April 2019

Why Biafra fell – Prof. Uzodinma Nwala

April 20, 2019 1:24 pm

“We thought that the defeat of Biafra was God telling us no, you don’t need Biafra; you need Nigeria. But that was a wrong meaning to what happened. We lost the war, not because God wanted us to go back to Nigeria.

We lost the war for obvious reasons, which I found when I went to New York in 1973 for my post-graduate work. I spent days and time at the United Nations and I was searching for an answer to the question, why Biafra fell. At the end of those days of working in the United Nations and other …

NAFDAC raises alarm over prevalence of drug addicts

April 20, 2019 12:02 pm
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder due to what it described as the high rate and prevalence of drug addicts across the country.The agency said it was shocking that Nigeria was leading even beyond the international coverage of drug abuse globally.The Director, Public Affairs, NAFDAC, Dr Abubakar Jimoh, said this on Saturday while speaking with newsmen in Ilorin.

Jimoh said the agency has an average conservative estimate of about 15 million people who are on drugs and 3 million of them could be conveniently called

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Woman delivered of five babies

April 19, 2019 9:32 pm

A 42-year-old woman has given birth to five babies (quintuplets) at Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Lokoja, Kogi, after 18 years of barrenness.

Mrs Uchenna Okeigbo and her kids are in good condition, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Okeigbo, a native of Olokoro Amangbo Community, Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia State , gave birth to three boys and two girls on Wednesday, April 17 through Caesarean Section.

She was full of praises to God  for the rare gift of five babies at a go after waiting for 18 years.

”It is not easy to have five
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How reckless driver caused Ibadan tanker fire

April 19, 2019 8:40 pm

Details emerged yesterday about  how a reckless car driver triggered the fire incident  that claimed the lives of  three people, three cars and more than 10 motorcycles in Ibadan during the week.

Also destroyed in  the fire incident were kiosks belonging to a motorcycle seller and a lottery operator.  The havoc wreaked by the incident according to eyewitnesses  would have been worse but for the quick removal of vehicles in a  nearby car wash. The  operator was said to have quickly driven the vehicles to safety when the fuel started  spilling from the tanker.

The 33,000litres fuel laden tanker going …

Nigeria under siege, needs prayers – PDP Chairman laments

April 19, 2019 8:25 pm

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, on Friday urged Nigerians to use this period of Easter to intensify their prayers for Nigeria because the country was under siege.

Secondus, in his Easter message to Nigerians, said only prayers can save Nigeria from the current siege.

In a statement signed and forwarded to DAILY POST by his Media Aide, Ike Abonyi, Prince Secondus also urged Nigerians not to allow the prevailing hardship in the country and the unjust outcome of 2019 election affect their spirit of love, brotherliness and peaceful co-existence.

The National Chairman said
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Nigerian filmmaker Ifeanyi Onyeabor dies shooting movie

April 19, 2019 8:13 pm

President of Directors’ Guild of Nigeria (DGN), Mr Fred Amata, has confirmed the death of Nollywood filmmaker, Ifeanyi Onyeabor, who died while shooting a movie in Jos.

Amata told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that Onyeabor’s death on Friday was shocking and unbelievable, and had left him pondering on what may have gone wrong.

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Onnoghen refuses CCT conviction, heads to Court of Appeal

April 19, 2019 11:22 am

The former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, came out smoking yesterday after the Code of Conduct Tribunal convicted him for false assets declaration.

The tribunal came down heavily on the embattled judicial chief. It relieved him of his top judicial position, barred him from holding public office for 10 years and stripped him of all the funds in the five accounts he was found to have concealed.

“We shall avail ourselves of all the processes and the hierarchy of the judiciary,” Onnoghen’s lead counsel, Mr. Okon Efut SAN, said angrily in reaction to the judgment of the tribunal …

60 million Nigerians can’t read and write – FG

April 18, 2019 8:10 pm

Sonny Echono, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, says nearly 60 million Nigerians are illiterates.

Echono made this known on Thursday at the Federal Government College Otobi, during the inauguration of a pilot Literacy Centre for the North Central Geo-Political Zone.

The permanent secretary expressed regret that the illiteracy rate among the youths and adults was high.
According to him, Literacy Centres to be established in 104 Federal Government Colleges (FGCs) are aimed at reducing the high rate of illiteracy at the low cadre staff of the institutions, stressing that the Federal Government designed the literacy programme to cater for …

Jubril, Buhari’s impostor signs ₦30,000 Minimum Wage Bill

April 18, 2019 7:47 pm

Jubril Al-Sudani, being paraded as President Muhammadu Buhari in Nigeria by the All Progressives Congress party, has signed the long awaited National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Bill into Law.

The Nation reports and calls him President Muhammadu Buhari

All workers, excluding those on the payroll of organisations with less than 25 workers, are to benefit from the new minimum wage regime, which took immediate effect.

The bill, which approved N30, 000 as the monthly wage for the least paid worker, was passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on March 19, immediately after the National Assembly resumed from recess. …

Fuel tanker fire in Ibadan kills 2, destroys cars

April 18, 2019 7:09 pm

A tanker laden with petrol on Thursday fell and caught fire claiming two lives and burning four vehicles at Iwo road area of Ibadan around 3:00 p.m.

An eye witness, AbdulAzeez Hammed, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the tanker which fell and spilled its content, razed no fewer than four vehicles.

Hammed said he saw a man in one of the affected vehicles removing his child from the back of his wife when they saw the fire approaching  their vehicle.

The witness said the husband and the child escaped while the fire caught the wife in the …

Man nabbed with lighters, petrol at New York Cathedral

April 18, 2019 8:41 am

A 37-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday night after walking into St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City with two full gasoline cans, lighter fluid and lighters, police said.

The incident occurred two days after a massive fire severely damaged the 850 years old Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, causing global shock and sorrow. The blaze was most likely the result of an accident though a major investigation is under way.

In New York, the man entered the Roman Catholic cathedral in midtown Manhattan just before 8 p.m. (0000 GMT) and was confronted by a security guard, according to a …

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