“We wish to warn that should any Southeast person be attacked anywhere in the world, we shall, by all means, bring back Kanu to Nigeria to face the wrath of our people,” the governors said.
Nigerian Senator Ike Ekweremadu Saturday was assaulted in Nuremberg, Germany where he was
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The Indigenous People of Biafra has issued a statement explaining why its members attacked former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu in Nuremberg, Germany.
The group said the attack was due to the role Ekweremadu and others played during the Nigerian Army’s, “Operation Python Dance” exercise in the South-East.
The group alleged that Ekweremadu and others like Nnia Nwodo, David Umahi, Okezie Ikpeazu, Rochas Okorocha, Willie Obiano and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi plotted to kill the IPOB dream.
A statement by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on behalf of the group’s leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, accused the leaders from …
Fleeing suspected kidnap kingpin, whose rescue by soldiers led to the killing of three policemen and two civilians in Taraba State, Alhaji Hamisu Bala Wadume, is back in police custody.
The suspect, who has since been moved to Abuja, was tracked down in his hideout in Kano State, the police said in a statement yesterday.
He said: “I am Hamisu Bala, …
Babatunde Fashola
Fashola born June 28, 1963 in Lagos State is a lawyer and a politician. He won the governorship election of Lagos State in 2007 and 2011 on the platform of the defunct All Progressives Congress (APC). He was appointed the Minister of Power, Works and Housing by President Buhari in 2015 and has been re-nominated as minister.
Olorunnibe Mamora
Mamora, a medical doctor, is a former speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly. He was elected senator for the Lagos East constituency in 2007. He was appointed Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) in …
The sentence was confirmed by a lawyer for the separatists, Joseph Fru, who condemned what he called a “parody of justice”.
The defendants refused to recognise the right of the military tribunal in Yaounde to try them.
Their lawyers have yet to say whether they will file an appeal.
Ayuk Tabe,
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The Federal Government has called on German authorities to unmask the identity of and try the Aug. 17 attackers of Sen. Ike Ekweremadu in Nuremberg, Germany.
In a statement issued on Monday by Nigerian Embassy in Berlin, the embassy also demanded that the attackers be tried in accordance with German laws.
The embassy stated that investigations would help identify the attackers with a view to bringing them to justice.
The Nigerian embassy, which said that investigating the perpetrators would discourage any individual or group from carrying out acts of violence against Nigerian government officials on German soil, cited the threat …
President, Congress for Non-Political Party Members (CNPM), Comrade John Mayor Echefu, has warned that if caution is not taken, Nigeria may be history, as every group is showing loyalty fatigue to the nation.
In this interview, he spoke on various national issues.
What is your view on the state of the nation?
Nigeria is in a slippery slope to something that is very disastrous to the corporate existence of this nation and we must do everything possible to avoid this from happening. It is sad, very sad.
The situation is so bad and we have never experienced what we are …
EFCC spokesman Tony Orilade told The Guardian that the raid was in connection with an ongoing investigation into finances of Lagos State under the former governor.
“It is just the continuation of the ongoing investigation,” Orilade said.
The commission secured a court to freeze three accounts of the state earlier in the month. The accounts are domiciled in First City Monument Bank, Access Bank and Zenith Bank.
The accounts, EFCC said, needed to be frozen until the conclusion of the investigation
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Member, representing Nnewi North, Nnewi South and Ekwusigo federal constituency, Chris Azubogu has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) can take over Anambra State if the opposition party does the right thing.
In this interview, the three-term federal lawmaker also decried the insecurity situation in the country and expressed the need for the National Assembly to come up with laws that would deal with the menace.
The people are worried about the security situation in the country, what roles will the legislature be playing in the issue of security?
The general challenge of insecurity in the country have been …
The Federal Government of Nigeria has lodged a complaint with the National Broadcasting Commission over the sexual content on Big Brother Naija.
The Director-General, National Council for Arts and Culture, Otunba Segun Runsewe, stated this when the President of the National Council of Women Societies, Dr Gloria Shoda, visited him.
He said that in 2020, the NCAC would represent the 2008 Nudity Bill titled “A Bill for an Act to punish and prohibit nudity, sexual intimidation and other-related offences in Nigeria,” sponsored by the former chairperson, Senate Committee on Women and Youth, Eme Ekaette.
“We are going to represent that …
By MarkAnthony Nze
101. INT. BAR.NIGHT.
The DUO OF KEN and RAY at their usual ‘hang out’ drinking and smoking as they discuss.
KEN
Good Gracious! The turtle neck is finally off!
RAY
What’s wrong with you man?
KEN
Are you blind? Can’t you see that something is actually wrong amongst us?
RAY
I don’t seem to see anything.
KEN
If you can’t see or notice anything, it’s either you’re blind or your faculties are no longer intact.
RAY
Don’t insult me man!
KEN
I’m not insulting you, I’m only telling you the truth, can’t you see we’re not complete …
Eating ants and other insects could soon be recommended to protect against cancer, following a groundbreaking new study.
A series of experiments by Italian scientists show that the ubiquitous invertebrate – in common with others such as grasshoppers and crickets – contains high concentrations of antioxidants.
The compounds are important for reducing chemical reactions in the body that produce free radicals, which are themselves believed to raise the risk of cancer. They have also been linked to higher chances of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.
Antioxidants are present in a range of foods, including fruit and vegetables.
However, many of these …
