Nnamdi Kanu hails IPOB attack on Ekweremadu as ‘polite warning’

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) on Sunday commended members of the secessionist group for assaulting a Nigerian Senator Ike Ekweremadu. “The courageous act by IPOB at Nürnberg Germany is a polite warning to those engaged in selling our collective interest to Fulani caliphate,” Kanu tweeted on Sunday. Ekweremadu was physically assaulted on […]

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24-hr centre to check drug, chemical abuse takes off in Nigeria

Hope of survival has  risen for Nigerians exposed to untoward effects of drugs, substances of abuse and poisons as the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, upscaled its information centre to a 24-hour National Drug and Poisons Information, Emergency Response and Research Centre. To this end, an eight-storey building estimated at N2.6 billion to house all […]

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Southeast governors condemn attack on Ekweremadu

The Southeast Governors Forum has decried the reported attack on the former Deputy Senate President, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, allegedly by some members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) at an Igbo summit in Beremburg, Germany. Reacting to the incident on Sunday in Abakaliki, the Chairman of the forum, Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi, […]

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I’ve done nothing wrong, will clear my name – Siasia

Official statement coming Former Nigeria coach Samson Siasia is not in a rush to appeal against a decision by FIFA to ban him for life from all football-related activities. Football’s world governing body handed Siasia, who managed the Super Eagles between 2010 and 2011 and for a spell in 2016, the ban on Friday for […]

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Nigeria loses N1,085t daily to fuel smuggling

A tricycle specially designed for fuel smuggling is parked close to the Nigerian-Benin border post in Seme-Kpodji, Republic of Benin on April 6, 2019. Photo: Tonye Bakare Investigations have shown that daily, an estimated seven million litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), better known as petrol, valued at N1, 085t is smuggled from Nigeria to […]

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Economic values of Akure – Oda Road dualisation

By Moses Ojo Having handled the Community Pages of the Ondo State Government owned newspaper, The Hope, for over three years between 2011 and 2015, which earned me the 2013 Ondo State NUJ Best Community Reporter of The Year Award, I have traversed the entire nooks and crannies of the sunshine state. Consequently, I can […]

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Ex-governors in political wilderness after 2019 polls

The 2019 elections have come and gone. So also is the nomination of candidates for ministerial slots in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet. But it has been different strokes for different folks with respect to the political class. While many are savouring the joy of victory, others are writhing in the agony of defeat. The latter […]

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El-Zakzaky tells own story in video as daughter raises alarm on health status

The image painted by Suhaila the daughter of Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, while giving updates on her father’s medical condition, was frightening. She told newsmen that she was afraid of her father’s medical condition, noting that his organs would fail anytime. Her words, “I am really worried… especially […]

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Sudanese celebrate transition to civilian rule

Sudan’s constitutional declaration which was signed on Saturday August 17, 2019 paves the way for a transition to civilian rule in the African nation and comes months after the ouster of autocratic President Omar al-Bashir AFP / Ebrahim Hamid Rapturous crowds filled the streets of Khartoum Saturday as Sudan’s generals and protest leaders signed a […]

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