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A militant group, Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders (NDRC), has threatened to resume attacks on oil installations in the region. NDRC said it would resume attacks on oil installations due to the three per cent allocated to host communities in the recently passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) by the National Assembly. Spokesperson of the group, WO 1 Izon-Ebi, described the percentage allocation to host communities as unfavourable. Izon-Ebi, in a statement, said the PIB is a coup against people of Niger Delta, adding that it would fight until the bill is reviewed. The group warned that its commanders have returned to…

The Federal Government has claimed to a Federal High Court in Lagos that it did not stop Nigerians from using microblogging platform, Twitter. According to the Federal Government, many Nigerians have access to the social media platform and they are still using it every day. This was said in a counter-affidavit lodged by the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, in response to a motion filed by human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong. Recall that the Federal Government had on June 4, surprisingly announced a suspension of Twitter activities in the country. In the statement announcing the ban, the minister cited…

The Eastern Intelligentsia Coalition (EIC) has said that releasing the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, unconditionally will reverse allegations of ethnic and religious bigotry levelled against the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government. In a statement released in Enugu yesterday, the group also stated that a return to peace in the country was possible, should the Federal Government shore up the trust deficit it created since 2015 by releasing all political prisoners, especially Igbo youths, profiled as terrorists, and being meted with the worst treatments, tortured in various detention centres or even killed extra-judicially. The statement was…

The hearing of a case against the Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, lasted for more than six hours on Thursday at Cour De’appal De Cotonou, Benin Republic. Igboho, who was arrested at Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou on Monday night, is being tried for immigration-related offences. After three sessions, the court ordered the release of Igboho’s wife, Ropo, while the activist was returned to cell. The sessions started at 10am and ended at about 8pm, but there were intermittent breaks during the hearing. The hearing was adjourned till Friday, but it was gathered that the court…

The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) has said the Nigerian government is capable of defeating the ravaging terrorists and bandits killing and maiming its people in Kaduna State. The union, however, said that the government is only interested in silencing activists from the Southern region of the country such as Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, more commonly called Sunday Igboho. SOKAPU stated this in a release by its President, Mr Jonathan Asake, which was made available to SaharaReporters on Thursday by the spokesman, Mr Luka Binniyat. The group stated…

Supporters of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, were tensed on Thursday as Court D’Apeal of Cotonou began hearing in an extradition case involving the Yoruba rights activists. It was gathered that many of the supporters, who did not know when the Yoruba rights activist arrived in court, trooped into the courtroom to see him. One of the supporters said Igboho and his wife, Ropo looked pale. “Oosa (Igboho) is here. We are about to start the hearing. His case has been called. Everywhere is peaceful but there is tension here,” he whispered on the telephone.…

Convener of Concerned Nigerian, Deji Adeyanju, has commended the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enita Ogunwusi, for the step taken on the arrest of Yoruba agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho. The Ooni of Ife had constituted a 28-man committee to brainstorm on the issues surrounding the arrest of Igboho. DAILY POST reported that the group is made up of eminent Yoruba leaders. Reacting, Adeyanju said Southeast leaders, whom he accused of being afraid, should be ashamed. In a tweet, the activist maintained that self determination was not a crime. According to Adeyanju: “BREAKING: Ooni sets up committee…

Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has said he would stand surety for the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, given the same circumstances. Abaribe had stood surety for Kanu before he jumped bail and fled the country in 2017. When he featured on TVC’s Journalists Hangout on Wednesday, the lawmaker explained that he stood surety for Kanu because it was a condition imposed by the court. According to Abaribe, the court ordered that one of the sureties must be a Senator, and as the Chairman of the Southeast Senators Caucus then, he had to offer…

The lead counsel for arrested Yoruba Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, has described as inhuman, the treatment his client is being subjected to in the custody of the police in Benin Republic. The counsel, Chief Yomi Alliyu SAN, stated on Tuesday that his client was chained inside the cell, tortured on the hand and forced to cry like a baby. The lawyer confirmed that Igboho wept when they spoke on the telephone on Tuesday. He said Igboho’s wife, Ropo, a German citizen, who was arrested together with the activist, was also kept in a separate cell by the…

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has dismissed a suit seeking to nullify the election of Senator Hope Uzodinma and his Deputy, Prof Placid Njoku and to declare the governorship seat of Imo State vacant. Trial judge, Justice Taiwo Taiwo on Monday, held that the applicant, Mcfyne Chikwedu, had no locus standi, adding that the suit was “patently non-justiciable.” The judge noted that Uzodinma’s election had been affirmed by the Supreme Court and his court was not an election tribunal that could sit on appeal over elections conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The judge ordered Chikwedu…