OBLONG MEDIA GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE is where independent minds meet to dissect politics, society, power, and global affairs without fear or filters. This is not mainstream media.
Posts
-
With each passing year, I get afraid. I am scared of the consequences of ignorance and apathy towards history exhibited by younger generations of Nigerians, especially the Igbo who were the victims of the Civil war. One may reincarnate to this part of the world after his first life to see villains honoured as heroes—simply out of ignorance. Historians call it “biographical revisionism”— a very dangerous thing that can eat away the fabrics of human integrity. February 13, 2017—few months ago—was the 41st anniversary of the murder of Murtala Muhammed in a bloody coup. After the January coup of 1966…
-
“POLITICIANS SHOULD LEAVE THE JUDICIARY ALONE. HOW CAN FOUR PERSONS WANT TO BE GOVERNOR OF ABIA STATE AT THE SAME TIME? IF WE DESTROY THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE JUDICIARY, THERE MAY NOT BE A COUNTRY CALLED NIGERIA. YOU WONT MANAGE YOUR AFFAIRS WELL AND YOU TURN AROUND TO PUT THE HEAT ON THE JUDICIARY. LET ME SAY THAT THERE WAS A SERIOUS SECURITY BREACH IN THIS MATTER. WE WILL INVESTIGATE IT. WHY WOULD ANYONE BE INTERESTED IN WHO IS WRITING WHICH JUDGMENT? WHAT IS YOUR BUSINESS WITH THAT? THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE WINNER AT A TIME”.
-
Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, on Friday, decried an attempt by some unnamed people to attempt to influence the judgement of the Supreme Court over the governorship tussle between Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and Mr. Uche Ogah, who was attempting to unseat him. He did in a post-judgement comments, where he warned Nigerians to stop trying to corrupt judges, as it would not augur well for the justice delivery of the country, which would in turn threaten its peace and security. Though he did not name those involved, Onnoghen, who described the incident as a “security breach,” narrated…
-
Since Tuesday, May 9, 2017, Nigerians who have reacted to the news that ailing President Muhammadu Buhari omitted to mention that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will be an acting president in his letters to the National Assembly on his departure on indefinite medical leave. The president wrote that Professor Osinbajo would be “co-ordinating” national affairs in his absence, the use of words indicating insecurities by his inner cabinet. Femi Fani-Kayode, a prominent thought leader in Nigeria, has reacted to this confusing omission by the ailing president by saying that denying Osinbajo his constitutional right to play the role of acting…
-
Abba Kyari is to the left of the President Several high-ranking sources at the Presidency confirmed to SaharaReporters that the decision to use the phrase, “the Vice President will coordinate the activities of the Government,” instead of expressing what the Constitution stipulates, that the Vice President becomes “Acting President” with the transmission of the letter, was singularly taken by Mr. Kyari. President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, has been named as the architect of the president’s controversial letter to the National Assembly informing legislators that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was to be the “coordinator” of government activities during…
-
Detectives have traced $ 3 million of the controversial London-Paris Club loan refund to a yet unnamed governor, it was learnt yesterday. The cash is believed to be part of the N19billion illegally deducted from the refund by the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), according to Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) sources. The cash has been found in the account of a member of the House of Representatives who got it through a proxy, the lawmaker’s brother. Both were not available for comments. The $3million is being spent on building a 100-room hotel in Lagos, which the governor may forfeit…
-
Ahead of 2019 general elections, five political associations parties have successfully scaled the hurdles of registration into political parties set by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC). A source at the Commission revealed that among the lucky political parties is the much touted mega party, Action Democratic Party, (ADP). Others are , ADPM, NGP, APDA, and YPP. It was gathered that INEC’s Director of Voters’ Education and Publicity, Mr. Oluwole Osage-Uzi had last April disclosed that that 16 of the 91 associations had paid the statutory fee of N1 million while 12 of them were undergoing verification. Investigation reveals that…
-
The National Assembly Thursday passed the 2017 Appropriation Bill, more than four months after it was submitted to it by President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari presented the budget documents to a joint session of the National Assembly on December 14, 2016. Both chambers of the assembly raised the figure from N7.30 trillion presented by the president to N7.44 trillion. In separate sessions, both chambers of the assembly approved the Bill with the same figure, which represented an increase of about N143 billion from the amount proposed by the president, after harmonising their reports. At the senate, the passage of the Bill…
-
• Yakassai, Mohammed, Momoh urge caution The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) yesterday vowed to confront any group calling for the break up of Nigeria. Besides, the forum backed “genuine” restructuring of the nation, adding that the north was never at any time opposed to the move.The warning may have been informed by some developments at the seat of power, Aso Rock, which the group described as “attempts to exploit the absence of the president to achieve dubious political goals.” One of these goals is suspected to be the restructuring of the polity. NEF maintained that the ship of state must…
-
In responses the germane queries raised by Azuka Onwuka in his piece titled “Nigeria must decide what they want from Igbo” and bearing in mind the referenced paradigm of the Singaporean experience in Malaysia, I will want to contend, in this era of better established global Protocols on Self-Determination, that it is Igbo that must decide what it will do with itself and with Nigeria. I note that the prevailing global Self-determination Protocols in the days of the Singaporean expulsion from Malaysia as well as the 1967-1970 Biafra War of Independence, were significantly different from what they are now. I…
-
This brilliant piece by Gani Kayode Jr Balogun might give you a better understanding of Dinogate Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria started its existence as a regional university, just like its contemporaries, University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, ile Ife, established by the government of Western Region, and the deceitfully named University of Nigeria, Nsukka, established by the Eastern Regional government. Please remember that as at that period, the only University in the country, the University College, Ibadan, was then just a University College, whose admission policy and curriculum were closely tied to its parent university in the UK. So,…
-
“The world is dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it” -Albert Einstein. The demand for restructure of Nigeria and a new constitution, which is being fiercely opposed by prominent northern politicians raise grave concern for the future of Nigeria. The opposition ignores the fact that it is self-determination borne out of years of injustice, arrogance, exploitation, domination and intransigence, of the north. It is a change in the way Nigeria is governed, whose time has come. It can neither be delayed nor differed. No…
