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Leah Sharibu is alive, Lai Mohammed affirms

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described as ‘absolute fake news’ the reports in the Social Media that the abducted Dapchi school girl, Leah Sharibu, has died in captivity.

“It’s absolutely fake news. There is nothing like that,” the Minister said at a press briefing in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Sunday

He said the rumour of Miss Sharibu’s death, which surfaced just a few days to the presidential election, is another ploy by the political opposition to tarnish the image of the administration and exploit primordial sentiments ahead of the polls.

“I think it’s part of

Breaking: Army court-martial 14 soldiers in Port Harcourt

Nigerian Army apprehend 6 IPOB members

The Nigerian Army has confirmed the arrest of six members of the Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB) over Biafra Referendum and debunked shooting or killing anyone during the raid.An online medium had reported that soldiers of 144 Battalion on routine patrol in Aba general area of Abia State shot three persons and one of them died instantly.

But the Army said the report was untrue.

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“The Division wishes to state that although there was an incidence involving 144 Battalion patrol team with some traders at Asa – Nnentu spare parts market

The hatred and fear of the Igbos

The Reality with Odumodu: The hatred and fear of the Igbos

By Odumodu Gbulagu

It has always been the Igbos.

The British didn’t deem it fit to give power to the Igbos because they consider us uppity, and cannot be controlled. Also, because of the leading role Zik played for the Nigerian independence and for African liberation, the Igbo people have not been in the good book of the British government.

The colonialists perceived us as “The ambitious and clever Igbo people ” just because they preferred as their successors those that would continue to depend on them and those they would easily manipulate, a stooge of colonial power. The Hausa/Fulani …