gate-keepers of the cathedral of knowledge, the very conscience of the nation and the moral compass of the people. Politicians rule but only with the noble ideas and wise counsel of the intellectuals. Sadly, in Nigeria, one “good thing” we can easily attribute to the Buhari presidency is that it has clearly exposed most of these so called intellectuals, religious leaders, human right activists, civil society groups and labour unions as nothing short of a congregation of intellectually fraudulent morally…
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This clash between Britain’s allies in the so-called war on terror matters. If Corbyn is prime minister on Friday, there will be a break with the appeasement of jihadi-funding autocrats Great. Just what we need. Our self-styled key ally in the so-called war on terror – Saudi Arabia – just closed the airspace, land and sea borders with our other ally, Qatar, accusing it of supporting Isis. What’s that about? Well, like almost everything in the region, it is about the strategic duplicity of the West, exacerbated by the childlike idiocy of the US president. Does it matter for Brits…
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It is time for an honest conversation about Wahhabism, specifically the part this Saudi-sponsored ideology plays in radicalizing young Muslims both across the Arab and Muslim world and in the West, where in the UK people are dealing with the aftermath of yet another terrorist attack in which innocent civilians were butchered and injured, this time in London. The US, British and French governments can no longer credibly claim to be serious about fighting terrorism or religious extremism while cosying up to what is a medieval kleptocracy in Riyadh. Just days prior to the attack in London it was reported…
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How is it going, my brother? ” “We just dey look. Two years and we thank God.” “How was your May 29?” “There was no celebration. We just siddon dey look.” “But the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo addressed the nation.” “I know. I know. But there was no programme in place for celebrating two years of the Buhari government. In the past, we used to have a week-long programme, with military parades, prayers here and there and then a national broadcast to remind the people of how democratic rule has been so fruitful and kind.” “There was a national broadcast”…
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A former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has warned that the Nigerian economy will collapse soon if the federal government does not take immediate steps to arrest the rot in the system. He also accused the government of not doing enough to alleviate the sufferings of the people even as he decried the high level of hunger and poverty that Nigerians are passing through. Mr. Obi gave the warning in an address at the Federal University, Ndufu Alike Ikwo (FUNAI) during the grand-finale and presentation of awards to winners of a creative writing competition. The event was organised by…
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Former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr Doyin Okupe, has faulted the silence of the Presidency over the success of the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Okupe noted that the Presidency should be worried that IPOB leader, Nnamdi kanu came from nowhere, declared the sit-at-home order and it was complied with across the South East. In a statement he signed, the former Presidential aide wondered why the Presidency pretended as if nothing happened during the recent sit-at-home protest by IPOB. The statement reads, “A young man, from virtually nowhere, issues a…
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A new grand plan by an Aso Rock cabal led by the Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, to weaken the constitutional authority of Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has taken off at the presidential palace in Abuja, with a meeting held in London last week. The new scheme comes after an earlier attempt to hijack Mr. Osinbajo’s constitutional authority failed, authoritative sources told SaharaReporters. The sources revealed that the cabal had the surreptitious meeting a few days ago in London at which a handful of disgruntled presidential aides were in attendance, but without the knowledge of the ailing President Muhammadu Buhari,…
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The South East / South South network on Tuesday demanded the immediate re-consideration of the South East Development Commission Bill (SEDC) for the sake equity in Nigeria. The group in statement made available to our correspondent also commended the residents in the South-East and South-South States for observing “sit at home order” marking the 50 years anniversary of Biafra war in which over 3 million people were killed and $50 billion dollars worth property and investment were destroyed by Nigeria government. The group noted that up till now the destroyed infrastructure in Igboland has not been rehabilitated by the Nigeria…
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Reports has it that Nigeria was intentionally absent from the 51st ECOWAS Summit of Heads of State and Government held in Liberia’s capital Monrovia. The two day summit, which started on Saturday, was attended by Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. He will be the first non-African leader to ever address an ECOWAS Summit and also the first Israeli leader to visit West Africa since the 1960s. An attempt by national news portal, Daily Trust, to get details of Nigeria’s decision not to attend the summit which was fruitless. When contacted, the spokesperson, Ministry of Foreign Affair, Clement Aduku, he confirmed…
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Prominent Northern youth organisations, on Tuesday, rose from a joint meeting called ‘Kaduna Declaration’ to issue a serious threat to the Igbo residing in the region urging them to begin making arrangements to relocate out of the North. The groups gave the Igbo up till October 1, this year to leave the region. Their declaration was premised on the shut-down of major towns in the south eastern part of the country on May 30, by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and their sponsors. These Northern youths organisations, which had their arrowheads in attendance, include Arewa Citizens Action…
