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  • Ekweremadu: Southeast Governors read Riot Act to Nnamdi Kanu

    Southeast Governors Forum has warned the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, against any other attack on Southeast leaders when they travel abroad. In a statement signed by the chairman of the forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, the governors threatened to ensure his repatriation to Nigeria.   “We […]
  • Social media video triggers arrest of four Policemen over extrajudicial killings

    Lagos State police have apprehended four of their officers for extrajudicial killings, and have promised to charge them for murder if found culpable. The arrest was sequel to a video that went viral on social media of the four officers, believed to be attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), who engaged in extra-judicially killing […]
  • INEC Server: Atiku says no cause for alarm over Supreme Court’s ruling

    The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar says there is no cause for alarm over the Supreme Court’s ruling dismissing his claims to inspect the INEC server. Atiku, who addressed a news conference through his lead counsel, Eyitayo Jegede (SAN), after Tuesday’s proceedings, said the decision was anticipated and that proactive […]
  • Wadume: How Soldiers Killed Policemen, Cut My Handcuff and Set Me Free

    Arrested kidnap suspect, Hamisu Wadume, Tuesday provided details of his initial arrest, and how the soldiers of the 93 Battalion Takum, Taraba State, aided his escape. In a video posted on verified Police twitter handle, Wadume, who spoke in Hausa, said when he was arrested, soldiers pursued the police team and opened fire on them. […]
  • Buhari To Ministers-designate: Our Responsibility is to Improve Welfare of Nigerians

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday told ministers-designate and other presidential appointees that there was a collective responsibility to improve the welfare of majority of Nigerians. Buhari gave this charge on Tuesday at the closing ceremony of the Presidential Retreat for Ministers-Designate, Presidential Aides and other top government functionaries at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja. […]
  • Shiites Disown Spokesman Musa

    The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), aka Shiites, has disowned one Ibrahim Musa as its official spokesman. IMN affirmed that Musa is a supporter of the movement but not its official spokesman. “It (IMN) does not have any official spokesperson,” director, Sayyid Zakzaky’s office said on Tuesday. “So, therefore, we wish to announce that, one Mr. […]
  • Nnamdi Kanu commends IPOB attack on Ekweremadu

    The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) has commended members of the pro-independence Biafra group for assaulting a Nigerian Senator, and former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu. Ekweremadu was physically assaulted by some IPOB members in Nuremberg, Germany While many have condemned the attack on Ekweremadu, Kanu described it as a show of […]
  • Germany repatriates Nigerians 48 hours after Ekweremadu’s attack

    The German government has deported a new batch of Nigerian migrants, less than 48 hours after the attack on former Deputy President of the Senate Ike Ekweremadu, by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). According to reports, the migrants left Frankfurt Airport on Monday morning, and were expected to land in Nigeria’s Murtala Mohammed International […]
  • Abuja Indigenes Lose Bid to Stop Cabinet Inauguration

    Indigenes of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Monday failed in their bid to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from inuagurating the 43 ministerial nominees, following the refusal of the Federal High Court, Abuja to grant an order to that effect. Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court in a ruling on […]
  • Buhari tasks ministers-designate on nation’s challenges

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday challenged Ministers-designate to reflect and assess the country’s position in 2015 and now so as to chart a course for the country for the foreseeable future.The president gave the task when he declared open the two-day Presidential Retreat for Ministers-designate and Federal Permanent Secretaries at the State House conference hall, […]
  • Buhari to Tribunal: Atiku’s Petition is a Sham

    Details from the final address by lawyers to President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, revealed a spirited defence against the petition by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal describing it as a patent sham and lacking in merit. President Buhari was […]