Court says IPOB leader’s abduction unlawful, slams executive for recklessness There was wild jubilation in the South-East on Thursday following the Court of Appeal judgment which quashed the terrorism charges preferred against the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. Across parts of the South-East states, people celebrated openly on hearing the […]
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Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Adolphus Wabara has called for sacrifice on the part of stakeholders to enable the party resolve its protracted leadership crisis. He made the call at the Abuja PDP national secretariat on Friday while submitting the report of a reconciliation committee drawn […]
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PDP BoT meeting; Photo: Facebook: Nuru Jos The Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party is currently holding a meeting. The National Chairman of the Party, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, and other party stakeholders are present at the meeting. This is as the crisis in the opposition PDP continues to deepen, and as the Governor […]
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On Tuesday, June 29, 2021, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, announced in a press conference in Abuja that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, had been arrested and extradited to Nigeria from Kenya, after being intercepted in the East African country on Sunday, June 26, […]
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Court: FG’s abduction, rendition of Kanu breached all local, international laws Kanu’s freedom positive step towards Biafra restoration – MASSOB Ohanaeze Ndigbo: FG should not appeal Kanu’s victory, it’s time for dialogue Members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday, went into wild jubilation in the Southeast following the discharge and acquittal of […]
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University of Lagos, UNILAG By Banji Ayoola At last, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old strike, ending the distress into which university students, many of whom had been suffering untold socio-economic hardship and indignities, had been thrown since they were compulsorily sent home in February. The union suspended the strike […]
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By Banji Ayoola Restructuring Nigeria into a balanced federation; power shift to the South after being wielded by a northerner for the past eight years; and establishment of state police to redress the worsening security challenges across the land are urgent necessities to put the country on a firm footing, which can never be swept […]
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Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has insisted that the resignation of Dr. Iyorchia Ayu as National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) remains the only precursor for reconciliation in the party. The Governor said nobody could convince him to drop the request of his group that the PDP should yield the national chairmanship position to […]
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Four South-south Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have been assigned to plead with their Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, to support the party’s presidential candidate and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the February 25, 2023 election. The Governors saddled with the responsibility are: Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom State); Douye Diri (Bayelsa); […]
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Spokesman of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, says the manifesto of the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has been reviewed and approved by the party’s stakeholders. He disclosed this while addressing journalists immediately after Wednesday’s meeting which Tinubu had with the Progressive Governors Forum, the Presidential Campaign Council and members […]
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