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We the undersigned Owerri West supreme losers for and on behalf of ourselves and our generations unborn and ancestors do solemnly swear before Gov. Rochas Okorocha and other deities that: We are the movers and shakers of Owerri West with authority to speak for our ancestors as well as our generations unborn on this issue of Uche Onyeagocha. We have collectively disowned this our prodigal son Uche for fighting against his Royal Perfectness Gov. Okorocha aka the Familiocrat-in-Chief. We disown him for exposing Rochas of robbing our LGA of over N7.4billion since the past 6 years only, whereas we had…
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A GOOD brother of mine just gave me a copy of Graham Allison’s Destined For War-Can America and China Escape Thucydide’s Trap and it is a very illuminating read. Alison in the great work looked at the challenge a rising China poses to the United States and the possibility of a war between the two being a natural sequence. In an interview with NPR’s Robert Siegel on May 29, Allison described Thucydide’s as “when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power, one sees inherent structural stress that makes conflict likely. I look at the last 500 years, find…
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I would like to tell a Story of four people who became very Close Friends by Circumstances. I used to call them the “MOVING TRAIN” till It became Imperative that They had to seperate because in Politics, There are no Permanent friend or Permanent Enemies..ONLY PERMANENT INTEREST I wouldn’t want to bore you with stories How they met and How they helped each other to great heights but let’s put the story aside and face reality They are 1. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi 2. Nyesom Ezenwo Wike 3. Magnus Abe 4. Dakuku Adol Peterside Let’s keep politics aside and Face Reality..These…
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I always tell my friends that when you live your life without anyone hurting, disappointing, disgracing or offending you then it means you never did anything worthy. Before you continue reading this piece, I want to tell you that there are so many people who are buried daily, and their crime is that someone they offended couldn’t forgive them. There are innocent orphans and street children out there whose crime is that someone didn’t forgive their parents. The reality is that even as you read this piece, there may be someone you have blocked on whatsapp or facebook, or u…
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A former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations, Chief Emeka Anyaoku has joined the call for the restructuring of the country along a more flexible fiscal federal state, warning that the country’s federal structure as currently composed would not help Nigeria to attain nationhood. He contended that Nigeria was failing hence the need for a system which would replace the present federal structure, that retains more power and resources at the centre, asserting that the country must be restructured for Nigeria to develop and stay united. Anyaoku made this assertion in Abuja on Sunday during the launch of a book,…
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Fresh facts have now emerged over how Chief Martin Agbaso became the acting chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA). Contrary to insinuations in certain quarters, Chief Agbaso’s emergence as the new acting boss of APGA followed proper due process. recall that Agbaso is a foundation member and a stakeholder of the APGA. He is also a long standing major financier of the party since inception, having played active roles in the development of the party. APGA leadership was conferred on Agbaso on May 22, 2017 when Justice A R Ozoemena of Enugu High Court granted an order of…
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1) In the last few hours we have received numerous calls from our party members , concerned citizens and well wishers on our association or otherwise with the Advance Peoples Democratic Alliance (APDA) which was unveiled today at Abuja. 2. For the avoidance of doubt, we reiterate once again that we are not in any way associated with the new party in any form or guise. The APDA is neither an offshoot of the PDP nor its alter ego as some are speculating. 3. This statement is made purely to set the records straight and to avoid unnecessary innuendos ,speculations…
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It is wonderment that Igboland is at this moment being encircled and primed up for taking by the same viciously malevolent forces which plotted the Campaigns of 1966, 1967-1970 and the sinister 1966-1999 Documentations we now hold as “Constitution”, and all we seem eager to do is to erect wobbly narratives of uncooked fables. I would have preferred to spend the very minutes being invested on typing this post on other very pressing issues of now, but it is galling to see the desperate attempt being made to erect and sustain a narrative here that is at a jarring variance…
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I once posited that if someone in Lagos must attend a meeting in Trafalgar Square in London on a fixed date, maybe 3 weeks away, it is an option to trek to London, to ride on a donkey or on horseback, to ride on a bicycle or a motorcycle, to drive in a motor vehicle, to sail by canoe, speedboat or ship. The person can also fly into Heathrow and get off to Trafalgar Square. If I am the one who has to attend that meeting, I will fly. That is the kind of options juggling going on in the…
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Very little remains to be said about Nigeria, but there is a lot to be done. We are caught in a country, where an ethnic group is determined to use religion and state power to dominate others. They stall dialogue, but very focused on achieving what they want no matter how unfair to others because they hold them in contempt. They are relaxed about killing others and trampling on their rights. Nigeria is a country where a Fulani jihadist is president held his first security meeting with only northerners who are Muslims. After the meeting, 200 army officers mainly from…
