Month: September 2017

The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, John Odigie-Oyegun has joined Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in meeting with former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff. Oyegun arrived the Vice President’s Office at exactly 4.45pm. Sheriff, a former member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who was until recently the chairman of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), arrived Osinbajo’s office at about 3:30pm. Sheriff was reported to have been approached by the APC stakeholders in the state to rejoin their fold; a report that had been described…

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Following the gruesome murder of Joy Odama, a 200 level student of Cross River State University of Technology (CRUTECH), the state governor commonly referred as ‘digital governor’, Prof Ben Ayade, on Wednesday vowed to pursue to the case till Supreme Court to get justice. Ayade, who was represented by the director-general, Cross River State Due Process and Price Intelligence Bureau, Barr Alphonsus Ogar Eba, spoke in Abuja at a world press conference said he has instructed the state attorney general to liais with the office of the attorney general of…

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Ebute, ex-senate president writes UN, says IPOB could trigger genocide in Nigeria Ameh Ebute, Nigeria’s senate president during the end of the third republic, has written a letter to the UN over the proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The former lawmaker said the group, which he described as a terrorist sect, was capable of causing “mass genocide” in Nigeria. IPOB, led by Nnamdi Kanu, was proscribed by the governors of the south-east after the military branded it a terrorist organisation. There have been different reactions to the…

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A Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Transparency and Good Governance has warned that the Nnamdi Kanu led Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) will be worse than Boko Haram if not urgently tackled. The coalition noted that before its proscription by the military and southeast governors, IPOB had exhibited all the characteristics of a terrorists group to the extent that it had become the metaphor for describing the southern equivalent of Boko Haram led by Abubakar Shekau. Speaking at a press conference in Abuja this morning , the National Coordinator…

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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, on Monday evening, denied the reports that the military ever tagged the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a terrorist group. He said rather, what the army did was to make a pronouncement on IPOB which, according to him, was not “a declaration per se.” He said what the federal government is doing regarding the group is the right thing. Recall that few hours ago, the President of the Nigerian Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki had condemned the tagging of IPOB as…

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The wife of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Mrs. Dolapo Osinbajo will be the Special Guest of Honour at the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission’s Greater Women Pilgrimage Convocation scheduled for 21st September, 2017 at the National Women Development Centre, Garki, Abuja. She would equally present the keynote address at the occasion. The Executive Secretary of NCPC, Rev. Tor Uja confirmed this in Abuja. He explained that Mrs Osinbajo has graciously accepted to grace the occasion so as to give women the needed support and encouragement towards the mobilization of Greater Women…

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The Prof Ben Ayade-led Cross River State government has concluded plans to pursue the murder case of the late Joy Odama, a 200-level student of Cross River State University of Technology (CRUTECH). The state government revealed this through the director-general of the Cross River State Due Process and Price Intelligence, Barrister Alphonsus Ogar Eba, who led a delegation to visit the parents of the deceased and leaders of the Yala Community in Abuja, on Monday. Eba, who conveyed the condolences of the state government to the family and the Yala…

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I will continue to fight corruption in Nigeria until it is completely exterminated from our body polity, President Muhammadu Buhari, said on Monday. According to the president, his administration will fulfill its vow of eliminating all forms of corrupt practices in Nigeria so as to put the country on the path of greatness and prosperity. Buhari disclosed this at the 2017 Annual National Management Conference of the Nigerian Institute of Management in Abuja. He was represented by the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita. “To set this…

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will continue to fight corruption in Nigeria until it is completely exterminated from our body polity, President Muhammadu Buhari, said on Monday. According to the president, his administration will fulfill its vow of eliminating all forms of corrupt practices in Nigeria so as to put the country on the path of greatness and prosperity. Buhari disclosed this at the 2017 Annual National Management Conference of the Nigerian Institute of Management in Abuja. He was represented by the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita. “To set this country…

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