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Instead of responding to the words of Eric Joyce, the former British MP who told the world via his twitter handle on 19th May that President Muhammadu Buhari had died in a London hospital, Deacon Femi Adesina, the special advisor to the president on Media, in an essay titled “They Learnt Nothing and They Forgot Nothing“, wrote like a true corpsocrat, refused to clarify the matter and instead said that he was ready to follow Buhari “into battle blindfolded”. Clearly my good friend Adesina has much to learn from an essay that yours truly wrote last week titled “The Language…
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Many here may not have known that PRONACO was basically an initiative by the arrowheads of the then defunct NADECO, led by Chief Enahoro, to get the ethnic Nationalities of Nigeria, to revalidate the Aburi Consensus as basis of the Constitutional Framework and Architecture of Nigeria. Ojukwu, Soyinka, Beko, Onoh, were some of the other leading lights from the South that drove the process. Buhari was a part of the Northern Delegation to the Conference which was why the PRONACO featured as the anchor of his 2007 Campaign as we can see in the MNN pictures posted here this week.…
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The Senate caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted a statement credited to the Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, that the South East zone was not omitted in the development of some rail lines for which the sum of $5.8 billion loan was taken from China Exim Bank. Spokesman of the Senate PDP caucus, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, who had raised a motion on the floor of the Senate last week, about the development, insisted yesterday that Amaechi was trying to divert attention from the issue. Abaribe asked Amaechi to explain why the South-East corridor was scheduled for concessionaires to…
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The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), the body empowered to meet the yearnings of Nigerians for stable, adequate and safe electricity supply, has taken the bulll by the horn by releasing to the public, the rights of every electricity consumer. Read the rights below: 1. All new electricity connections must be done strictly on the basis of metering before connection. That is, no new customer should be connected without meter first being installed. 2. A customer who elects to procure meter under the Credited Advance Payment for Metering Implementation (CAPMI) Scheme must be metered within 60 days, after which the…
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…As Aguleri youths berate Ezeonwuka over comments About 3,000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday, defected to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Ugbene community, Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The defectors, led by the National Chairman of Ugbene Great Ambassadors Club, Chief Aaron Onwelukwue, disclosed that their defection was informed by Governor Willie Obiano’s “sterling performance in office” which they crave its continuity. Special Adviser to the governor on Security Matters, Chief Chikodi Anara, and Chairman of APGA in the community, Mr. Cajethan Anako, while receiving the…
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As Biafrans are getting ready to immortalized those who gave their lives to Biafra struggle and to those that gave up everything they have amidst social criticism just to be ” Biafran” on the May 30th sit in, we must remember one man that took our fight globally, Middle weight and Light Heavy Weight Boxing Champion of the world, the Biafran, late Dick Tiger Ihetu. Dick Tiger was a lieutenant during the biafran war. He trained young solders. When he sensed how his people were slaughtered, he rushed home to help. Most of his boxing money was used to cater…
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Senator Andrew Nwankwo from the Izzi clan in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, was a captain in the Nigeria Air Force before the January 1966 coup that made way for Major General J. T. U Aguiyi Ironsi to emerge as Head of State. He became Ironsi’s Aide-De-Camp through the recommendation of Brigadier George Krubo who was then in-charge of the Air Force and subsequently supervised the late Head of State’s security. Capt. Andrew Nwankwo (rtd) said he was to die with his boss, but for fate. He was present when both Ironsi and Fajuyi were shot dead. Tracking the 61-year-old former ADC…
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• Agenda is to hurt our region, Yakassai insists. • It’s the way out, say Onadipe, Akande, The controversy over whether or not to restructure the country continued at the weekend with two elder statesmen, Malam Tanko Yakassai and Chief Bisi Akande as well as former Nigerian Ambassador to China, Olusola Onadipe expressing divergent positions on the matter. The persistence of the calls for restructuring requires a decisive move by all the citizens to resolve the issue amicably instead of allowing it to breed ethnic suspicion and hostility. In an interview with The Guardian, Yakassai said the north was uncomfortable…
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The Supreme Court has dismissed an application filed by a factional leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, Ali-Modu Sheriff, asking the court not to hear a motion by his challenger, Ahmed Makarfi. Mr. Sheriff had asked the court to refuse to hear the application filed by Mr. Makarfi, challenging the February 17 judgement of the Appeal Court in Port Harcourt which made Mr. Sheriff leader of the PDP. At the opening of the hearing on Monday, Mr. Sheriff’s lawyer, Akin Olujimi, said the application was an abuse of court process because Mr. Makarfi ought to have requested the leave of…
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An Enugu High Court has given an order of MANDAMUS compelling INEC to abide by the decision of party in recognizing Chief Martin Agbaso as the National Chairman of APGA. And also an order restraining INEC from recognizing any other person as National Chairman of APGA except Chief Martin Agbaso. The court went further to compel the Nigerian Police Force to comply with the decision of the party. ……more details soon
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Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and seven other leaders will on Thursday speak at a conference on the Memory and Nation Building – Biafra: 50 Years After. At the one-day conference, which will hold at the Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja by 9am, Osinbajo is expected to deliver a keynote address. A statement by the Foundation listed other speakers as a former Permanent Secretary Information, Education & Industry, Alhaji Ahmed Joda, President General Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, and Professor John Stremlau of the University of Witwatersrand will serve as lead speakers. Honourable Chudi Offodile…
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The governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom, has signed the bill prohibiting Open Rearing and Grazing into law in the state. The development is coming few days after the Benue State House of Assembly passed the bill prohibiting Open Rearing and Grazing into law. Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting in Makurdi, the Benue State capital on Monday, governor Ortom described the development as a right step taken in a right direction, adding that his administration would do all it would to protect the state from intruders and criminals. While thanking those who sponsored the bill, governor Ortom urged them to…
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The just concluded examinations (UTME) conducted by JAMB on prospective candidates into universities has unfortunately become another tool in the hands of federal institutions under the APC administration to continue to attempt to humiliate Ndigbo in every area of their success in order to futilely make them appear as villains rather than as the victims of a jaundiced system maturing into a malignant cancerous entity. Like an already well rehearsed script, no sooner had the exams ended than JAMB came up with a wild and ludicrous claim that more than 10,000 candidates were caught in exam malpractices in Anambra State,…
