October 23, 2021

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has ordered the foreign ministry to declare 10 ambassadors ‘persona non grata’ for calling for the release of philanthropist Osman Kavala.

Erdogan gave the order on Saturday in a speech in the city of Eskisehir.

The declaration affects the ambassadors of the United States, Germany, France, Netherlands, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden.

Erdogan considered it an affront for the envoys to comment on the arrest since 2017 of philanthropist Osman Kavala, who is in a Turkish prison in alleged connection with the 2016 aborted coup.

The envoys asked that Kavala be released …

Imo State Independent Electoral Commission (ISIEC) has organized a stakeholders’ meeting to fashion out ways to make the upcoming council election in the 27 council areas and the 305 INEC wards in the State more credible and transparent.

The body charged with the statutory responsibility of electoral management and administration assured Imolites to expect nothing less than a credible council election come March, 2022.

Speaking at ISIEC office in Owerri on Friday after the meeting with political parties in the State, the Acting Operational Commissioner for Imo State Independent Electoral Commission, Adimelechi Henry, said the electoral umpire was 100% prepared …

Former governor of Anambra State, Chukwuemeka Ezeife has said the Igbo speaking people won’t leave Nigeria because of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Ezeife said Buhari had been trying to push the Igbos out of Nigeria, but they would not leave.

The elder statesman disclosed this while addressing reporters on Thursday night at a public presentation of three books on the revival of Igbo culture by the founder of a non-governmental organisation, Save Our Heritage Initiative (SOHI), Dame May Ikokwu.

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He accused the President of being responsible for the political tension in the …

Buratai gave the suggestions when he spoke on Friday while delivering a lecture in Adamawa State capital, Yola.

Speaking on the topic, ‘The Nigerian Front in the War on Terror: Security or Development, during the lecture segment of the 24th, 25th and 26th Combined Convocation of Modibbo Adama University Yola, Buratai mentioned low human development and widespread poverty as a major predisposing factor to insecurity.

He similarly identified porous international …