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Withdraw Your ‘Language They Understand’ Comment With Apology To Ndigbo, Group Tells Buhari
Concerned by the escalating and deteriorating state of insecurity in the homelands inhabited by Ndigbo, the Igbo Nationalist Movement has stepped out to voice out their concern against the threat of war, going on in Igbo land. The group further buttressed that this had led to continued deployment of additional troops, and security personnel to the region by the Federal...
#BREAKING: NANS Chikens Out, Makes U-turn On Planned ‘Buhari Must Go Protest’
The National Association of Nigerian Students has suspended its planned June 12 nationwide protest. NANS President, Sunday Asefon, made this known in a statement on Friday morning. It was titled, ‘NANS Suspends June 12 Protest Over Concerns About Safety Of Protesters And Fear Of Possible Hijack By Politicians – Comrade Sunday Asefon’. According to the NANS president, the planned protest was aimed...
House Of Reps Drops Plans To Scrap NYSC
The Chairman House Committee on Youth Development, Mr Yemi Adaramodu has given assurance that the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme would not be scrapped. Adaramodu gave the assurance at the unveiling of nine books on NYSC and a maiden NYSC film to commemorate the 48th anniversary of the scheme in Abuja on Thursday. He said that sponsoring a bill on...
Extrajudicial Killings: Onyeka Onwenu Urges Buhari To Withdraw Troops From South East
Human right activist and former Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the National Centre for Women Development, Onyeka Onwenu has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw the Nigerian troops deployed in south east and dialogue with secessionist agitators in the region. She made the appeal on Thursday following a growing outcry over alleged extrajudicial killings of Igbo youths by the...
I’m Pained FG Didn’t Allow Me To Reconstruct Osisioma-Eke Akpara-Owerrinta Road — Ikpeazu
Abia state governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has expressed regret that the federal government rejected his request to reconstruct the Osisioma - Eke Akpara - Owerrinta Road with rigid Pavement technology up to Eke Akpara, saying this has delayed the progress of work on the road. According to the governor, his desire to reconstruct the road is to give the Petroleum...
Obasanjo Condemns Secessionist Agitators, Says It’s Idiotic To Disintegrate
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has condemned agitators of disintegration of the country saying that that it will be “almost idiotic” for Nigeria to disintegrate at a time like this when Africa is trying to reintegrate for political, social, and economic development. He insisted that the country is better together for all the ethnic groups in the country to remain together...
Igbo Group To Nnamdi Kanu: You’re Sending Our Youths To Early Grave, Come To Nigeria And Fight
Some Igbo Youths in Nigeria and the Diaspora have petitioned the British High Commission in Abuja to open Nnamdi Kanu's case file for Britain to investigate all the allegations against him over his incitement of violence in Nigeria by allegedly ordering his group, Eastern Security Network (ESN) to attack police and military personnel in the Southeastern part of Nigeria. The...
Continue Tweeting, Nothing’ll Happen — NASS Minority Caucus Tells Nigerians
The joint minority caucus of the Senate and the House of Representatives has called on Nigerians to ignore the ban placed by the Federal Government on Twitter and continue to use the social media platform. The National Assembly caucus, which described the ban as draconian, decried that many Nigerians are losing their sources of livelihood to the action. The Minority Leader...
South African Woman Breaks World Record, Gives Birth To Ten Babies
A South African woman, Gosiame Sithole, has broken the Guinness World Record as she gives birth to 10 babies, says reports. Sithole, 37, gave birth to seven boys and three girls on Monday, breaking the world record once held by a Malian woman, Halima Cisse, who gave birth to nine children in Morocco last month. According to reports, Sithole’s babies came...
Ikpeazu Cautions Abia Vigilante Operatives Against Intimidation, Moves To Arrest Perpetrators Of Arson
Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has cautioned men of Abia State Vigilante Services against intimidation of citizens of the state. This is even as he insists that those who took part in burning the office of Abia State Vigilante Services at Timber market in Umuahia on Monday must be brought to book. The governor was reacting to an altercation between men...