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The Chairman of the South-East Caucus in the Senate, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has challenged the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, to explain why the eastern corridor was allegedly excluded in the rail line projects of the Federal Government. Abaribe, on Sunday in Abuja, asked Amaechi to explain why rail lines in the South-East corridor were billed for concession, while rail lines in other parts of the country would be built with funds borrowed by the Federal Government and which the entire the country would pay. The Abia North senator had at the plenary on Tuesday protested against the alleged…
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1. It is said that the voluntary surrender of power in 1979 to Alhaji Shehu Shagari gave the military, as then represented by Olusegun Obasanjo, a sanctimonious self-righteous air of being Nigeria’s custodian of democracy and moral conscience. However, the National Christian Elders’ Forum (NCEF) sees things differently to wit: that the handing over of power in 1979 was a stage in the promotion of Islamism in Nigeria. The reasons for the 1966 coup may be obscure but the fact remains that the first Law passed by the Independent Nigerian Parliament was the Emergency Act of 1961, signed by Dr…
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In a White House memo dated Tuesday, January 28, 1969, to President Nixon, former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger describes the Igbos as “the wandering Jews of West Africa-gifted, aggressive, westernized, at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by their neighbors in the federation”(foreign relations document, volume E-5, documents on Africa 1969-1972). Kissinger’s description aptly portrays the Christian Igbos and their experience in Nigeria. Over the years, the Igbo have been the victims of numerous massacres, that they have lost count. Most of the violence directed against the Igbos have been state sponsored. One can say that the Igbos…
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Foreign exchange shortages have forced Nigerians to buy more locally produced products, an official has said. Joseph Nnanna, deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, said this in an interview with Bloomberg. Mr. Nnanna said that one advantage of the foreign-exchange shortage is that they forced Nigerians to buy more local products, including food such as rice. “The craze for imported goods has declined,” the CBN official was quoted as saying. “Our consumption pattern is changing. We are producing what we used to import before.” Commenting further, Mr. Nnanna said that the CBN would keep monetary policy tight…
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” A Tesla Model S, which has 18 moving parts, one hundred times fewer than a combustion engine car. “Maintenance is essentially zero,” says Stanford University economist Tony Seba. “That is why Tesla is offering infinite-mile warranties. You can drive it to the moon and back and they will still warranty it.” No more petrol or diesel cars, buses, or trucks will be sold anywhere in the world within eight years. The entire market for land transport will switch to electrification, leading to a collapse of oil prices and the demise of the petroleum industry as we have known it…
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The 2015 general elections have come and gone, but the echoes are getting louder by the day, with parties celebrating, taunting, warning, or even blaming one another, depending on the side of the divide one belongs to. This trend has not been limited to the principal actors of the elections; it has also taken the dangerous and unhelpful dimension of tribal diatribes among citizens.From the outburst and threat of the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, against Ndigbo resident in Lagos, that their voting must follow a particular pattern in the last gubernatorial election, to the several and severe harassment…
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In 2003 I was elected to the House of Representatives to serve the Abeokuta South constituency, in Ogun state. My eight years in elected office made me less optimistic about change in Nigeria, but more realistic. The political system was not designed to allow people like me – a 37 year old from the private sector who had studied in the UK and at Harvard – to become Speaker of the House of Representatives, the role I held from 2007 to 2011. Nevertheless, I was able to work within the system successfully and make a difference, so imagine the impact…
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Backs Biafra agitation Spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, Prof Ango Abdullahi has declared that the North is fully prepared for Nigeria’s break up if that will make component parts agitating for separate countries or restructuring happy. He explains his position in details in this interview with ABDULLAHI HASSAN in Zaria, Kaduna state. Some South East leaders have accused Northern Elders of sabotaging efforts to restructure the country. What is your reaction to this? You see the issue of restructuring is one of the fundamental issues that shape Nigerian history from 1914 up to 1960. In fact, we are not…
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There are elders and there are elders. Prof. Ango Abdullahi is not an elder. A real elder does not pursue a rat while his house is on fire. I needed to get that out of the way before those who excuse bad behaviors accuse me of abusing an elder. In Nigeria, an elder is a washed up politician who is too old to be an ambassador and too young to spend his time making peace with his maker for all the iniquities he created. You see them all over Nigeria, east, west, north and south. They call themselves elders yet…
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I have observed this interesting and fierce competition between the “yuppie” churches, especially along the Lekki axis; it simply is amazing the quantum of advertising that is going on, especially on the out-of-home medium. From the Law School all the way to Ajah, its an amazing media assault. Wow. I am not sure a week goes by without some new material announcing a programme or the other being posted. Its an exciting time for the Church! I have however observed that the five or so churches involved in this blitzkrieg are so keen to achieve dominance that they have basically…
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“I witnessed it first-hand last week. I went to the Aguata registration centre at a remote location at Ekwuluobia to register. I saw a lot of young people hanging around, I asked if they were not registering, and I was informed that INEC said they can’t register because they were 18 at the point of the last registration and they did not register. They can only register if they can prove that they weren’t around in the last registration exercise by providing a copy of their international passport. I found the demand strange. I requested to see the Oga, I…
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Fifty six years after a referendum and plebiscite was organised for the English speaking Southern Cameroun to join others to form the nation, the region yesterday in Abuja said it seeks for the restoration of independence. The referendum held on the 11th February, 1961 was for the Southern Cameroun to decide whether to join the former British colony of Nigeria or the former French colony of Cameroun. The referendum through a United Nations (UN) resolution 1608 enacted a two nation-state, where the Southern Cameroun and the La Rèpublique du Cameroun exist side by side. There are six million registered Nigerians…