-
There is no doubt that the Igbo race is the single largest group in Nigeria comparable only to the Nile valley in terms of population density. Yet it is the avowed goal of certain forces in Nigeria especially among the Hausa/Fulani establishment to wipe out the Igbo from the face of the earth. This evil desire did not begin today. It is a command rooted in history and otiose religious injunctions. But as the saying goes: There is no killing the beetle! As a group of people, created and ordained by God Almighty, no person or group in Nigeria is…
-
The relative peace in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, which enabled Nigeria to produce about 2 million barrels of crude oil per day in recent months is seriously being threatened, following the cancellation of three oil blocks won by indigenes of the region in the 2007 bid round by the Federal Government. The three oil blocks had for eight years been stalled by litigation until it was resolved in 2015. It was learnt that President Muhammadu Buhari was proded into the revocations of the oil blocks by the leadership of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Nigerian Petroleum…
-
OFFICIAL JAMB GRADING SYSTEM FOR 2017/2018 ADMISSION…. FROM OUR SOURCE. JAMB SCORE GRADE POINTS 180 – 185 ——–20 points 186 – 190——–21points 191 -195———22points 196 – 200——–23points 201 – 205——–24points 206 – 210——–25 points 211 – 215——–26 points 216 -220———27 points 221 -225——–28 points 226 -23———-29 points 231 -23———-30 points 236 – 240——–31 points 241 – ———32 points 246 -25———-33 points 251 -300—- (34- 43points) 300 -40——-(44 – 60 points) WAEC / NECO O’LEVEL GRADE POINTS 1. Single sitting— 10 points 2. Combined Results–2 points A1—————–6 points B2 and B3———4 points C4 – C6———–3 points For example Yakubu Kehinde Obinna scored…
-
While you gyrate and pop champagne over ‘release’ of ‘Chibok girls’ try also to use that portion of your head called brain and answer the following: 1. Who made the clothes the girls wore to meet PMB? When where they made and who paid for them? 2. Where exactly were the girls moved from? within Nigeria or outside the borders? 3, If Sambisa, noted by so many as the home of BH, was captured long ago leading to a tour by Oby Ezekwsili and BBOG, and neither her team nor the military that overan Sambisa could sight any of the…
-
Breaking news alert: Breaking news alert: WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired FBI Director James Comey in a shock development, saying Comey was no longer able to effectively lead the agency. “It is essential that we find new leadership for the FBI that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission,” he said in a letter to Comey released by the White House. REUTERS
-
Anybody that is not happy that 82 Chibok girls were released must be a monster whose humanity should be called into question. I thank God that these girls have been released and I commend the Federal Government for the feat of ensuring that these girls are reunited with their families. May God bless President Muhammadu Buhari for providing the leadership that enabled this to happen. Having said that, there are some factual observations I want to raise. What you are about to read is completely devoid of any opinion. I am just stating facts. You may not like the facts.…
-
When an individual dies, in matter of hours, all arguments as to to whether death has occurred or not end. When a Company dies, it may take several months or to manifest fully, especially when Liquidators and Receivers move in. In the case of Country, referred to as “State Demise”, in may take several years or even decades to be so manifest as to become indubitable. The defunct Soviet Union died for almost 28 years before little Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania bolted off to their Independence. Only then did it dawn on Ukraine, Georgia, Uzbekistan and 9 others, that Moscow…
-
It is now clear that, these guys will never let the power slip, no matter the cost Last minute chamber maneuvering by the Senate leadership, Tuesday saved President Muhammadu’s letter from being returned to him. The letter was the official communication to the Senate informing the Senators of his medical leave to the United Kingdom which the wordings were faulted by the Senators as being defective. But the timely intervention of the Senate leader who advised his colleagues to ignore the wordings which described the new role of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as that of the Coordinating Vice President and…
-
Capital Oil and Gas Limited, owned by businessman, Ifeanyi Ubah has alleged that the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) owes it N16 billion. The company stated this in reaction to the arrest and detention of its chairman, Ubah by the Department of State Security (DSS) for what the agency said was based on his involvement in alleged stealing, diversion and illegal sale of petroleum products stored in his tank farm. But in a statement released on Monday, the management of the company denied the accusation, adding, that it is an attempt to criminalise a commercial dispute between the company and…
-
Before August 9, 1965, the Singaporeans were seen as an irritation in Malaysia. Then Singapore was one of the 14 states of Malaysia. Singaporeans were viewed as arrogant, stubborn, and domineering. While the United Malays National Organisation wanted affirmative action or “quota system” for the Malays, the People’s Action Party of the Singaporeans insisted that the best thing for the country was a merit-based policy on all issues, so as to bring out the best in the nation and create a spirit of excellence. This constant disagreement and tension resulted in race riots. It got to a point where the…
-
The Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division, has upheld the legality of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry established by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, to probe the sale of valued asset by the immediate past administration of Chibuike Amaechi in the state. The Appeal Court in a lead judgment by Justice O. F. Omoleye also held that the Rivers State House of Assembly has the power to make the Commission of Inquiry Law (CAP 30) under which Governor Wike established the Judicial Commission of Inquiry. Delivering judgment on Suit Number CA/PH/342/2015, the court in a unanimous decision dismissed the…
-
Though the report of the three man Presidential Committee that investigated the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal and the Director-General, Nigerian Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ayo Oke is yet to be made public, both men still stand suspended, a Presidency source has said. Investigations on Monday night revealed that the Chairman of the Committee, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who is incidentally acting on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari who, Sunday night, left Abuja for London to seek medical attention, would not take any soft discretionary measure that may exonerate Lawal and Oke. Findings also indicated that…
-
“The recent claim of the release by so-called vanquished Boko Haram terrorists of 82 hitherto kidnapped Chibok school girls and the constant release from detentions of detained Boko Haram terror suspects by the military authorities without the office of the Federal Attorney General subjecting them to criminal prosecution over the four year-long bombing campaigns that slaughtered over 30,000 innocent Nigerians are clear evidences that there are more to the whole Boko Haram scenarios than meets the eyes”. Making the above submission is the Pro-democracy and Non-Governmental organisation- Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA) which has also for the umpteenth…
