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Okorocha: Igbo Presidency Not Realistic Without North

December 8, 2019 3:07 am
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A former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha saturday said that Igbo presidency was not possible without support of the north, saying Igbo alone could not make themselves the President of Nigeria in 2023.

Okorocha, currently representing Imo West Senatorial District, however warned that ethnicity and religion should not be a factor in politics in the country, noting that poverty “does not know any religion or ethnicity.”

He made the remarks at a session with journalists yesterday in Abuja, where he expressed concern about the …

‘Mega Fire’ Forms North Of Sydney

December 6, 2019 2:40 pm

Several Australian bushfires have combined to form a “mega fire” that is burning out of control across a swathe of land north of Sydney, authorities said Friday, warning they cannot contain the blaze.

New South Wales Rural Fire Service deputy commissioner, Rob Rogers said “there are probably more than eight fires in all” that have merged to form what has been dubbed a “mega fire” in an area of national park forest.

The blaze was burning across 300,000 hectares — an area roughly 60 kilometres (37 miles) across — within an hour’s drive of Australia’s largest city, which was again …

North Korea’s Kim In New Horse Ride Through Winter Snows

December 4, 2019 2:36 pm

North Korean media published fresh pictures Wednesday of leader Kim Jong Un riding a white horse on a sacred mountain, imagery that experts say is heavy with symbolism and may indicate a policy announcement.

The photos come as nuclear talks with the United States are stalled and with a looming end-of-year deadline set by North Korea for some kind of concession from Washington.

Kim — in a black leather trenchcoat he has worn recently to open a flagship construction project and supervise a weapons test — was pictured leading a squad of riders in a white forest near Mount

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North Korea Blasts Abe, Warns Of ‘Real Ballistic Missile’

November 30, 2019 5:16 am
North Korea on Saturday warned Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he could soon see a “real ballistic missile” while excoriating him as the “most stupid man ever known in history”.
The colourful condemnation comes two days after the isolated state tested what it called a “super-large multiple launch rocket system”, with South Korea reporting that two projectiles came down in the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea.

In the wake of the launch, which was supervised by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Abe termed the fired weapons “ballistic missiles” that violated UN resolutions.

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Masari Urges North-west Govs To Disarm Repentant Bandits

November 29, 2019 9:17 am

The Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari has urged North-west governors and security agencies to adopt holistic approach that would ensure the disarmament and rehabilitation of repentant bandits in the region.

Masari, who initiated a peace deal in the state that has so far led to the release of 91 captives by the bandits, said the disarmament of the repentant bandits would eradicate what he termed as pocks of attacks in the North western states.

The Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari has urged North-west governors and security agencies to adopt holistic approach that would ensure the disarmament and rehabilitation

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North-East State Assemblies Initiate Bill To Regulate NGOs

November 23, 2019 9:07 am

The State Houses of Assembly of the six North-east states of  Adamawa,  Bauchi, Borno, Yobe, Gombe and Taraba, have introduced a bill to regulate and co-ordinate the activities of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the Boko Haram insurgents ravaged region.

This may not be unconnected to the recent allegation made by the Nigerian military that some NGOs under the guise of providing succour to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are fronting for the Boko Haram insurgents.

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The   Chairman of North East Speakers Forum (NESF) and the Speaker of Bauchi State House …

Otedola Doles Out ₦5bn For North-East Intervention

November 11, 2019 11:58 am
Billionaire entrepreneur and Executive Chairman of Geregu Power Plc, Mr. Femi Otedola, has donated N5 billion to Save the Children charity to support its intervention in the North-East.

This is arguably the largest individual donation to charity in Nigeria’s history.

Otedola made the donation, yesterday,  at the ball organised by the Cuppy Foundation to raise funds for Save the Children, the 100-year United Kingdom-based charity.

Cuppy Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded by Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola (aka DJ Cuppy), who is Femi Otedola’s daughter.

Speaking at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, while making his presentation, Otedola pledged to devote his …

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2023: APC Wont Zone Presidency To North – Prof. Itse Sagay

November 9, 2019 9:00 am

Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, has told the North not to think of contesting the 2023 presidential election, as it is the turn of the South to produce the next president of Nigeria. In this interview with VINCENT KALU, the legal luminary gave conditions Igbo must fulfil to succeed Buhari.

Nigeria is more divided now than even during the civil war, why and how can this division be arrested?

Yes. Nigeria is more divided now because a lot of people who were living on free Nigerian money which they didn’t work for; which were depleting …

Jubilation In Abia North Over Kalu’s Appeal Court Victory

November 9, 2019 8:01 am

It was jubilation galore in Abia North Senatorial District, when the news of the victory of the Chief Whip of the Senate, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu filtered into town.

Kalu, the former governor of Abia State had won the February 23 National Assembly election for Abia North Senatorial District on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), beating his closest rival, Mao Ohuabunwa of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Ohuabunwa, unhappy with Kalu’s declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), went to the elections tribunal sitting in Umuahia, which last month gave a judgment that was considered, ‘controversial’, …

North Korea Slams Planned US Military Drills With South

North Korea Slams Planned US Military Drills With South

November 6, 2019 3:24 pm

North Korea on Wednesday slammed Washington for plans to conduct a joint military exercise with Seoul next month, as negotiations over Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal remain deadlocked.

The allies cancelled the combined air exercise known as Vigilant Ace along with several other joint drills last year amid a rapid diplomatic thaw with the North, which considers them a rehearsal for invasion.

But Pentagon spokesman David Eastburn said this week that the US had “no plans to skip upcoming combined exercises” this year.

A senior North Korean official said Wednesday that the …

Uproar Over Confinement, Torture Facilities In The North

Uproar Over Confinement, Torture Facilities In The North

November 3, 2019 11:29 am

Recently, Nigerians were naturally horrified upon seeing the emaciated inmates who were released by security operatives following the discovery of rehabilitation centres in Kaduna, Kwara and some other northern cities, where they had been held in torturous confinement.

The revelation that such degree of dehumanisation had been going on under the nose of the authorities and within the communities triggered big shock among the citizenry.

People wondered how such atrocious activities could have been carried on and hidden for so long in open view, to the extend that the concerned state governments were ignorant of the goings on at the …

North Korea’s Kim Orders Demolition Of South-Built Resort

North Korea’s Kim Orders Demolition Of South-Built Resort

October 23, 2019 2:00 am

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has condemned a flagship tourist development with the South as an eyesore and ordered its demolition, state media reported Wednesday, in a stark illustration of dire relations between Pyongyang and Seoul.

The Mount Kumgang tourist complex was built by Southern company Hyundai Asan in the North on one of the peninsula’s most scenic mountains, drawing hundreds of thousands of Southern visitors.

But tours came to an abrupt end in 2008 after a North Korean soldier shot dead a Southern tourist who strayed off the approved path and Seoul suspended travel.

Pyongyang had long wanted …

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