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The most difficult challenge that Nigerians face is not the hegemony of the Hausa Fulani ruling class but the ignorance and slavish mentality of some of those from the Middle Belt and the south that they have conquered. Ignorance, cowardice and delusion is the language and practice of slaves. And it is typical of a slave to despise and hate those that seek to liberate him from his slave masters and his chronic bondage. This is because the liberator or, if you like, the deliverer, reminds them of their slavish and pitiful condition and continuosly urges them to try and…
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Ahead of the May 30 2017 Biafra Remembrance Day, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has announced plans to mark the event. The IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, disclosed this in a press release in Awka yesterday. He said the group, led by Nnamadi Kanu would honour the heroes and heroines who died in the Nigeria civil war from 1967 to 1970. He disclosed that the IPOB would use the event to prove to the whole world that they were ready for the upcoming referendum for the sovereignty of Biafra. He stressed that the IPOB family units in…
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Do you know that a week after you die, it is very likely that your brothers and cousins will ask your wife and your children to pack out of your house? That means your daughter may end up selling “pure water” in the street to survive, while that your good-for-nothing brother is living in your house and driving your cars, and marrying extra wives or taking new chieftaincy titles? This will happen because you were stupid when you were alive. You refused to empower your wife. You treated her as if she was a stranger. First, you refused to give…
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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), yesterday accused soldiers from the military cantonment at Ohafia, Abia State of swooping on its women at a meeting at Abiriba, Abia State, while identifying with IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. It was alleged that soldiers from the 14 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Ohafia, Abia State, had yesterday broke into a peaceful meeting of women in the area and allegedly roughhandled and arrested some women for reasons yet to be ascertained. But a statement made available to journalists in Awka, IPOB media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, alleged that the Nigeria Police also…
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Fresh facts have emerged on how the Federal Government succeeded in securing the release of 82 Chibok girls, who were abducted in exchange for Boko Haram commanders last week. It was gathered that in exchange for the Boko Haram commanders, the government ‘handsomely rewarded’ the terror group with a discharge fee of two million Euros. This latest revelation was contained in a news story posted by an online news portal, the British Broadcasting Service (BBC), on its website last night. Though the medium did not mention its sources, it, however, reported that the ‘freed terrorists’ were highlevel Boko Haram bomb…
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When I evolved from a political writer to a revolutionary writer, I knew at once that the tide had borne me. Today, nothing else matters. What I dream of, think of, prognosticate is a nation South-East and South-South can call their own. What our governors are doing, or will do is not my concern anymore, for I know they are all functioning in a very faulty template. Nigeria is an expired drug, for she cannot cure those for which she was fabricated anymore. Of course, the lies the North used to split the South-East and South-South have run out of…
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We can replicate the Trudeau and the Macron phenomenon in Nigeria if we effectively and efficiently organize rather than agonize. WE CAN, if we repudiate crash partisanship and embrace patriotism. WE CAN, if we lampoon religiosity and court true brotherhood. And WE CAN, if we elect truth, fairness and justice over ethnicity and nepotism. Conscious of the voter demographics, if we mobilize effectively WE CAN take power in 2019. Don’t let naysayers and ‘Doubting Thomases’ plunder your faith, it is absolutely possible. And we do not need their kind of financial war chest to pull this through, all we need…
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The federal government is making over N10 billion from operators of 146 private jets in Nigeria. The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) confirmed as at August 2016, that there are 146 corporate jets in the country of which only 46 were registered in Nigeria while 100 have foreign registration. We gathered that the total amount in taxes, charges, over-flier, landing and parking, is over N10 billion annually. According a jet owner who spoke under condition of anonymity, the taxes could be as high as N47.9 billion should the federal government make good its plan to go ahead to add luxury…
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The Nigerian Ports Authority and and Integrated Logistics Services Nigeria Limited (Intels), Nigeria’s leading logistic firm for the oil and gas industry, are locked in a fierce business dispute, with the NPA threatening to terminate Intels’ port revenue collection contract, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report today. Those familiar with the matter said the dispute, which has seen the two parties hold several tension-soaked meetings and exchange aggressive correspondences, arose from Intels’ alleged non-compliance with the Federal Government’s Treasury Single Account policy. The two parties also appear to disagree over the funding of a key capital project the logistics company is…
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Reading comments by some “Biafra” Agitators, one problem the LNC has observed is that most of those who are warming up for one great war of machetes and guns with Nigeria are the ones who have not taken the trouble to understand that the LNC committed a huge chunk of its energies to first asphyxiate the monster called Nigeria to stupor and death as a Strategy for freeing its many captives including Eastern Nigeria. This is totally different from the calculations of those who are thinking only in terms of Biafra that will fight the rest of Nigeria with bombs,…
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By some Diplomatic hyperbole, laced with arrogance but bordering on the fringes of lunacy, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria declared that Britain was firmly in support of One-Nigeria and that the Unity of Nigeria was nonnegotiable, at a time a clear majority of those tagged “Nigerian” just by the impositions of Geography and accidents of History, are vehemently rejecting that appellation because of the refusal of the obdurate proprietors of the failed, toxic One-Nigeria to embrace the imperative of a grand renegotiation of the wobbly Union. It would appear that there is a time warp playing on the head…
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is in the final stage of signing $6 billion worth of deals to exchange more than 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil for imported gasoline and diesel, sources with direct knowledge of the process told Reuters. The contracts, which come three months later than expected, include three more pairs of companies than last year, reflecting Nigeria’s increased reliance on NNPC for fuel imports. A lack of local refining capacity means Nigeria is reliant on imported gasoline, kerosene and other petroleum products, and the oil price crash and militant attacks on Nigeria’s oil…