-
The emergence of APC as the ruling party in Nigeria via the north west alliance was predictable. What was not known is the extent to which the alliance would be anti Igbo and how far Buhari’ ethnic prejudice would be compel him to punish us. It is not unusual in a multi-ethnic democracy for two or ethnic groups to Align to gain power. What is unique about the Buhari led APC is extent it is has deviated from norms by violating the constitution, disregard the rule of law and pursue sectarian agenda. It is the targeting of Igbos for punishment…
-
We, the Chiefs, Elders and Representatives of Eastern Nigeria, gathered at this Joint meeting of the Advisory Committee of Chiefs and Elders and the Consultative Assembly do solemnly declare as follows: Whereas we have been in the vanguard of the national movement for the building of a strong, united and prosperous Nigeria where no man will be oppressed and have devoted our efforts, talents and resources to this end; Whereas we cherish certain inalienable human rights and state obligations such as the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness; the right to acquire, possess and defend property; the provision…
-
I’ve been mostly absent from the discourse on this platform for mostly benign reasons. Just took a little break to get some things in place. But honestly, this posting from our respectable Odenigbo elder, Chief KIK is one of the most carefully crafted uncharitable submission on Nnamdi Kanu and what he represents or anybody by the way. As much as one might be tempted to remain ambivalent in this type of issue, the submission is too weighty that keeping quiet simply gives the impression of tacit approval or endorsement, which is far from being the case because our Elder may…
-
Secret American diplomatic dispatches, spread over 21,000 pages, provide previously unknown information about the Nigerian Civil War Early in the morning of 1 July 1967, Nigeria’s young head of state, Colonel Yakubu Gowon, was feeling uneasy in his office at the Supreme Headquarters, Dodan Barracks in Lagos. The unease was a result of his being ceaselessly pressured to authorize a military invasion of the breakaway Republic of Biafra. Thirty officers had been recalled from courses abroad. Trains and truck convoys, bearing fuel, supplies and men, were still leaving Kano and Kaduna for the south of River Benue. Colonel Mohammed Shuwa…
-
Confidential US dispatches on the Nigerian Civil War yield a wounding portrait of Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who was painted by those who knew him as a man that experienced rejection as a child, a megalomaniac, demagogue and one who once threatened to shoot his own father In a broadcast to the German people on BayerischerRundfunkMuchen (Bavarian Broadcasting, Munich) on 11 September 1967, Klaus W. Stephan, the West African correspondent of the service for many years, said Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu had harboured an ambition to “alter the political constellation of power in Nigeria by means of the army one day”. Ojukwu,…
-
The cliche’ “the more you look, the less you see was exactly what played out at the Presidential Villa, Abuja as Journalists covering President Muhammadu Buhari and his official activities were literary barred from covering his meeting with the released 82 Chibok girls. With the official statement from the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu on Saturday that the girls freed on the same day would be formally received by the president on Sunday, State House correspondents set out early for the event. Time for the reception was originally 4pm but the Journalists…
-
The Southern Mandate, a forum of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change (CPC) members, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari, to consider former national chairman, Chief Tony Momoh or Eng. Buba Galadima as the next Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). According to them, any of the duo would be a perfect replacement for the suspended incumbent, Babachir Lawal. The forum, which has its membership in the 17 southern States, made the call in a statement on Sunday signed by its national coordinator, Comrade Ikonomwan Francis. While urging Buhari to drop the embattled SGF to face prosecution, they said…
-
•Incorporates principle of first refusal for first term president, governors •Governors on edge as new party limits influence on election The mainstream of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP aligned to the Senator Ahmed Makarfi led National Caretaker Committee, NCC is set to trigger the alternative option for political survival by fusing into the Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance, APDA. The APDA according to news reports on Friday was one of five political associations that got the nod of the Election and Party Monitoring Department of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to formalise its registration with the Commission. Sources disclosed that…
-
Let me start by categorically asserting that the Buhari presidency ended months ago. What we are currently experiencing is a Deja Vu of the Yaradua situation. Sadly, there is no Dora Akunyili to save Nigeria in the real sense of the word. Even sadder is the fact that the bunch of soulless hypocrites like Pastor Tunde Bakare, Father Ejike Mbaka, Femi Falana etc who pretended saving Nigeria years ago have all gone deaf, dumb and blind now that Nigeria is in dire need of saving. First, Buhari got back from extended medical tourism abroad where he spent 50 days, yet,…
-
For obvious reasons, I had refrained from reacting to the Odenigbo incisive and damning piece above. Happily, the responses so far especially those from Jude Ndukwe, Chris Maduka, have done a good measure of justice to the Odenigbo piece. My only addition to the fittingly excoriating ripostes, would be as follows: (i) That the author “Odenigwe” deemed it necessary to conceal his identity, is by itself, instructive. That is the first indictment because whatever may be his/her reasons for concealing his/her identity, it is obvious that he/she fears to take responsibility for the piece and so, hides under the darkness…
-
Nigeria’s National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, has said he informed President Muhammadu Buhari about the National Intelligence Agency’s covert operation that went awry with the discovery of over N13 billion in an apartment in Lagos last month. It has also been confirmed that Mr. Monguno knew about the covert operation, took part in its gradual advancement and expressed the satisfaction of not only himself but that of the president over the diligence and professionalism of the NIA personnel executing the intelligence projects. “Detailed brief of this exercise was rendered to the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces who expressed…
-
Fellow Campers the largest country in Africa that the United Kingdom colonised is Nigeria. The largest country that the United Kingdom colonised in Asia is India (which then comprised the present Pakistan and Bangladesh….i.e Hindustan). When the UK came into Nigeria and India, like all other countries they colonised, they brought along their technology, religion (Christianity), and culture: names, dressing, …food, and language, among others. Try as hard as the British did, India rejected the British religion, names, dressing, food, and even language, but they did not reject the British technology. Today, 80.5 per cent of Indians are Hindus; 13.4…
-
