The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said ongoing investigations have revealed a serving member of the National Assembly as one of the high-profile financiers of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu; and the Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho. He said his regime was vigorously...
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Police threaten clampdown as IPOB declares sit-at-home on October 1
The Ebonyi State Police Command has threatened to deal with any group that foments trouble in the state on October 1, 2021. Nigeria celebrates its Independence Day annually on October 1. Ahead of this year’s celebrations to mark Nigeria’s proclamation of independence from British rule on October 1, 1960, the Indigenous People of Biafra, in...
IPOB bans Nigerian flag in South-East, declares sit-at-home protest Oct 1
The Indigenous People of Biafra has banned the Nigerian flag in the South-East zone of the country. The secessionist group said the ban begins today, and also declared October 1 a sit-at-home day. Media and Publicity Secretary of the group, Emma Powerful, stated this in a statement made available to our correspondent in Awka, Anambra State...
PENSION REFORM ACT: WE SHOULD DO WHATEver IS NECESSARY FOR PEOPLE WHO VOLUNTARILY SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY- ENUGU REP OKECHUKWU
The Deputy minority leader, House of Representatives, Hon Toby Okechukwu, during the plenary on the 21st of September, 2021, made this remark while supporting the motion for the bill which exempts of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) from the contributory pension scheme like their counterpart in the military. This is coming days after some protesting...
BREAKING: Rivers council chairman dies barely four months into second term
The executive chairman if Bonny Local Government in Rivers State, Mr. David Irimagha, has died. Irimagha reportedly passed on early on Saturday morning at an undisclosed hospital in Port Harcourt, the state capital. Though the family is yet to make any official confirmation, our correspondent gathered that Irimagha died on Friday night. Late Irimagja was...
PDP GOVERNORS accuses Umahi Of sabotaging PDP in 2019 elections to deliver 25% to his APC benefactors
Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday expressed outrage over disparaging comments made about the PDP and its governors by the Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi. Umahi had, in a television interview, said, “One or two governors that own PDP, their body language suggests that they are against zoning and...
12 soldiers killed, three gun trucks seized in Borno terror ambush
Twelve soldiers of the Nigerian Army attached to Operation Hadin Kai Theatre Command in Maiduguri, Borno State, were on Thursday killed in an ambush by Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists as they travelled to Maiduguri from Monguno. The insurgents were said to have made away with three gun trucks and rifles seized from the soldiers, as well...
DEFECTION : Gumi attacks Fani-Kayode, calls him ‘Judas of Oduduwa’
Controversial Nigerian Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has accused former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, of being a traitor after defecting to the All Progressives Congress. The Kaduna-based Islamic cleric said this in a Facebook post titled, ‘Judas of Oduduwa’, where he attached a previous post by Femi Fani-Kayode that he prefers to die than...
FLASHBACK: APC is darkness, I’ll rather die than join, says Femi Fani-Kayode in 2019
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode on Thursday returned to the All Progressives Congress. This comes barely two years after he described the party as darkness, which he will never associate with. He had said in December 2019 when there was a speculation that he was considering to join the ruling party that “APC is...
Drama as another PDP rep member defects to APC
The lawmaker representing Tai/Eleme/Oyigbo Federal Constituency in Rivers State, Chisom Dike, on Thursday, defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the ruling All Progressives Congress. The Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, read Dike’s letter to the House during plenary. He said the lawmaker cited, among other things, the division in the PDP as the reason for his...