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Many prominent Nigerians gained insight into the resolutions of the 2014 National Conference on Thursday when a delegate to the assembly, Chief Ajibola Ogunshola, delivered a lecture on it. It was at the second edition of the Chief Chris Ogunbanjo Lecture Series, held at the Metropolitan Club, Victoria Island, Lagos. In his lecture titled, ‘Lessons from the 2014 National Conference; Ogunshola, who is the Chairman of Continental Reinsurance Plc, put in perspectives the resolutions of the conference and how the delegates arrived at them. One of them bordered on the restructuring of the country, as especially discussed under possible re-zoning…
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OFFICE OF THE ACTING PRESIDENT: PRESS RELEASE In exercise of the presidential authorities vested in the Executive arm of government, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, today signed three executive orders that will significantly change some of the ways government business and operations are conducted in the country forthwith. Ahead of the signing, the Acting President held an interactive session at the old Banquet Hall of Presidential Villa with all relevant government officials, including ministers, permanent secretaries and heads of departments and agencies among others. The session was meant to directly engage government officials who would be implementing the orders and…
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After Nigeria was dragged to the brink of the abyss by two military coups in 1966, its military leaders met to try to bring the country back from the brink. The meeting evolved into perhaps the best documented constitutional debate of all time which touched upon fundamental concepts regarding the balance of power between the central government and federating regions in a federation and professional soldiers’ outlook to military coups and seniority. It was a potential breakthrough occasion. Between January 5th and 7th 1967, the memembers of that SMC. Following a second bloody army coup in July 1966, the mbers…
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Please permit me to begin this write up about Diaspora bashing with a true story. Sometime in 2007 a very good friend of mine came to my office and told me that he was in line to become the president of ICAN and that he wanted to leave a legacy. I asked him what legacy and he told me that he wanted me to help him establish the USA District Society of the Institute of the Accountancy of Nigeria. While we were discussing I expected him to know the impact Diasporans are having in the various countries of the world.…
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The federal parliamentary election campaign in December 1964–the first since independence–was contested by two political alliances incorporating all the major parties. The Nigerian National Alliance (NNA) was composed of the NPC, Akintola’s Western-based Nigerian National Democratic Party, and opposition parties representing ethnic minorities in the Midwestern and Eastern regions. It was opposed by the United Progressive Grand Alliance (UPGA), which joined the NCNC and the remnants of the Action Group with two minority-based northern allies, the Northern Elements Progressive Union and the United Middle Belt Congress. Not surprisingly, the NNA adopted a platform that reflected the views of the northern…
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Owerri was founded about the 14th century by father Ekwem Oha. His mother’s name was Arugo. He fled from Umuori Village, Uratta in Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State when his life was threatened by his younger brother Ndum. The threat to his life arose from the dispute over the sharing of the Funeral Cow slaughtered when their father Oha the aristocrat and embodiment of royalty died. The first son (Opara in Igbo) Ekwem was to provide the funeral cow as demanded by custom. He did not have the means to do so. He appealed to his younger…
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Contrary to what some analysts have recently suggested, endemic corruption in Nigeria has no genetic foundation, but it is rather a manifestation of several “social norms” that make sharp practices an acceptable way of life. Therefore, an average citizen sees regular acts of misconduct, especially giving and soliciting bribes, as the rule rather than the exception, a worrisome dimension that now requires integration of behavioural lessons and strategic advocacy to address. This is contained in a new report that highlights the need for a new approach on corruption in Nigeria. The report was launched Wednesday in Abuja by Chatham House,…
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Nigeria to launch Africa’s 1st nanosatellite Nigeria is to launch Africa’s first nanosatellite (an artificial satellite with a wet mass between one and 10 kg 2.2–22 lb) into the orbit, the Director-General of National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Prof Seidu Mohammed, has said. Mohammed told the Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York that the Nigeria’s nanosatellite would be launched alongside four other countries between May 23 to May 27. The NASRDA chief disclosed that the nanosatellite would be launched “within the window of May 23 and 27” from the launch base at Miami,…
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Never mind the official story – That Prof Babs Fafunwa, an educationist one-time Education minister, dropped History to encourage students to take up science tech courses. NO! Pure lies. How has Nigeria fared in science tech decades after? What have we invented? How come American history is taught at all levels from kindergarten, yet it has not stopped America from being a tech giant? Wake up Naija!! Fafunwa was only used as a willing tool for a political cover up. The REAL REASONS Nigerian History was dropped are: 1. They don’t want you to know that Uthman Dan Fodio was…
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Suspected assassins on Wednesday killed a former Acting Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Bayelsa Mr Pamo Hobobo, Police sources say. Mr Asinim Butswat Police Spokesman for Bayelsa Command confirmed the incident while speaking in Yenagoa. “One Pamo Christopher Hobobo of PDP Road, Yenagoa was found dead in his house at about 7000hrs today (Wednesday). “Preliminary investigation revealed he was stabbed on the chest with a sharp object. “His corpse has been deposited at FMC Yenagoa for autopsy. Investigation is ongoing,” he said. Hobobo, who hailed from Agbere in Sagbama Local Government Area of the state, was attacked…
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An alleged schoolgirl who was one of those abducted by the Boko Haram in 2014 has escaped from captivity, a presidential aide has told the BBC. The girl was reportedly found by government troops while she was escaping, Femi Adesina said, without giving details. The girl was reportedly one of the 276 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram from Chibok town in 2014, sparking global outrage. A total of 103 of the girls have been released so far, including 82 earlier this month in a prisoner swap. The 82 girls, who met President Muhammadu Buhari on May 7, are expected to…
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The Northern Elders Forum has declared that the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo cannot replace President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 should anything happen to Buhari who has been abroad for a medical follow-up. Chairman of Northern Elders Forum, Professor Ango Abdullahi, said should President Muhammadu Buhari fail to seek re-election in 2019, the North must retain the presidency by fielding a candidate through the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, party. Abdullahi said although Professor Osinbajo, according to the constitution, should be allowed to complete the current tenure being Buhari’s Vice, he must not contest in 2019 should Buhari fail to…