I was with the federalist group yesterday. I told them I have nothing against any call for change, but that I believed in the IPOB movement. Well, we all went to distribute the stickers and flyers of the federalist movement. We covered the Rumuola axis and felt the pulse of Nigerians, especially drivers, traders, and everyone on the move. Nigerians in Port Harcourt made it clear to us that SECESSION is what they need, not RESTRUCTURING. The head of the Federalist Movement, Tony Osborg, whose book I edited some years ago, had to call me to explain the relation between…
-
“Power is like a shadow. It resides exactly where men who are under its control think it resides” The above is true with regards to the situation of Southerners in the Nigerian experiment. We think the Fulanis are the ones that have been holding power and because we think and believe so, it actually look so. Because of this assumed knowledge, we hand over our destinies, our future and those of our children to a people who are not above 11 million, have little or no education and contribute little or nothing to the national pulse. What if I told…
-
With all due respect to the author, the above referred piece is nothing but an unreasonable and grossly unfair comparison and characterisation of Nnamdi Kanu and his struggle. Whoever wrote this piece has a deep dislike of Nnamdi Kanu as a person, his strategy and the fact that he has become the most popular and respected man among the teeming masses of Ndigbo. How can any sound mind compare the circumstances of the inprisonment of Nnamdi Kanu with that of Mandela? Did Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB undertake an armed struggle? What is the substance of the treason charges against…
-
Three decades ago, January 31, 1985, to be exact, in faraway South Africa, something happened. The State President of the then apartheid South Africa, Pieta Willem Botha, speaking in parliament, offered the then imprisoned Nelson Mandela his freedom on condition that he ‘unconditionally reject violence as a political weapon’. This would not be the first time Botha would make this offer to Mandela; in fact, it would be the sixth of such offer. There had been earlier ones that required that Mandela accept exile in the Transkei as a condition for freedom. What was unique about this sixth offer, however,…
-
“And the search for a credible Igbo leader continues” Yes, that was how a faceless ODENIGBO ended his disquisition on the widely acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, who, incidentally, is now seen as the new and courageous face of the Igbo people’s struggles for freedom from oppression, tyranny and internal colonialism as evidenced in today’s Nigeria. Unfortunately, these struggles have always been put out, or, to sound less pessimistic, doused in “Judastic” style by the very same people leaders of the struggle have entered dangerous trenches for, all because they are afraid “one small…
-
“The buildings you are talking about are of no economic value and more than 80 per cent of them are substandard structures and are not under use. Even if you want to count buildings as achievement, let the governor tell us how many buildings he has erected with the N982 billion revenue he has collected in six years, since he is a builder. How much of that went to the building of his Eastern Palm University in his family compound in Ogboko. What did he build with the N26.6 billion I handed over to him? Since he is a builder,…
-
Isaac Okorafor, acting director of Corporate Communications, Central Bank of Nigeria, explains why the bank will not yield to pressure to float the Naira or unban 41 items from Forex market as it will affect the farmers and the poor people in the rural areas. TWO years after the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, blacklisted 41 items from accessing foreign exchange from its official window, the apex bank is under severe pressure to abolish the policy. But the CBN had said that if it abolishes the the policy it means that the bank would allow importers of those items which…
-
Igboland is an ethnocultural region in the present-day southeastern Nigeria. It differs from the South East Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria in that it encompasses both the zone and other adjoining territories of the eponymous Igbo ethnic group. With an estimated 35 million inhabitants, it is comparable to the US state of California in population and would be the 12th most populous country in Africa were it independent, surpassing the likes of Ghana, Angola, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Senegal and Zambia. A repository of natural resources, including coal, natural gas, petroleum and arable land, in addition to its wealth of human capital,…
-
With the deterioration in the national polity, the temptation is for people to retreat into ethnic enclaves. This is usually the first step in societal disintegration. I will say it again, we need to play above board politics and avoid narrow minded, ethnic and self interest focused politics. This is why it is important that people are allowed the freedom that the law still allow them, no matter how polarised the society. While it is important to be clear about the type of society we want as a people, I continue to say that it is imperative that people are…
-
The issue is the fear of the X factor, which Senator Ike Ekweremadu seems to represent. He is a man who has defied many improbable odds and emerged stronger and still waxing. His return to the 8th Senate against all predictions, and more surprisingly, emerging as deputy senate president caught the bookmakers napping. His political future is so bright that his detractors are now more apprehensive than ever before. He operates like a man whose destiny is ironed to a future, which the gods themselves appear to be covetously guarding and guiding. A careful examination of what is afoot at…
-
Since the end of the Nigeria civil war in 1970, the federal Republic of Nigeria has operated a policy of systematic marginalisation and discrimination against Igbos. First Igbos with money in the bank before the war were given only twenty pound £20.00, irrespective of the amount they have in the bank. Second, properties belonging to Igbos in many parts of Nigeria were declared abandoned properties and confiscated. Third, the federal government instead of pursuing a policy of reintegration and redevelopment, instituted a policy of discrimination and marginalisation. This agenda by the Nigerian establishment to impoverish marginalise and keep Igbos down…
-
The Association of Senior Civil Servants, ASCSN, of Nigeria has resolved to proceed with an indefinite strike if the federal government does not address the non-payment of their N200 billion promotion, salaries and death remunerations. The National Executive Council, NEC, of the association, made the resolution during its meeting in Abuja on Wednesday. They also agreed to picket the Ministry of Finance and the Budget Office, which the workers believe, are sabotaging the swift directives by President Muhammadu Buhari to release funds to pay several arrears owed them. The verdict of the association’s executive council was disclosed to journalists by…
-
You can now transfer your polling unit to any place of choice that is convenient for you. 1. Following consultations with political parties, civil society organizations and the media, the commission convened a special meeting today with the Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) and Administrative Secretaries (ASs) from the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to finalise its preparations for the commencement of the nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise. Specifically, the meeting considered the methodology, modalities and effective date for the commencement of the exercise nationwide. 2. Arising from the meeting, the Commission has decided…
