October 2021

Candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the November 6 Anambra State guber election, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, on Tuesday said he and a few other prominent Igbo Indigenes facilitated the release of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, in 2017.

Soludo said he led 12 prominent Igbos to Abuja for the release of Kanu in 2017, while also noting that he would continue to protect the interest of Igbos in all their endeavours and incorporate them in his administration, especially in making public policies.

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The aspiration of the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar to run for the 2023 presidential election may have crashed with the zoning arrangement of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on National Chairmanship.

PDP had agreed to zone its National Chairmanship to the Northern part of the country.

The National Working Committee (NEC) of the PDP last week Thursday approved the zoning of the party’s next National Chairman to the North.

PDP’s NEC considered and adopted the Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi-led Zoning Committee’s report, ahead of the party’s national convention, scheduled for October 30.

The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, …

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has blamed the United States for tensions on the peninsula and accused the South of hypocrisy, state media reported Tuesday, as he opened an exhibition showcasing his nuclear-armed country’s weapons.

The “wrong judgment and acts” of the US meant instability could not be resolved, he said in an address to the “Self-Defence 2021” display, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.

Pyongyang is under multiple international sanctions over its banned nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes, which have made rapid progress under Kim.

In 2017, it tested missiles that can reach the whole …

UN’s top court on Tuesday awarded Somalia control over most of a potentially oil and gas-rich chunk of the Indian Ocean following months of a bitter legal battle with neighbouring Kenya over their sea border.

In its ruling the International Court of Justice insisted that there was ‘no agreed maritime boundary’ and drew a new border close to the one claimed by Somalia, although Kenya kept a part of the 100,000 square-kilometer (38,000-square-mile) area, chief judge Joan Donoghue said.

Kenya, which had claimed the entire area off the East African coast, said last week that it would refuse to recognise …

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organiSation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has the comment credited to the former chairman, Daar Communications Limited, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, that no southern candidate could win the presidency in 2023 under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as unfortunate.

Dokpesi had in a media report stated that there was no candidate from the South-East and even from the South that would win again the North.

But Ohanaeze Ndigbo in a statement on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Alex Ogbonnia, titled, ‘Dokpesi Oscillates,’ said the former Daar Communications chairman’s comments ‘negates the position of the 17 Southern Governors …

The Zamfara state House of Assembly on Tuesday suspended two lawmakers over their alleged collision with bandits.

The lawmakers who were identified as Yusuf Muhammad, Anka representing Anka Constituency, and Ibrahim T. Tukur Bakura, representing Bakura constituency –  were suspended for three months by the State parliament.

According to the Director-General Press Affairs and Public Relations of the Assembly, Mustapha Jafaru Kaura, the lawmakers will stay off the assembly pending the conclusion of investigations on the allegation leveled against them.

‘They are also to appear before the House Committee on ethics and privileges in conjunction with security agencies …

The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday bowed to pressure as they adopted electronic transmission of election results by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC).

The new position of the legislators was contained in the Conference Committee report submitted to the chamber on Tuesday.

The electronic transmission of election results which is a proviso in clause 53 of the Electoral amendment act places on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) the right to transmit results without subjecting their discretion to any other organ as was firstly captured that generated controversy.

Adoption wasn’t, however, without heated debate which was brought under control by the …