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The US Justice Department has appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller to oversee investigations into potential ties between associates of President Donald Trump and Russian operatives, the department announced in a statement on Wednesday. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made the appointment, amid calls for a special counsel after multiple revelations in recent days threatened to derail the investigation. “My decision is not a finding that crimes have been committed or that any prosecution is warranted,” Rosenstein said in the DOJ statement. “I have made no such determination. What I have determined is that based upon the unique circumstances, the…
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As separatist feelings and agitation continue by different groups across Nigeria calling attention to the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Republic of Oduduwa in the West, the Middle Belt in north central Nigeria is also asking for secession from Nigeria citing reasons why it should be allowed to secede. This was contained in a piece written by Awunah Pius Terwase saying the centre can no longer hold and it has, therefore , becoming increasingly necessary to fall apart. In the piece below titled ”We want Middle…
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It has been gathered that a top aide of President Muhammadu Buhari might be in trouble for the role he allegedly played before the President’s medical trip to the UK. There were indications, last night, that the aide, who has already courted many controversies for the Presidency, might be probed for the latest action and other scandals he had been enmeshed in since being put in the key post in the Presidency. A top government source disclosed that the latest offence that got Buhari very upset, was the attempt by the said aide to breach the clear provisions of the…
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Nearly two years after the conclusion of the 2015 general election, the Hope Democratic Party (HDP) has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to nullify the election largely won by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), citing violation of campaign expenses limit during the poll. The HDP is also asking the court to order President Muhammadu Buhari who won the presidential election and the Vice Professor, Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) to step aside from office and the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to be dissolved on the claim that the election which put them in place…
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The British government has warned against “non-democratic” change of government in Nigeria, amid speculations about military coup as concerns grow over President Muhammadu Buhari’s health. “The British government believes that democracy is actually critical in Nigeria,” the United Kingdom High Commissioner to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright, said on Wednesday. “There are elections. If you’re not happy with your leaders then you should change your leadership through the democratic process and through elections.” The High Commissioner spoke on the sidelines of an event held in Abuja to formally launch a new report on corruption in Nigeria which was put together by UK…
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‘The will of the people shall be the basis of authority of government’ Universal declaration of Human rights. I have often been asked, why I do not support the break up of Nigeria, in spite of evidence that it is not working. My answer is simple, why pull down a house if you can renovate it by knocking down a few walls and changing certain fittings? I have a fundamental belief that people are first of all human beings who need the same thing, irrespective of ethnicity or religion, to fell happy, listened to and respected. Therefore when the problem stem…
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On Friday, May 5, 2017, the Department of State Services otherwise known as Nigeria’s secret police because of the nature of their mandate, arrested and detained the Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Ltd, Dr Ifeanyi Ubah. It is instructive to note for the benefit of this piece that Dr Ubah has since remained in the DSS custody since then without being charged to court despite the claim of the DSS in its earlier press release declaring that it would prosecute Ubah “forthwith”. In that release, the DSS had lined up a plethora of allegations against the oil magnate…
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“Why has Acting President Osinbajo not been allowed to swear in the new Ministers that were cleared by the Senate? Who is stopping him? Again first it was Junaid Mohammed and now it is the Northern Elders saying that he cannot take over in 2019. Are southerners slaves in Nigeria? Meanwhile Lere Olayinka has asked the following pertinent questions and said that they should bother Nigerians. “1. Acting President Yemi Osinbajo is yet to swear in new ministers cleared two weeks ago, why? 2. Acting President Yemi Osinbajo is yet to sign 2017 Budget passed last week, why? 3. Politicians…
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An elder statesman and leader of Northern Elders Council, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, on Tuesday in Kano reaffirmed his earlier position against the restructuring of the country, contending that Nigeria will remain indivisible. While responding to questions on state of the nation in Kano on Tuesday, Yakasai maintained that despite the lingering agitation from some quarters for restructuring of the country, nobody, till date has come out with a blueprint to back up the restructuring. According to him, as long as no one comes out with a blueprint on restructuring of the country, he will continue to pitch his tent, with…
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Culturally, the Igbos are a very diverse group with different clans, families, subcultures, and subgroups. However, the customs are similar with local varieties. Although there are disagreements about the origins of the Igbos, there is a consensus that they originated from Nri in Anambra State of Nigeria. The language of the Igbos is Igbo or Ibo. It is one of the largest spoken languages in Africa, with Hausa and Yoruba. Igbo speaking people are divided into five geographically based subcultures-Northern Igbo, Western Igbo, Southern Igbo, Eastern Igbo and Northeastern Igbo. Not as urbanized as the Yoruba, they live in multitudinous…
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If we must refresh our memory, Okorocha, in six years, has received in revenue a total sum of Nine Hundred and eighty Two Billion Naira (N982bn). In 2012 alone, for example, Okorocha received a total Revenue of N209.79bn. Okorocha’s revenue in 2012 alone is more them what Ohakim received in his entire four years of governorship. Ohakim’s administration received only a total of N140bn in his four years of governorship.Yet if you add contractors obligation, unpaid salaries/pensions, judgment debts to official state and local government commercial loans, Okorocha has gotten Imo State into a debt profile in excess of N238b.…
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What is existence? How do you describe the existence of something? What does it mean for anything to exist? These questions have been plaguing me for most of my later adult life. Walking along any street of a city, I am aware that the concrete under my feet is composed of some of the same atoms that make up my living body. However those atoms are, as scientists have proven, composed of mostly nothing. The subatomic particles within that small vastness of nothing move about at nearly the speed of light in a probability field of neither here nor there…
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National Leader of the ruling party, All Progressive Congress, APC,Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Tuesday called for true federalism in Nigeria. He also challenged the Federal Government to devolve power to the component units of the country to pave way for genuine development and growth. He made the call at the 91st Anniversary of Daily Times and Times heroes awards held at International Conference Centre, Abuja. Tinubu, who was represented by the Governor of Osun state, Rauf Aregbesola, said Nigerians must begin to ask questions on why the country has remained underdeveloped despite passing through the oil boom and so many…