-
Excerpts from chapter one of Facts Versus Fiction: (The True Story of Jonathan Years, Chibok, 2015 and The Conspiracies) Culled from Goodluck Jonathan This is not the full chapter. It is an excerpt. It will be continued tomorrow and on subsequent days until the chapter is concluded. Facts Versus Fiction: (The True Story of Jonathan Years, Chibok, 2015 and The Conspiracies) by Reno Omokri will be released on the second week of July 2017. Chapter 1 – THE CONSPIRACY TO REMOVE JONATHAN The recent revelations from Segun Adeniyi’s book, Against the Run of Play: How an incumbent president was defeated…
-
Modern-day Lagos was founded by Prince Ado, the son of the Oba of Benin, Prince Ado was the First Oba of Lagos, the son of the Bini King, Prince Ado, named the town Eko until the Portuguese explorer Ruy de Segueira changed the Maritime town to Lagos, which at that time from 1942 was Portuguese expedition center down the African Coast. It was a major center of the slave trade until 1851. Lagos was annexed by Britain via the Lagos treaty of cession in 1861, ending the consular period and starting the British Colonial Period. The remainder of Modern-day Nigeria…
-
Born on March 8 1957 at Creek Hospital, Lagos, Yemi is a professor of law and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. He is married to Oludolapo Osinbajo (nee Soyode), grand daughter of the late sage and statesman, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. They are blessed with three children. Education Yemi’s early years in primary school were spent at Corona School Lagos. Between 1969- 1975, he attended Igbobi College, Yaba where he was the winner of the State Merit Award (1971); the School Prize for English Oratory (1972); Adeoba Prize for English Oratory (1972-1975); Elias Prize for Best Performance in History (WASC, 1973);…
-
Strong indications have emerged from the presidential villa that ailing Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari is set to make world record by seriously considering resignation as the president of the country due to his inability to effectively pilot the affairs of the country as a result of ill health. The meeting by three former military Heads of State Generals Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalam Abubakar in Minna, Niger state on Tuesday was to consider two strong burning issues before allowing President Buhari to turn in his resignation letter to the National Assembly. The three former leaders who met in Minna…
-
When the LNC describes Nigeria as a Rogue Joint Venture between the British and the Caliphate who are the Local Agents cum enforcers for the Criminal Enterprise that goes by the codename “Nigeria”, some of our Compatriots dismiss it and say we imagine and exaggerate things. Here it is, straight from the horse’s mouth. There is Nigeria. There is One-Nigeria. Many of our people do not understand the grave differences between the two and therefore the dire consequences concomitant. Nigeria was the Federation of Consensus we had up till 1966 but which collapsed completely with the overthrow and jettisoning of…
-
It will be a serious indictment on every Imo citizen to allow Okorocha to succeed himself in 2019. A paper presented to the Nigerian Union of Journalist (NUJ) Imo State Council by Hon Uche Onyeagucha at the 2017 World Press Freedom Day this 3rd day of May 2017 at the NUJ Press Center, Port Harcourt Road, Owerri INTRODUCTION: Critical minds are minds that tend to discover faults with something, somebody or with people and things in general. Critical times refer to extremely important for the fact of being or happening at a time of special difficulty, trouble or danger, when…
-
Strong indications have emerged from the presidential villa that ailing Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari is set to make world record by seriously considering resignation as the president of the country due to his inability to effectively pilot the affairs of the country as a result of ill health. The meeting by three former military Heads of State Generals Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalam Abubakar in Minna, Niger state on Tuesday was to consider two strong burning issues before allowing President Buhari to turn in his resignation letter to the National Assembly. The three former leaders who met in Minna…
-
The Caliphate locked the whole of Nigeria into a Master-Servant Union via the instrumentality of the Caliphate-Decreed and fraudulently-imposed 1999 Constitution. The Countrywide Debates and Disputations pushing for the Grand Renegotiation of these enslaving and debilitating Constitutional Impositions, had been couched as a Campaign for “Restructuring”. There is a clear Consensus on that Restructuring by the Non-Caliphate rest of Nigeria which translates itself to the Grand Renegotiation of the Terms of the totally dysfunctional and unworkable Nigeria’s inverted Federation, which must be undertaken without further delay. An overwhelming majority in Eastern Nigeria, particularly the younger generation that were not combatants…
-
Shehu Sani, chairman senate ad hoc committee on humanitarian crisis in the north-east, says the Presidential Initiative on North-East (PINE) spent N50 million on two conferences but gave N2 million to internally displaced persons (IDPs). PINE was coordinated by the office of Babachir Lawal, suspended secretary to the government of the federation. While presenting the final report of the committee which probed PINE, Sani said all the companies awarded contracts were not qualified, and that some of the organisations were incorporated for the sake of contracts. He said of the 39 companies given contracts by PINE, only eight letters were…
-
THE fourth and last group of Igbos,where the present author belongs to, are those that believe that Nigeria is facing a national question. That this national question is the most critical problem facing the country today which, depending on how it is handled, can either rebuild or destroy her; that the best solution to this national question should only proceed from its understanding in terms of nationalities, without this being a disregard for the economic, political and constitutional palliatives that could impact upon the major variable. By acknowledging the national question, Nigerians would be well-placed to achieve a stable constitutive…
-
THE cumulative effect of all these atrocities is that everywhere today there is anger. Ideology, vision, competence, genuine love for country and people, as well as humanism; not even age, gender, tribe or religion, is what determines good leadership, and promotes development. Instead of everyone pleading to the Igbos to kindly come and show if there is a difference they could make in economic management and restoration of individual wellbeing and national pride, all we hear is that Igbos would be lucky if they are president in two hundred years. In other words, Nigerians will be lucky if anything good…
-
After waiting in vain for sixty fruitless years after Biafra, what the Igbos see in Nigeria is a country that probably have another chance to be a united and peaceful. What they need and want for the country now, is the ultra-modernisation and reopening for full commercial use by the Igbo nation and others, of the Igbo ports of Port Harcourt, Bonny, and Opobo; their road, rail and air links to inland Igbo commercial centres of Agbor, Asaba, Onitsha, Nnewi, Owerri, Enugu, Azumini and Aba and, by so doing, the economic and financial re-empowerment of the Igbos, starting with the…
