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Xenophobia: Kalu calls for retaliation

Xenophobia: Kalu calls for retaliation

September 4, 2019 4:25 am
  • Ekweremadu wants diplomatic ties with South Africa severed

Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan, Tuesday reacted to the recent xenophobic attacks on Nigerians living in South Africa saying Nigeria has had enough of such attacks.

This is coming just as the Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, called on Nigerians to retaliate such attacks while the immediate past Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, canvassed for the severance of diplomatic relations with South Africa in view of the persistent xenophobic attacks.

Lawan, in a statement personally signed by him, emphasised that Nigeria has had enough of its citizens being targets …

TICAD 7: No nation wants to do business with Buhari - PDP

TICAD 7: No nation wants to do business with fake Buhari

September 3, 2019 2:49 am

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday described the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Japan as a disgraceful outing, adding that it was evidential of the poor attention given to President Buhari by world leaders and investors at the seventh Tokyo International Conference on Africa Development (TICAD)

This, the party said, has further confirmed the rejection of Buhari’s government by the international community.

The party in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, also described as a national embarrassment and shame that President Buhari “could not seal any meaningful economic agreement at the conference but only came home …

Anambra 2021: Anglican Church demands governorship slot

Anambra 2021: Anglican Church demands governorship slot

September 3, 2019 2:23 am

Members of the Anglican Communion in Anambra State have made passionate appeal for the election of the member of the church as the governor of the state come 2021 governorship election.

The Church Strategic Committee for the Election of Indigenous Bishop of Nnewi Diocese who made the appeal yesterday when they visited the Bishop-elect, Diocese of Nnewi (Anglican Communion) Ven. Ndubisi Obi in his office at St. Augustine Anglican Church, Federal Housing Estate, 3-3 Onitsha said it balanced equation since Catholic Church members had been in power for many years in the state.

The committee lamented that none of the …

Governor Wike offers solution to oil theft

Governor Wike offers solution to oil theft

September 3, 2019 2:11 am
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has charged the Federal Government to collaborate with oil producing states to tackle economic sabotage being perpetrated by oil thieves.Blaming collusion between oil thieves and security agencies for huge oil losses in the country, he said the situation should spur stronger ties between the Federal Government and oil-bearing states to nip the menace in the bud.

He made the assertion when the country representative of Konrad Adenauer (German Foundation), Dr. Vladimir Kreck and German federal parliamentarians, Andreas Lammel and Dr. Joachim Pfeiffer visited him at Government House, Port Harcourt.

Wike explained that oil bunkering has

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Outrage as attacks on Nigerians in South Africa persist

Outrage as attacks on Nigerians in South Africa persist

September 3, 2019 1:04 am
Nigerians yesterday condemned the Federal Government’s seeming inability to confront the persistent attacks on its citizens in South Africa.

It was learnt that South Africans started fresh attacks, looting and burning of businesses and property belonging to foreigners including Nigerians. In the process, they killed three people, while another one is receiving treatment for smoke inhalation.

The President of the Nigeria Union in South Africa (NUSA), Adetola Olubajo, said yesterday that the attacks began on Sunday morning in Jeppestown area of Johannesburg when a building was set ablaze by an angry mob.

“The mob also looted several shops that were

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'Political elite, learn from Ekweremadu’s Nuremberg attack'

‘Political elite, learn from Ekweremadu’s Nuremberg attack’

September 1, 2019 1:03 pm

Executive Secretary, Mandate for Good Governance (MANGOV), Chief Donatus Enendu, has said that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) should not be blamed for embarrassing the former deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu in far away Nuremberg, Germany.

Chief Enendu, a former President-General, Uke community, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, said that although the action of IPOB members was unfortunate, he cautioned the nation’s political office holders who lived in affluence to the detriment of the poor masses to learn from Ekweremadu’s experience.

Read Also: Why Ekweremadu was attacked in Nuremberg – IPOB

He said that political elite …

Okonjo-Iweala, others in TICAD7, fake Buhari still missing

Okonjo-Iweala, others in TICAD7, fake Buhari still missing

August 30, 2019 9:39 am

The former Nigeria’s coordinating minister for the economy, Dr Okonjo-Iweala, in company of  other African leaders at the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) were treated to a special business launch after today’s session at the conference by Gavi Vaccine Alliance, but Jubril Al-Sudani, late President Muhammadu Buhari‘s impostor was not among the dignitaries in attendance, Africa Daily News, New York reliably, gathered.

It is getting obvious to the world that Nigeria’s president is a Sudanese impostor, and the deliberate exclusion of the purported Nigeria’s president in the business launch was well understood by the Nigerian …

Bad Nigerians abroad don’t represent Nigeria – Fake Buhari

August 29, 2019 1:12 pm

Jubril Al-Sudani, the Sudanese impostor being paraded as President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the few Nigerians living abroad and getting involved in criminal activities do not represent the values of majority of the people of Nigeria.

NAN reports:

Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman in a statement in Abuja, said President Buhari stated this when he met with leaders of the Nigerian Community living in Japan.

The meeting was on the sidelines of the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7), on Thursday in Yokohama, Japan.

The President declared: “Let me also say that there are few

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Kanu exposes those behind fake Buhari, gives detailed facts

Kanu exposes those behind fake Buhari, gives detailed facts

August 29, 2019 12:46 am

Following the brouhaha surrounding the true identity of Jubril Al-Sudani, the impostor camouflaging as Nigeria’s president and his recent visit to Japan, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu yesterday, the 28th of August, made a broadcast to reveal those behind the imposition of  the Sudanese impostor on Nigeria, Africa Daily News, New York gathered.

In almost a two-hour broadcast, Kanu explicitly explained how Jubril was shopped for and brought to Nigeria, as well as the fellows behind him. He further condemned the photoshopped images of the purported Buhari in Japan, which the Nigerian government …

Only rotational presidency will stabilise Nigeria - Arise

Only rotational presidency will stabilise Nigeria – Arise

August 28, 2019 10:13 am

Senator Ayo Arise who represented Ekiti North district between 2007 to 2011 believes that only a rotational presidency arrangement would stabilize the nation. In this interview, he spoke on various issues including the deteriorating security situation in the country.

What are your reflections on the deteriorating security situation in the country especially with regards to the promise by your party, the APC to make the country secure? 

The security challenges the nation is facing now is not about the party; I feel that it should be of great concern to all Nigerians; whether you are in party A or …

Breaking: Kanu moves to further prove the death of Buhari

Breaking: Kanu moves further to prove the death of Buhari

August 28, 2019 8:40 am

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has decided to further prove to Nigerians and the rest of the world who might still be in doubt about the demise of President Muhammadu Buhari, and how the the person supposedly ruling the affairs of the country is nothing but an impostor. He would be making a broadcast today at 7 pm Biafran time for the proof.

Kanu who had in the past with pictorial evidence proven countless times that the man seen currently as Nigeria’s president was no other but a double body impersonating the late …

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