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Sir, I want to thank you for your concern about the welfare of the people of the South South by exposing the plans of the Igbos to recolonize the region. But I am worried about the sincerity of these your concerns. Because of these worries, let us dissect and carefully assess your statements of fear and concerns in four (4) segments, so as not to repeat the mistakes of 1964, 1966 and 1967-1970s till date. In your carefully written letter or chat with the Journalists as reported in the national dallies yesterday, you clearly stated that the Igbos want to;…
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Fellow Nigerian citizens, On behalf of the patriotic and well-meaning peoples of the Middle Belt and the southern parts of this country, I , Major Gideon Orka, wish to happily inform you of the successful ousting of the dictatorial, corrupt, drug baronish, evil man, deceitful, homo-sexually-centered, prodigalistic, un-patriotic administration of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. We have equally commenced their trials for unabated corruption, mismanagement of national economy, the murders of Dele Giwa, Major-General Mamman Vasta, with other officers as there was no attempted coup but mere intentions that were yet to materialize and other human rights violations. The National Guard…
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*Sheriff rejects rival’s counsel The division in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) got to a head yesterday, with the Ahmed Makarfi group telling its supporters to seek other platforms for their ambitions. The group is battling for the soul of the former ruling party with the Ali Modu Sheriff court-backed leadership. The Supreme Court is to settle the crisis. It advised the state chapters to choose any available alternative platform to field candidates in the forthcoming council elections in Lagos and other elections across the states. There are also by–elections coming up in many states. The PDP crisis has remained…
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With the Anambra gubernatorial elections drawing near, the political musical chairs appear ever so certain to spring surprises as the battle for the top seat becomes fiercer. Information available to Oblong Media obtained from competent sources indicate that the immediate former Aviation Minister under the Jonathan administration, Osita Chidoka and a former House of Representative member, Chudi Ofodile have concluded plans to dump the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] for the United People Party [UPP] against the gubernatorial exercise coming up on November 18, 2019. Osita Chidoka is expected to make a public announcement concerning his defection to the UPP in…
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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has warned soldiers to steer clear of politics, adding that he received information that some individuals had been approaching some officers and soldiers for undisclosed political reasons. Buratai warned that men and officers caught in meetings with politicians would be penalised. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Sani Usman, in a statement on Tuesday, disclosed the COAS’s stand. He said, “The COAS has received information about some individuals approaching soldiers and, on the basis of that, he has warned such persons to desist from this act. “He also reminded them that…
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•IPOB anniversary to hold in 120 countries as Lion Squad march in Onitsha Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, yesterday, reaffirmed the appointment of Uche Mefor as his deputy and Chika Edoziem as head of the Directorate. Kanu said the duo would be responsible for communicating his thoughts and views to IPOB membership and the rest of the world, through Radio Biafra. He added that no other person has the right to issue press release without their permission. Kanu, who spoke through his lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, in a statement said the structural setup of IPOB…
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Although Nigeria is currently recovering some looted funds, it cannot rely on the loot to fund the budget, an official has said. Speaking at an Abuja Town Hall meeting, Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun said the federal government was working to block wastage, increase GDP and embark on single window project execution. On budget funding, the minister said that Nigeria would rather go on short term borrowing than rely on recovered loot to fund the annual budget. “We cannot afford to rely on recovered loots to fund our budget, we have to go on short term borrowing,” she said. “What borrowing…
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The Senate, Tuesday, said it would decline to consider and approve the $5.8 billion loan request from the China Exim Bank by the Federal Government over the exclusion of the South-East from the beneficiaries of the loan. The Federal Government had requested the approval of the Senate foe it to borrow the sum for the construction of Standard Guage lines from Lagos-Kano, Kano-Kaduna, Lagos-Ibadan, and Lagos Calabar. While considering a motion moved by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, (PDP Abia South), the senate resolved that the loan would not be considered except all regions were carried along in the utilisation of the…
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The Senate, Tuesday, resolved to summon the Transport Minister, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi over the exclusion of South-East from the beneficiaries of the $5.8bn loan request from China Exim Bank by the Federal Government for the construction of Standard Guage lines across the country. The Federal Government is now requesting the loan which will be repaid by all regions of the country including the South-East to fund a standard guage lines running from Lagos-Kano, Kano-Kaduna, Lagos-Ibadan, and Lagos Calabar which is a deviation from the original plan that included the Eastern section that links the four zones of the South-South, South-East,…
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Senate began investigation in INEC PVC registration process in South East, South South which may lead to disenfranchisement of millions of voters. Senate on Tuesday began investigation into lapses in the ongoing Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Permanent Voters Card (PVC) registration process in the South East and South South which may lead to disenfranchisement of millions of voters. Presenting the petition on behalf of South East/ South South Network (SESSnet), Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe told the lawmakers about worrisome lapses in the ongoing INEC Permanent Voters card (PVC) registration in the regions. Consequently, Senate President, Bukola Saraki directed Senator…
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Many women have been sent to their early grave by the callousness of some of these health centres. I have had personal experience and have also known other women who died just like that. No woman should die trying to birth life in this country. Enough already. This is Chisom Anekwe (nee Okereke), a young, vivacious, graceful, kind-hearted and intelligent woman who had devoted her life to helping indigent kids and giving their lives a meaning. She’s an alumna of LEAP Africa. Two weeks ago, precisely April 30th 2017, Chisom died under questionable circumstances at Magodo Specialist Hospital while trying…
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On July 19 2016, Nigeria’s prime espionage outfit, the SSS (or DSS) arrested the Speaker of Zamfara State House of Assembly, his Deputy, the Majority Leader and the Chief Whip and other principal officers and flew them to Abuja. What was their offence? Treason? No! Breach of state security? No! Terrorism? No! They were allegedly plotting to impeach Gov. Abdulaziz Yari by inviting him to explain the disappearance of certain funds, including the bailout funds! That was their offence. Other members of the House fled the state and took refuge in Kaduna. For those who follow the news as closely…