-
Writing about the needs of the Igbos or Igbo aspirations, whether in terms of what would make the Igbos happy (or unhappy), is not a difficult thing in any manner. For practically all the issues are already in the public domain, and repeated one way or the other almost every day. What, perhaps, the Nigerian or international community needs to know are the essential details of these issues, whose appreciation ought to assist their resolution to a reasonable level of satisfaction. The Igbos being a major, albeit presently sidelined stakeholder in the Nigeria project, a proper and just resolution of…
-
THE second group is some Igbo politicians, social climbers, sundry careerists, former corrupt officials, and known or concealed agents of various anti-Igbo parties. These people have bought into the concept of restructuring, even though they initially seemed uncertain what it meant. What they claim the Igbos want is a reorganised polity, of which the Igbos would have to be in the “East,” the Yorubas in the West, the Southern minorities in the South-South, and the North with their own three zones. Alternatively or simultaneously, they demand an additional state in the East to equal or nearly equal those in the…
-
A fashion of the visitant six geo-politicians used to plead for an Igbo president, without letting it known whether or not it is tied to the restructuring, how related to Igbo wellbeing that would be, or just another means of advancing their business interests or achieving the Igbo quota of federal corruption in Nigeria, which they have since 1970 been imposing on helpless Igbo masses at the state and local government levels, unrestrained by anyone. Because of this ideological confusion, they hardly say much, if anything, about the Igbo condition and Nigerian sufferings, since to them to be an…
-
Following the controversy that surrounds the ill health of President Muhammadu Buhari, Facts that have emerged from a meeting between three former Nigeria Leaders, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, General Ibrahim Babangida and General Abdulsalami Abubakar in Minna, Niger State, have revealed that the trio are concerned about the true nature of President Muhammdu Buhari’s health. A prominent newspaper reported that the three former Presidents have decided to pay a visit to the President Buhari to ascertain the true state of his health. President Obasanjo and General Abdulsalami would go for the visit because General Babangida’s state of health will not allow…
-
‘Presidency of Nigeria belongs to the North whether Buhari lives or dies’ The day before yesterday we were told by the First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, that her husband was not as ill as most of us believed and that despite his obvious challenges he has continued to “carry out his responsibilities”. On the same day, the media went to great lengths to convince us, without providing any pictures, that the President had resumed work and that he had had a series of fruitful and productive meetings with his Minister of Justice and the Managing Director of the Nigerian National…
-
Nigerians have never shown such level of patience and tolerance towards any of their past leaders for his record and strange policies as that shown to their current leader, Muhammadu Buhari – a former military dictator now self-confessed democrat who said he came to fight corruption. Buhari, 75, is being plagued with failures across every single sector in the economy, the like as has never been seen before. Less than a year into office, the economy plummeted into recession, an economy which had till then grown at an average rate of 7% in previous years (2011-2014). The nation’s currency lost…
-
PRESS RELEASE: We the illustrious Umunna and Umuada of ndi igbo join other notable Nigerians to welcome our eminent and noteworthy son, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who was recently granted bail after much hasseles and tussles. We welcome the smooth perfection of the bail despite the stringent conditions attached to the bail which have also been questioned by many Nigerians and seems to be an infringement of the fundmental human rights of Mazi Kanu. Also, we are hopeful that his colleagues Mazi Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Mazi Benjamin Madubugwu and Mazi Nwawuisi to also…
-
President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to arrive for a weekly cabinet meeting on Wednesday, This is the president’s third consecutive absence in a row. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo chaired the start of the session, which was open to the media. Buhari has been resting after treatment of an unspecific illness. More Details to follow…
-
Former President, Goodluck Jonathan has replied his critics who accused him of handing over a nation at the verge of collapse to his successor, President Muhammadu Buhari. Jonathan recounted the achievements of his government to include, handing over a country that produced the richest man in Africa. Jonathan said, “I took over a Nigeria that was the second largest economy in Africa with a GDP of $270.5 billion in 2009, I handed over a Nigeria that had grown to become the largest economy in Africa and the 24th largest economy in the World with a GDP of $574 billion. “I…
-
• Stakeholders seek action on 2014 confab report South West delegates to the 2014 National Conference organised by former President Goodluck Jonathan have demanded that the 2019 general elections should be conducted on the basis of a new and truly federal constitution. They maintained it was the yearning of the people from the zone. After a reunion yesterday in Abuja, the leaders said the implementation of the report was the irreducible minimum to move Nigeria forward and build a nation that works for the citizenry. In a statement signed by their chairman, deputy and secretary, Chief Olu Falae, Alani Akinrinade…
-
The Federal Government of Nigeria’ indebtedness to China stood at $3.22bn at the end of December 2016, according to a report released on Tuesday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). This is part of the total foreign debt stock of both the federal and state government which was put at $11.41bn by the bureau. The domestic debt of the two tiers of government stood at N14.02trn at the end of December 2016. A breakdown of the foreign debt shows that $7.99bn was multilateral; $198.25m was bilateral (ADB) and $3.22bn from the Exim Bank of China credited to the Federal…
-
On the report of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s panel investigating the suspended Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), David Babachir Lawal and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayo Oke, The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has affirmed that the panel would submit its report today. When asked about the progress of the panel after his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday, he said: “Well, you know the presidential committee that is investigating the NIA and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation…
-
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said a major challenge with the anti-corruption drive of the Federal Government is the lack of successful prosecution of high-profile corruption cases involving ‘Politically-Exposed Persons’. Obasanjo added that despite the efforts of successive governments, corruption still posed a challenge to the progress and development of Nigeria The former President said this while delivering an inaugural lecture organised by the National Open University of Nigeria, in Abuja, on Tuesday. The lecture was titled, “Leadership, Governance, and the Challenges of Development in Nigeria: The Way forward.” Obasanjo, who admitted that Nigeria’s poverty and seeming lack of direction…
