January 18, 2020

Group Gives Tinubu 24 Hours To Take Position On Amotekun

January 18, 2020 4:06 pm

An association, known as Save Lagos Group, has demanded a public statement, within 24 hours from Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on his position on the establishment of a security outfit; Western Nigeria Security Network code-named ‘Operation Amotekun’.

The group gave the ultimatum, yesterday, in a statement in which they acknowledged and commended those who have spoken up on the issue, like Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka; Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo; Mr. Femi Falana, SAN; Chief Olu Falae, Otunba Gani Adams, among others.

“Yoruba nation is presently in trying period over the formation of the security outfit in the Nigeria Federal …

Imo: Alaigbo Development Foundation Condemns S’Court Ruling

January 18, 2020 2:07 pm

Alaigbo Development Foundation, a registered Non-Governmental Organization of Igbo Intelligentsia, Elders, Clergy, Patriotic public figures, Women and Youth, both at home and abroad, with the main objective of protecting and ensuring the survival of Ndigbo, their Culture and Civilization as well as the development of Igbo-land. Recently condemned the ruling of Supreme Court on Imo state governorship election which removed Rtn Hon Emeka Ihedioha of PDP as governor-elect and replaced him with Hope Uzodimma of APC. In a statement which is below the organization not only reject but also condemned the Supreme Court ruling. Calling it an arrogant assault on …

Enugu Polls: Police Arrest Anti-Omeje Protesters In Nsukka

January 18, 2020 10:45 am
The move to stop the re-election bid of a former chairman of Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, Hon. Patrick Omeje got messier on Friday.

This time, several youths again took to the streets of Nsukka with a mock coffin.

It was learnt that this is the second time an anti-Omeje protest is taking place in Nsukka.

However, this time the youths came out with a mock coffin, asking the Governor of Enugu State not to consider the former council boss for re-election. They are accusing him of poor outing during his first tenure.

DAILY POST gathered that the

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FFK Explodes As Miyetti Tells Buhari To Nab Yoruba Chiefs

January 18, 2020 10:44 am
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has dared the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to arrest the Yoruba leaders promoting the establishment of the new security outfit, Amotekun in the South West.

Fani-Kayode said this while reacting to the call made by the National President General of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Abdullahi Bodejo to arrest the Yoruba leaders endorsing Amotekun.

NAN had reported that Bodejo said FG should not just stop at banning the outfit but should arrest those involved in making decisions for its creation with immediate effect.

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He said:

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Breaking: Enugu LG Polls: PDP Office Set Ablaze

January 18, 2020 10:44 am
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, office in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, was early Saturday set ablaze by unknown arsonists.

NAN reports that this is coming amidst rising tension over the forthcoming local government election in the State.

This is as many aspirants in Nsukka Council Area, under the platform of the party, have been crying out over the alleged hijack of the process by the party hierarchy, in favour of a particular candidate.

Barely 24 hours ago, some youths in the area also took to the streets, during which some of them were arrested and now being

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Yoruba To Hold Protest In Support Of Amotekun

January 18, 2020 10:40 am
Yoruba World Congress (YWC), an umbrella body of all Yoruba socio-cultural groups, has threatened to hold a peaceful protest in support of the recently launched Western Nigeria Security Network code-named Amotekun.

NAN gathered the launch of the new security outfit has attracted several attentions from many prominent Nigerians, groups and bodies.

While some have seen the outfit as a good development, others have seen it as an aberration to the existing constitution and security agencies.

The federal government has also declared the outfit as illegal.

YWC in a response to the launch, said it has concluded plans to organise a

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Nigerians Currently Poorer, Lost Faith In Govt –Oyegun

January 18, 2020 10:39 am
John Oyegun, former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has lamented that Nigeria was currently not working.

Oyegun maintained that Nigerians were increasingly becoming unhappy with the state of things.

Speaking at the 17th edition of the Daily Trust Dialogue in Abuja, Oyegun lamented that the Federal Governmemt was not addressing what was making “people poorer and unhappy.”

The APC Chairman, however, admitted that Nigeria has been growing in the last 20 years.

Oyegun stated that there was hardly a single administration that has not left office unpopular and unheralded in the past twenty years.

Oyegun said: “I

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Trump Gives Exact Details On Elimination Of Soleimani

January 18, 2020 10:39 am
President Donald Trump has narrated minute-by-minute details of the US strike that killed Iran’s top military commander, Qassem Soleimani.

Trump spoke at a GOP fundraising dinner held inside the gilded ballroom on his Mar-a-Lago property Friday evening, CNN reports.

In his speech, Trump said that Soleimani was “saying bad things about our country. How much of this shit do we have to listen to? How much are we going to listen to?”

He called Soleimani a “noted terrorist” who “was down on our list” and “was supposed to be in his country” before traveling to other nations in the region.

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Timi Frank Reveals PDP Govs’ Ties With Buhari

January 18, 2020 10:39 am
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Timi Frank, has said that governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were the major problem of opposition party as some of them were lobbying to travel with President Muhammadu Buhari.

Frank said aside Governor Wike of Rivers state, many of other opposition party governors are daily lobbying to be in the good books of Buhari, hence they don’t talk on national issues affecting Nigerians negatively.

Reacting to a media report that the PDP was planning to stage a nationwide protest against the Supreme Court ruling in Imo, Frank

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South-West Destined To Rule Nigeria – APC Chieftain

January 18, 2020 10:38 am
Immediate past Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State, Chief Jide Awe, has said the Southwest region will produce the party’s candidate that will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.

Awe, who replied to the grandstanding of the Miyetti Allah that the zone might lose presidency in 2023 if it insists on formation of operation Amotekun, said the southwest region was destined for the next presidency, going by the silent principle of rotation.

A herders’ group, Miyetti Allah Kaote Hore, had last week threatened that the southwest may not be considered for presidency in 2023 taking

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NSCDC Threatens To Sanction Filling Stations In Jigawa

January 18, 2020 10:37 am
Jigawa State command of the Nigerian security and civil defence corps, NSCDC, has threatened to sanction filling stations and cooking gas vendors that are operating below standard across the state.

Spokesman of the command, SC Adamu Shehu disclosed this in a press statement issued to DAILY POST in Dutse.

He said the Command observed with dismay the nonchalant attitudes displayed by some of those businesses to safety standards set aside during emergencies.

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The statement explained that in its recent inspection tour to some filling stations and cooking gas selling

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Trump Issues Strong Warning To Iran Supreme Leader Khamenei

January 18, 2020 10:37 am

U.S. President, Donald Trump, on Saturday said that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “should be very careful” about what he says.

“The so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ of Iran, who has not been so Supreme lately, had some nasty things to say about the United States and Europe.

“Their economy is crashing, and their people are suffering. He should be very careful with his words!,” Trump said on Twitter.

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The US and Iran have been on a warpath since Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC)

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