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. . . . There is no no-man’s land. There are always some people who are original settlers. In the case of Lagos, it’s a misnomer to say Lagos is a no-man’s land. It’s rubbish. Absolute rubbish! Lagos was peopled by the Aworis and Awori land spread from Badagry through to Ota. They settled mostly in Ikeja, a division of Lagos. The Idejo chiefs, the white cap chiefs, who are the land owning chiefs, are basically Aworis and some of them are now Obas. I’m talking about the Oniru, The Olumegbon, Aromire, Oluwa, Ojora, Oloto and a couple others. After…
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I extend to President Muhammadu Buhari my warmest sympathies on his sick bed. It is a measure of the fragility of our democracy that an elected president insists on hiding his frailty from the people who are compelled to pay for his treatment abroad. There is no hiding place in the constitution. I reiterate that it is a shame and an embarrassment that despite Mr. Buhari’s promises and posturing for many years, he sees no irony in running off to the United Kingdom for his medical needs, leaving behind the nation’s most expensive (and presumably best-equipped) publicly-funded clinic in the…
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This week in New York, my daughter, Eseosa, will become the first of my four children to earn a higher degree. It will be a proud moment for my family, but particularly for me. Why? It is 35 years since I abandoned my quest to earn a Masters degree in Mass Communication at the University of Lagos. After one full year, I could not justify the quest. Thirteen of us had overcome a qualifying exam of over 250 people to get into the program. Upon arrival, I was surprised to find how poorly organized the department was. In the Print…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has again arraigned former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, before a Federal High Court in Lagos. This is clearly as a result of his being very critical of President Buhari, his incapacity to rule Nigeria and the glaring incompetence of the APC led Federal government. Fani-Kayode, was the Spokesperson of former President, Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election campaign. He was re-arraigned alongside Nenadi Usman, a former Minister of State for Finance on a 17-count charge of money laundering and alleged diversion of N4.6 billion. Also included are one Danjuma Yusuf and a company, Joint Trust Dimension…
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Do you also know why they insist on having a grazing path across the length and breadth of Nigeria, especially, the South? Let me sort out the economic reasoning first. It is estimated that over 40,000 cows are consumed everyday, especially in the South, 1.2million catlles every month and around 15million every year. If you put an average of N100,000- N150,000 as the price of a Cow, you will discover that the owners of these cows, who are mostly Fulani bigmen of the Miyetti ALLAH group, mostly retired generals and politicians (forget the poor herdmen that work for them ),…
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When I first arrived in Nigeria to set up the country’s first GSM mobile network, Econet Wireless Nigeria (now Airtel Nigeria), I had to serve as the company’s interim CEO for about six months, until we appointed someone substantive. This meant I practically lived in Nigeria for most of that time. It was a remarkable experience, and one which will remain with me all my life. Nigeria is one of the most exciting countries in the world, and could be the next China before the turn of this century. I just want to share with you one particular incident which…
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The news reaching the Newsroom of Oblong Media has it that a Kaduna State High Court presided over by Honourable Justice Esther Lolo has ruled against Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasiru El-Rufai in favour of Barr Gloria Mabeim Ballasson, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of House of Justice and principal partner of Mive Legals. The judgement was delivered today by Honourable Justice Esther Lolo of the Kaduna state High court. While delivering her judgement, justice Esther read that “The court held that the applicant has shown sufficient material to proved that her fundamental rights to life, liberty, thought and right…
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(Being the Keynote address by the President of the 100 IGBOS USA, INC at the 4-day Conference of the IGBO USA in Diaspora with Ohanaeze Leadership, Held in Chicago, May 11-14, 2017. With the Theme: (EBEE KA ND’IGBO N’EJE?) Protocols It gives me great pleasure to welcome our august Visitors, the President-General of Ohanaeze Nd’Igbo and his Delegation of the Executive Committee of the Ohanaeze. In times past, we would have been asking our Visitors how the home people are doing but technology has reduced the whole World to one global village now and so we are as acquainted…
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South-East South-South Network (SESSNet) is a civic action organization comprised of persons from Nigeria’s South-East and South-South, and focused on creating and sustaining a critical mass of the population to champion the quest for justice, equity, and good governance in a restructured Nigeria. In furtherance of its enshrined objectives, SESSNet has engaged in continuous understudying, monitoring and evaluation of the prevailing geo-political and socio-economic environment which manifests in the injustice and maladministration that besets the South-East and South-South region with a view to highlighting such issues, proffering solutions to them and forestalling repeats of actions and events that have kept…
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NIgeria is sitting on a time bomb that may explode any time from now, Chief Albert Korubo Horsfall the first Director General of the National Intelligence Agency has warned. He said you do not solve problems by merely wishing them away or remaining silent on burning issues that have given rise to agitation by separatist groups. He cited an instance with the issues raised in the ongoing agitation by the Indigenous People of Biafra which he said must be urgently and carefully looked into instead of wishing them away or sweeping them under the carpet. He stated this in an…
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The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, arranged the meeting between him, President Muhammadu Buhari and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara to douse tension in the country over the medical status of the president, an impeccable source said yesterday. Recall that the President before embarking on his medical follow-up trip met with Saraki and Dogara in the company of the Chief Staff, Abba Kyari, last Sunday. A source in National Assembly said the meeting was based on the suggestion of the Senate President. It was gathered that when Kyari contacted Saraki and informed him of the President’s trip,…
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First, let’s get one thing very clear here; Those asking Ndigbo to boycot the upcoming Anambra state gubernatorial election scheduled for November this year, are on the verge of leading the Igbo nation to political perdition. They are already enroute to Golgotha. I sincerely hope they are stopped before they reach ‘Calvary’ because then, the Igbo nation would already be on the cross and seeing as we are not Jesus Christ, we would have no assurances of resurrecting on the 3 day. Boycotting the Anambra poll is tantamount to tying a political rope round the neck of Ndigbo and squeezing…