-
Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex socio-political association of the Igbo, rose from a meeting in Enugu on Tuesday with a declaration that Nigeria was not the North’s conquered territory. Ohanaeze, which condemned the northern leaders’ opposition to calls for the restructuring of Nigeria, insisted that “all sections of the country are joint and equal partners.” Addressing journalists after a National Executive Committee meeting at Ohanaeze Secretariat in Enugu, the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, said northern leaders were acting as if Nigeria was their conquered territory. Ohanaeze was particularly miffed at the rejection of the recommendations of the…
-
Below is a comprehensive list of all Nigerian Tribes and the States where they live. . . 1 Abayon -Cross River 2 Abua (Odual) -Rivers 3 Achipa (Achipawa) -Kebbi 4 Adim -Cross River 5 Adun -Cross River 6 Affade -Yobe 7 Afizere -Plateau 8 Afo -Plateau 9 Agbo -Cross River 10 Akaju-Ndem (Akajuk) -Cross River 11 Akweya-Yachi -Benue 12 Alago (Arago) -Piateau 13 Amo -Plateau 14 Anaguta -Plateau 15 Anang -Akwa lbom 16 Andoni -Akwa lbom, Rivers 17 Angas -Bauchi, Jigawa, Plateau 18 Ankwei -Plateau 19 Anyima -Cross River 20 Attakar (ataka) -Kaduna 21 Auyoka (Auyokawa) -Jigawa 22 Awori -Lagos,…
-
By way of a minor clarification to comments suggesting the contrary, let me state here that the illicit, unspoken understandings around the Oil and Gas Reserves in Nigeria, between the roguish British Government of the time and the criminally Junta of Yakubu Gowon/Murtala Mohammed that erected itself as “The Federal Government of Nigeria”, not only preceded the War but was in fact the main Objective of the British- guided Federal side of the War. As a matter of fact, it was the idea of the British, driven by oily considerations, to forcefully keep the collapsed Federation of Nigeria One because…
-
May 1, 2017 The founding National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) Chief Bisi Akande has urged Nigerians to pray fervently for President Muhammadu Buhari’s health. The health of the leader is intricately intertwine with the health of the Nation. It is more so in a delicately fragile Union of Nations called Nigeria. I did not see President Buhari at the wedding of his grand son in Kaduna last Saturday. I was sad and I wept. When last we met at the wedding of his daughter in Abuja last December, I complained to him that I was not happy…
-
Discordant tunes greeted the agitation for the Sovereign State of Biafra Thursday following the disagreements among eminent Igbo personalities on the contentious issue at a book launch in Abuja. The book “The Audacity of Power and the Nigeria Presidency-Exclusion of the South East in Nigeria’s Power Politics and the Spectre of Biafra” written by Godwin Ifeanyi Udibe and Law Mefor brought together the likes of former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, Senator Ben Obi, Enyinnaya Abaribe and Udenta Udenta. Chairman of the occasion and former Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu Nebo represented by Senator Obi lauded the efforts of the authors,…
-
The police in Kano on Sunday arrested the immediate past governor of Jigawa, Alhaji Sule Lamido. A reliable source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano that Lamido was arrested for allegedly inciting his supporters to stop the conduct of state’s upcoming local council polls. NAN reports that the arrest of Lamido may be connected with a programme aired on one of the Kano local radio stations. Lamido was alleged to have directed his supporters, during the programme, to ensure that they win the local governments elections by all means. The former governor was said to have been…
-
Thoughts in the mind are like birds in the sky; you may hate them but you can’t arrest their flights. You may change their courses but you can’t determine their paths, you may deter them but you can’t direct them, you can’t stop them from flying across your head but you can stop them from perching on ur head. These thoughts are mine, but they are not my creations, I didn’t choose them, they chose me, like lightning in the sky, it ran through my mind: “Is there any thread connecting El-Rufai’s open letter to president Buhari; the presidency’s suspension…
-
Speaking to popular personal development expert, Anthony Robbins, President George W. Bush said “I can’t criticize President Obama, he is my president, he is the president of the United States. I remember when Nixon was impeached I thought this man destroyed the American democracy, destroyed the presidency, destroyed the reputation, but you know what I discovered when I became president? The office is bigger than the occupant.” The office of President of Nigeria derives it’s powers from the people of Nigeria and any attempt to disparage the person of the occupant of such an office is an insult on the…
-
The Igbo community in Ekiti Thursday showered heroic welcome on Governor Ayodele Fayose for identifying with the pro-Biafra leader, Nnamdi Kanu in court on Wednesday, saying he has indeed proved to be their own brother from a distant land. Fayose had attended the court trial of Kanu and also appealed to President Mohammadu Buhari to use his veto power to order an unconditional release of the pro-Biafra leader. Kanu had been charged with tresnable felony for declaring support for Republic of Biafra and calling for succession of the Igbo tribe in Nigeria. Welcoming Fayose into Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital yesterday…
-
Nigerians have never shown such level of patience and tolerance towards any of their past leaders for his record and strange policies as that shown to their current leader, Muhammadu Buhari – a former military dictator now self-confessed democrat who said he came to fight corruption. Buhari, 75, is being plagued with failures across every single sector in the economy, the like as has never been seen before. Less than a year into office, the economy plummeted into recession, an economy which had till then grown at an average rate of 7% in previous years (2011-2014). The nation’s currency lost…
-
There is no doubt that despite the obvious challenges of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State the people still hold so much expectations for the party. The PDP has not been able to hold itself together since they lost the 2015 presidential election, though political analysts say such condition is common with ruling parties that lost elections. But the PDP problems seem to have been compounded with its internal crisis leading to sharp divisions among the leadership, so much that the masses who depend on the party for credible opposition seem to be confused with the goings…
-
Before I continue with this second part of this series started few days ago, let me first of all thank the leadership of the Makarfi faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the meeting they held at the residence of Hon Ezenwa Onyewuchi, and Hon Ezenwa Onywuchi himself for standing in the gap and proving to all that after all the PDP remains a roaring lion. Fact remains that the Sunday meeting has demonstrated that the PDP still enjoys the support of the people and remains a crowd puller. No doubt, but there are issues to that Sunday meeting.…
-
