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FG threatens to declare state of emergency in Anambra The Federal government Wednesday indicated that it is prepared to impose a state of emergency in Anambra to ensure the sanctity of the November 6 governorship election in the state. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, gave the hint while fielding questions from correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at the presidential villa, Abuja. He said nothing is ruled out in the determination to ensure a hitch-free exercise. The minister said: “When our national security is attacked, and the sanctity of our…

There seems to be a string of compounding woes for the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu is currently in the custody of Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) following his arrest in Kenya in June. However, his ongoing treason trial does not seem to be the end of his travails as international forces have now joined demands for the proscription of his group. The Federal Government had declared IPOB a terrorist organisation in 2017. Ivan Sheehan, an American academic who is the executive director of the school of public and international affairs at…

Senator Abdulazeez Abubakar Ibrahim, aged 67, died Tuesday night at the Federal Medical Center Jalingo after a brief illness. Sen Ibrahim who was elected in 1999 and 2003 to represent Taraba Central senatorial district was born in May 1957. Sen Ibrahim later contested for the governorship of the state in 2007 under the platform of the All Nigerian People’s Party but lost to the late Governor Danbaba Suntai. In a condolence message issued in Jalingo Wednesday morning, the Speaker of the state House of Assembly Professor Joseph Albasu Kunini described the late Ibrahim as a political enigma whose death is…

Your Excellency, Request To Pay Urgent Attention To The Dilapidated Benin-Sapele Road We are One Love Foundation, a foremost human rights advocacy group with membership across Nigeria, Canada, United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Italy and other countries of the world. We highly appreciates Your Excellency, Mr. President, for granting our request for the immediate probing of the activities of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), as well as the sacking of non performing ministers in your cabinet. May we use this opportunity to also thank you for the consistent progress of work in some federal roads across the country, including the…

Yoruba Group Says Alleged Indictment Of Peter Obi A Ploy To Divert Attention From Leadership Issues A South West socio-cultural group, Yoruba For National Renaissance (YNR) has expressed regret over a report published by a leading online newspaper in Nigeria, Premium Times in which a former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi was fingered in a Panama Paper as one of Nigerian leaders who allegedly laundered money overseas using the offshore shell. The group says the report is not only misleading but a sponsored campaign to smear the character of Obi whom it says not only maintained a high integrity…

President Muhammadu Buhari will present the 2022 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly on Thursday. The Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, disclosed this on Tuesday in the Senate Chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja. He made the announcement while presiding over the plenary as the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, was absent. Before the announcement, Senator Omo-Agege informed the lawmakers that President Buhari has submitted the revised 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework MTEF and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP). In a letter addressed to the Senate, the President urged the lawmakers to approve the planning…

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook are currently down for many users. The three apps – which are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure – all completely stopped working shortly before 5pm. Other products that are part of the same family of apps, such as Facebook Workplace, also stopped working. Visitors to the Facebook website simply saw an error page or a message that their browser could not connect. The WhatsApp and Instagram apps continued to work, but did not show new content, including any messages sent or received during the problems.Prin

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has called the attention of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, to attempts by unidentified staff to turn the port to a Christian crusade camp. The warning was contained in a press statement circulated on Monday by the group’s director and founder, Prof. Ishaq Akintola. The MURIC cited the example of some senior staff of NPA giving out Christian literature as parting gifts to official visitors to the facility. The statement reads: “The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is now in the habit of giving Christian literature as gifts to its visitors. “A group of people who…

Governors of South South geo-political zone are currently meeting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital. The governors of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa , Delta, Rivers, Cross River and Edo States are members of the South South Governors’ Forum. The agenda of the meeting is yet to be revealed to journalists but sources said issues concerning open grazing, security and economic well being of South South geo-political zone may be discussed at the meeting.

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, head of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to reveal the names of Boko Haram sponsors. The cleric described Nigeria as a broken country decomposing from within while “lives are hemorrhaging by the day”. Kukah spoke at the priestly ordination of five deacons at the Holy Family Cathedral. The church released his sermon on Sunday, the weekend of Nigeria’s independence celebration. The bishop lamented why the Buhari administration was refusing to expose the names of Boko Haram sponsors. In September, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) published the names of six Nigerians prosecuted…