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The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has frowned at the exclusion of the South East in the Federal Government’s modernisation policy of railway projects in the country, describing the action as the height of injustice against Ndigbo. It’s President, Dr Nwodo spoke against the backdrop of the recent exclusion of the Eastern Rail line in President Muhammadu Buhari’s letter to the National Assembly, seeking its approval to borrow about $5. 185 billion (about N2.074 trillion) from China’s Exim Bank. Stressing that the Buhari- led government was unfair to Ndigbo, Nwodo said, “The letter to the National Assembly is a reminder and extension of…
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Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo (60) to the role of apostolic nuncio to Ireland, the first African priest to ever hold the diplomatic role in Ireland. The news was welcomed by Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin, “I warmly welcome the appointment by his Holiness Pope Francis of Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo as Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, and I wish him many blessings in his new role”. The position of Apostolic Nuncio is the papacy’s diplomatic representative in Ireland. “Archbishop Okolo’s rich experience in the diplomatic service of the Holy See means that he brings many gifts to…
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L-R Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Okorocha (Imo), Umahi (Ebonyi), Obiano (Anambra) and Ikpeazu (Abia) Governors of the South-east geo-political zone resolved recently to come up with a roadmap for the social, economic, political and security integration of their region, an initiative that could yet give the people a new sense of direction with a healthy competition, writes Christopher Isiguzo The recent resolve by the five South-east governors to pursue an economic agenda that could help better the lives of the people of the region and Nigeria in general has suddenly brought a glimmer of hope for a people once celebrated, albeit notoriously…
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Protests for the release of Nnamdi Kanu in Aba, south-east Nigeria, in 2015 It has been nearly 50 years since Biafra’s bitter independence struggle, the inspiration for Frederick Forsyth’s bestselling The Dogs of War. Now a south London DJ currently imprisoned in Nigeria has taken up the battle, and Biafrans are once again fighting – and dying – for the dream of their own country Tucked between the bus garage and the Christ Miracle Gospel Ministries church, Sandlings Close is one of the more non-descript parts of Peckham. There are no gritty high-rise flats, no bearded hipsters running pop-up restaurants.…
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A man purporting to be a Boko Haram fighter said the Islamist militant group plans to bomb Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, in a video seen by Reuters on Saturday. “More bombs attacks are on the way, including Abuja that you feel is secured,” said the man in the video, which was obtained by Sahara Reporters, a U.S.-based journalism website, and Nigerian journalist Ahmad Salkida. Reuters could not immediately verify the authenticity of the video. The man spoke in the Hausa language widely used in northern Nigeria and held a rifle while flanked by four other armed men. Nigeria’s state security agency,…
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Governor Wike flags off dredging/sand filling and land reclamation in Abalama and Bakana towns Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has advised the All Progressives Congress (APC) to assume the responsibility of performance conferred on them by their victory during the 2015 Presidential election and desist from giving flimsy excuses. Governor Wike spoke on Friday while flagging off the dredging/sand filling and reclamation of Abalama in Asari-Toru Local Government Area and dredging/Sand filling and Reclamation of Bakana in Degema Local Government Area. The projects in Abalama and Bakana towns span 38 hectares. Governor Wike said that the Rivers State Government…
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The state governor accused of building a hotel with $3 million of the controversial London-Paris Club loan refund has sneaked into Aso Rock Presidential Villa in search of soft-landing. It was gathered yesterday that the embattled governor had in the last 48 hours been roaming the corridors of the Presidential Villa in desperate search for help. He was said to have offered to refund the balance of $2.5 million quietly to the EFCC without being further investigated, given that one of the proxies used to launder the funds had already surrendered $500,000 to the anti-graft agency. It was learnt that…
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No fewer than 26 private jets and four police and air force aircraft landed in Minna yesterday for the wedding of former President Ibrahim Babangida’s daughter. The aircraft conveyed various dignitaries to the wedding of Halima, the youngest daughter of Babangida, who got married to a Gombe businessman, Alhaji Auwal Abdullahi. The ceremony saw security beefed up around the Minna metropolis and the roads leading to the Top Hill mansion of Babangida as early as 7 am. Among the dignitaries at the occasion were former President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience; former head of state Abdulsalami Abubakar; chieftain of…
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A relative of one of the rescued Chibok girls, Peter Joseph, says the Federal Government has barred the girls from telling their parents or relatives about their experiences in Boko Haram captivity. Joseph said this during a programme on Al Jazeera titled, “The Stream. He said his niece was one of the 21 schoolgirls rescued in October 2016 while his sister is still in Boko Haram captivity. Joseph said over six months since their rescue, the schoolgirls had not been united with their families. He said in December last year, the girls were allowed to return to Chibok but were…
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A combined team of military troops, policemen and operatives of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have been drafted to the major roads of Biogbolo, Opolo and Okutukutu as the attack on Igbo residents and traders entered the second day in Bayelsa State. The attack, which started on Monday was triggered by the death of one Faith, 18, who was said to have been lured into a hotel by one Tochukwu who allegedly stabbed her while trying to cut off her breast. It was gathered that residents of the area were irked over the development and mobilised to attack…
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THE 2014 National Conference, tagged 2014 CONFAB set up by immediate past former President Goodluck Jonathan made some recommendations on how Nigeria can be restructured to achieve greater success as a nation. In continuation of the ongoing debate on restructuring we refresh your minds with some of the 620 recommendations of the Confab on restructuring. In a breezy manner, the conference touched virtually all aspects of the socio-economic and political challenges besetting the country such as resource control, fiscal federalism, devolution of power, creation of states, forms of government, revenue allocation, ethnic nationalities and minority question, and resolution of the…
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The people of Imo State made history on Saturday, May 6, 2017 and shocked the world. Imo people did not shock the world because Governor Okorocha gathered them to a place he chose to call Freedom Square for the 6th edition of Imo Freedom Day, a programme he created to commemorate the day he won the supplementary on May 6, 2011. Okorocha created this but killed the intelligent Ahiajoku programme, describing it as fetish. Some people have said that Okorocha does not like intellectual programmes because he would not catch up. Okorocha covered his disdain for intellectual programmes with the…
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