BACKGROUND Nigeria was a colonial-era creation of the British. The country was on January 1st 1914 artificially cobbled together by the annexation the then Protectorate of Southern Nigeria to the then Protectorate of Northern Nigeria in an exercise officially tagged “Amalgamation” The mind-boggling failures of this otherwise giant promise on the African Continent has been the subject of many researches and academic inquisition. Decades of routine, massive bloodletting which punctuate these monumental failures came to global reckoning in the years 1967-1970 when Eastern Nigeria, one of the four Federating Regions that constituted Nigeria, found itself in a genocidal war. The…
-
The meeting up, within record time, of the seemingly impossible bail condition for Nnamdi Kanu, once again demonstrates what Igbos can achieve, when we are United and determined. It is another example of the spirit of Biafra, the efficiency and ability to get thinks done, which marvelled the world. The world wondered how Biafra, survived for 30 months, during which she introduced a currency within 3 weeks, established refineries, produced aviation fuel and operated a functioning state with its bureaucracies. We are a people who get things done. I feel very proud to be Igbo. It is obvious, that the…
-
If the United Kingdom’s Foreign Minister, Boris Johnson, can describe the Leader of the Opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, as a “mutton-headed old mugwump” and an “Islington herbivore” how on earth should we describe our very own President Muhammadu Buhari in Nigeria? As each day passes he looks more and more like the colourful creature called Golum in J.R. Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ and behaves more and more like the goblyns and orcs in that same book. This is a man who came back from the United Kingdom as an ailing and fading ghost and who, despite all entreties…
-
In the midst of confusion that trailed the election results, Jonathan and his supporters were in panic mode with many suggesting that he should call Buhari to concede defeat while others opposed any concession. Ministers knelt, begged Jonathan to concede It pointed out that it was in the midst of the confusion that two ministers in Jonathan’s cabinet and Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs went on their knees to beg him to concede so as to steer Nigeria off the path of chaos. “Kneeling in front of Jonathan were his Attorney-General and Justice Minister, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN; Aviation…
-
Hon. Justice Mutala Nyako of the Federal High Court Abuja this morning sacked the Chairman and nine other members of the Code of Conduct Bureau, in a public interest suit filed by Kingdom Human rights Foundation International. The Foundation had instituted a suit against the Chairman and members of the Code of Conduct Bureau on the unconstitutional stay in office contrary to section 155 (c ) of the 1999 constitution. In suit no:FHC/ABJ/CS/411/2016 between Incorporated Trustees of Kingdom Human Rights Foundation Int’l Vs President Federal Republic of Nigeria and two others, the organization prayed the court to determine the following…
-
Strive Masiyiwa, CEO and Founder of Econet Wireless, recently took to his blog to reveal his side of the story behind the company’s downfall in Nigeria. An extract from the blog post: It’s time to play by a different (ethical) set of rules (Part 7) Nigeria 1 of 5 I had the privilege of making Nigeria’s first GSM phone call back in 2001 when I called the regulator to say, “We’re live!” Who would’ve believed then that Nigeria today would have more than 167 million mobile phones?! It all started out as a very exciting new chapter for enterprise in…
-
In 1999, Chief I.D Nwoga was the Chairman of PDP, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu was a revered leader of the party, Chief Evan Enwerem, Chief Martin Agbaso , Dr Kema Chikwe, and the likes all the big weights of Imo Politics then were all in PDP. In fact the strength of Imo Politics then was Owerri zone. They had power then to decide to take the 1999 Governorship ticket to their zone, but no, they didn’t. Because then Chief Mbakwe from Okigwe zone, has ruled the state for 4 years and 3 months, and Chief Evan Enwerem, from Owerri zone, just…
-
In 2009 when Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the current Emir of Kano, was being considered for the job of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, someone who claimed to have known him since the 1980s spoke about his character and temperament. Sanusi, he said, is a man who is a devoted Muslim without being overly pretentious about it. He is so well learned in Islamic knowledge, his Fulani tradition and history that he also approaches it with open mind. “He never shies away from confronting the hypocrisy of Northern politicians who use Islam to mislead the downtrodden masses of the North.”…
-
There is a sense in which the name of the malaise afflicting Nigeria is Biafra. I have argued before—and I must do so again—that Nigeria’s refusal to confront and address the sore of the Biafran War is the chief reason no nation has been able to materialize out of the space called Nigeria, no peace has been had in that space, and no real progress—much less development—has been recorded. As the world watches, riveted, Nigeria is spinning and spinning in a dizzying, ridiculous, violent dance, racing ever closer to the edge of that jagged precipice we have all romanced for…
-
A US non governmental group, the American Black Group for Democracy has revealed that the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari’s government plunged $500Million (About N150Billion) into the failed Hillary Clinton electioneering campaign fund. They added that the donation may create a huge misunderstanding between Nigeria and the incoming Trump’s US government. The Nigeria integrity challenged President, wasted no time in releasing the funds he reportedly pledged to the US secretary of states, Sen John Kerry and US Ambassador in Abuja to support of Mrs Clinton election. President Buhari an Islamist fundamentalist, have a visible hatred for Mr Donald Trump, especially when…
-
RE: UNPROVOKED MASSACRE OF OUR PEOPLE AT NIMBO, UZOWANI LGA, ENUGU STATE BY FULANI HERDSMEN , ON MONDAY, THE 25TH DAY OF APRIL, 2016,. OUR 34 POSITIONS: 1. We have viewed with grave concern, the reckless and callous attitude of the Fulani herdsmen, who had the effrontery to bring down their violence to our peaceful south-eastern states of Nigeria, by recently attacking our defenseless kiths and kin at Nimbo Community, Uzouwani, LGA, Enugu State, MASSACRED AND DISMEMBERED a lot of them, without any respect or value for human life. 2. These itinerant herdsmen have indeed drawn a line on the…
-
The trial of Nnamdi Kanu and other Biafran agitators just took a new turn. Last month, six of the inconsequential charges were dismissed by the court, setting the stage for the Binta Nyako headed trial to convict them on the rest of the charges for treasonable felony and hang them. Yesterday, 25 April 2017, the Muslim Judge, who is no stranger for aiding government injustice, added another twist, to this mockery of due process by setting an impossible bail condition on the grounds of health, which includes that Nnamdi Kanu deposits his passports and produce one Jewish leader as surety.…
-
A lot of things have happened in Imo State in quick succession, and if you are not careful you would miss count of the events, because sometimes the narration gets twisted by the government of the day in the state. Anyway, if the state government has been described as the “unjust aggressor against its own people” by the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) you should not be shocked when the narration is twisted to save the dirty face of the government and its operators. It is not my word, mind you. I did not say the Governor or his government is…
OBLONG MEDIA GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE 