January 2020

Bio: Asaba Massacre: Untold Story Of Tragedy And Carnage

January 21, 2020 4:57 am

For the past 52 years, the people of Asaba in Delta State have been living in deep sorrow and anguish. They have been swimming in the ocean of misery and trauma as a result of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war.

Honourable Chike Osadebey, son of Dennis Osadebey, former premier of the now defunct Mid-Western Region of Nigeria, told Daily Sun in Asaba last Thursday that because Asaba is a closely-knit community, every family was a victim of the “abomination in Asaba,” as Chinua Achebe described it.

“If you dig deep, it seems that everybody in Asaba is related to one …

Why Supreme Court Judges Will Never Know Peace – Umahi

January 21, 2020 4:56 am
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Southeast Zonal Vice Chairman, Austine Umahi has said judges of the Supreme Court will never know peace.

Umahi said the Supreme Court judges will never know peace until they reverse the decision to sack Emeka Ihedioha as Governor of Imo State.

The apex court had declared Senator Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the duly elected governor of the state, a decision that has sparked widespread condemnation and protests.

However, Umahi while addressing PDP protesters in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi state capital yesterday, said the judiciary has since lost the respect it used

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Ezeife: God Is Aware Nigeria Is Disintegrating

January 21, 2020 4:54 am
Former Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has declared that God is aware that Nigeria is drifting towards disintegration.

He decried what he described as consistency by the present All Progressives Congress (APC) government in pushing the Igbo out of the country.

He warned that the Fulani are few and may not be able to stand if another war breaks out.

Speaking with the Sun, the former Governor stated that though the Igbo believe in the unity of the country, they will not reject themselves if they are rejected by Nigeria.

He said, “So, a new Nigeria must come, a

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PANDEF Blasted Over Refusal To Negotiate With Buhari

January 21, 2020 4:54 am

The Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA, has condemned the decision of the Pan Niger Delta Elders’ Forum (PANDEF) to stop all forms of negotiation with the Federal Government on behalf of the Niger Delta region.

RNDA described PANDEF’s decision as “nonsensical, meaningless and shameful.”

The militant group said PANDEF “failed woefully to address the issues of underdevelopment affecting the long-neglected people of the region and therefore did not qualify to enter into any negotiation with the Federal Government on behalf of the people of the Niger Delta.”

RNDA, in coalition with nine other militant groups, stated this in a statement …

Tambuwal Assures Corpers Of Adequate Security

APC Reacts To Tambuwal’s Victory, Blasts PDP

January 21, 2020 4:54 am
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has reacted to the Supreme Court ruling affirming the election of Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State.

APC described the Supreme Court ruling as totally strange to its expectations and facts at its disposal.

THISDAY had reported that the Supreme Court had struck out the appeal brought by Ahmed Aliyu of APC challenging the last governorship election in the state.

Tambuwal was duly elected in the governorship election conducted on March 9, 2019 in Sokoto State.

But, Justice Abba Aji while delivering judgment on Monday, affirmed that the appeal lacks merit as the appellant could

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A’Ibom South Rerun: APC Can’t Be Declared Winner – Akpabio

January 21, 2020 4:45 am

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has declared that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mike Igini, would not be fair to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the senatorial rerun.

The Minister said that with Igini as the umpire in the election, APC cannot be victorious, because, according to him, the INEC chief hates the party.

Akpabio also maintained that having taken higher national responsibilities as a Minister, he cannot be a candidate in Akwa Ibom South West Senatorial rerun.

The Appeal Court in Calabar, the State capital, had ordered a rerun election to

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How I Battled Devil, Alcohol – Kanye West

January 21, 2020 4:43 am

Popular American Rapper, Kanye West has revealed his struggles with alcohol and devil during his transition journey to being a Christian.

Speaking at a prayer rally in Arizona tagged ‘AWAKEN2020’ organized by a group of anti-gay/LGBTQ pastors, Kanye who is now a ‘born again’, opened up on how his spiritual journey with God helped his mental condition and saved him from alcohol.

“There was some vodka in the refrigerator at my office, and sometimes I would just go ahead and take a drink from it in the middle of the day. I was walking toward that kitchenette area, and I …

Benue Upgrades State Colleges Of Education To Polytechnics

January 21, 2020 4:43 am

The Benue State Executive Council on Monday approved the conversion of Akawe Torkula College of Advanced and Professional Studies, ATCAPS, Makurdi to Akawe Torkula Polytechnic, ATP, Makurdi.

The Council made this known in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, James Agbo.

It also approved the conversion of Akperan Orshi College of Agriculture, Yandev, AOCAY, to Akperan Orshi Polytechnic, Yandev, AOPY, Yandev.

Agbo said Governor Samuel Ortom, who presided over the meeting gave the two approvals on Monday at the Benue Peoples House, Makurdi.

According to the council, the decision to convert the

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‘Withdraw Treason Charges Against Kanu’ – IYA To Buhari

January 20, 2020 2:36 pm

A group, Ibeku Youth Assembly (IYA) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government to allow the leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, return home and bury his late parents, Eze Isreal Kanu and Ugoeze Sally Kanu.

The youth group pointed out that any attack on the IPOB leader by Nigeria security operatives if he surfaces for the funeral of his late parents, may spring up avoidable war, which it opined will lead to the final death of Nigeria as a democratic nation.

Ibeku Youth Assembly is the apex youth body in the hometown of

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Imo State APGA Forms Coalition With APC (Video), Reactions

January 20, 2020 2:34 pm

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Imo State has directed its members to support the new All Progressives Congress (APC) government in the best interest of the state.

At the meeting in Owerri which had in attendance the APGA Chairman, Henry Okafor, its governorship candidate, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume and other top officials, the party said following the recent development in the state, it is collapsing its structure into the APC in the state to form a coalition.

Araraume noted that the people of the state have suffered hence the need for the people to help the current administration in …

Rivers: Girl Dumps Newly Birthed Twins In Gutter (Photos)

January 20, 2020 2:33 pm

A young girl has just killed her twin babies after giving birth to them in Portharcourt by throwing them inside the drain in Rukpokwu Town, Elikpowodu Community precisely.

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Ogbonda Godfrey Nyemovuchi Who Hails From the community shared the photos on social media and wrote:

This evil act happened in my village in Rukpokwu town in Elikpokwodu community..
A young girl gave birth to this beautiful twins last night and dumped dem inside the drains early hours of today..Rip innocent soul..let death locate the bastard of a girl before

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Ihedioha: Women In Black Protest Supreme Court Judgment

January 20, 2020 2:26 pm

 

Supporters of Emeka Ihedioha, former governor of Imo, flooded the streets of Owerri, the state capital, on Sunday, demanding a reversal of the supreme court judgement which ordered his sack.

The apex court had on Tuesday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to return Hope Uzodinma, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as winner of the March election.

Uzodinma placed a distant fourth in the results announced by INEC.

The aggrieved protesters wielded placards with inscriptions such as: “Ihedioha We Know’; “Democracy Has Been Murdered”; “We Want Him Back”, among others.

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