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BEING A KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY RT. HON. EMEKA IHEDIOHA CON, KSC, FORMER DEPUTY SPEAKER, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AT THE 2017 DIOCESAN SYNOD OF THE DIOCESE OF THE ORLU , CHURCH OF NIGERIA ANGLICAN COMMUNION , AT ST. SILAS ANGLICAN CHURCH IHIOMA, ORLU, IMO STATE, MONDAY , JUNE 5, 2017 PROTOCOLS INTRODUCTION I thank Your Lordship, The Most Rev. Benneth Christopher, Ikechukwu Akwiwu Okoro, Ph.D, your dear wife (mama Orlu),and the Synod Organizing Committee of this Diocese, for finding me worthy to deliver the keynote address of this synod. May God continue to bless your endeavours. I have been tasked…
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Members of the House of Representatives from the South-East geopolitical zone have called for a provision for referendum in the Nigerian constitution to open up avenues for discussions on self-determination by Nigerians. They also insisted that Nigeria was due for restructuring and that it would be done, no matter how long it would take. The 1999 Constitution makes no provision for a referendum, leaving the National Assembly as the only legal representative gathering for deliberations on the governance of Nigeria. But South-East lawmakers, who spoke with Sunday PUNCH, said a provision for referendum was long due because it was part…
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Below is an extract from the proceedings of the Northern Region House of Assembly between February and March 1964, less than four years after Nigeria’s independence from the British. I have nothing to add. Read and judge for yourself: •Mallam Muhammadu Mustapha Mande Gyan: On the allocation of plots to Ibos or allocation of stalls, I would like to advise the Minister that these people know how to make money, and we do not know the way and manner of getting about this business. We do not want Ibos to be allocated with plots. I do not want them to…
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HISTORY OF IGBO MASSACRE (City/Town and Year) 1. Jos 1945 2. Kano genocide 1953 3. 1966 pogroms- over 60,000 civilians were killed 4. May 29th 1967- over 200,000 civilians were killed. 5. 1967-70 – over 3,100,0000 killed during the bloody civil war (Including the Asaba Genocide). 6. Kano 1980 7. Maiduguri 1982 8. Jimeta 1984 9. Gombe 1985 10.Zaria 1987 11.Kaduna & Kafanchan 1991 12.Bauchi & Katsina 1991 13. Kano 1991 14. Zangon-Kataf 1992 15. Funtua 1993 16. Kano 1994 17. Kaduna 2000 18. Kaduna 2001 19. Maiduguri 2001 20. Jos Maiden Crisis-Setember 2001 21. Kaduna 2002 22.Jos-November 2008 23.…
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The National Judicial Council, NJC, has recalled Justice Adeniyi Ademola, who once delivered a shocking against President Muhammadu Buhari’s fake WAEC certificate saga, and was later suspended on trumped-up charges on issues bordering on corruption. In a statement on Saturday, the Council said Ademola who is a Federal High Court Judge, was recalled alongside five others. Recall, that Ademola and seven other Judges were suspended in November 2016, months after he ruled that Buhari must come to the court to defend his WAEC result case. His resisdence was later raide by the Department of State Security Services, DSS, on what…
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National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Otunba Gani Adams has declared that Yorubas are solidly behind the Igbo people in the struggle for their own country called Biafra. Gani, while fielding questions from the Sun, said he would be that last person to go against the agitation of pro-Biafra groups, adding that it is their right. The OPC national Coordinator noted that the Igbos are now more sophisticated than in 1967-1970, calling on Nigeria to let them go. According to him, “I would be the last person that would ask the Igbo people to stop the agitation for…
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First Lady Aisha Buhari sent some cheery news home yesterday from London about her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari: he will return soon. She gave the update on the President’s health in a message to the 23rd Annual Ramadan Lecture of Ansar-ud-deen Society of Nigeria (ADS) held in Abuja. The First Lady, who left for London about five days ago, was represented at the lecture by her Senior Special Assistant on Administration, Dr. Hajo Sani. “My husband is recovering very fast. And very soon, he will return to the country to resume his official duties,” she said. “I thank Nigerians for…
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I’ve said it before and it bears repeating now, the biggest problem facing Southern Nigeria is not Buhari and his fellow islamist Nightwalkers but the presence of a very large horde of commonsensically bankrupt internet Wildlings masquerading as Southern youths. This generation of Southerners is peopled by one of the most foolish set of young men and women. Not that the elders are any better. Not at all.But you see this crop of southern youths, they have the gene of conscientious idiocy deeply embedded in their body system. These ones….they are far removed from common-sense. Even their education is but…
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I have been pondering as I go through discussions on various platforms, forums, and with friends that live in the USA, and I am quite surprised at what I am hearing, which drives me to ask a very worrying, but important question indeed. The question is, did the over four million legitimate U.S. citizens in the USA, of Igbo extraction (Eastern Nigeria, or as a few would call Biafrans) that voted in the Tuesday U.S. Election, vote for Donald Trump? Because if what I’m hearing is true, and looking at the votes in those States that were pretty close, perhaps…
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