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President Muhammadu Buhari has accused the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, of stockpiling weapons across Nigeria. Buhari, who spoke through his mouthpiece, Garba Shehu, said IPOB members killed security agents and set government facilities in the Southeast ablaze. He stated this in response to claims by the Amnesty International on human rights violation in the Southeast. Shehu, in a statement issued on Wednesday, lamented that Amnesty International was defending IPOB which is a terrorist group. He accused Amnesty International of backing a terrorist organisation against victims of IPOB. The statement titled: “Why Amnesty entreaties should be ignored”, reads partly: “Amnesty…

Anambra state has finally joined the league of Oil Producing States in Nigeria, as it will soon start to benefit from the thirteen percent Derivation fund. This is sequel to the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation And Fiscal Commission's approval of Governor Willie Obiano's request for due share of revenue accruing to the nation from oil and gas production activities in Anambra state. According to the approval letter through its secretary, Mr M.B. Shehu, and addressed to Governor Obiano, the Commission, approved the attribution of eleven oil wells wholly to Anambra state. It also approved attribution of Anambra River One, Two, and…

President Buhari to sack more ministers President Muhammadu Buhari has given a hint that more ministers may be relieved of their appointments. The president on Wednesday sacked the minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono and minister of Power, Saleh Mamman. While announcing the sack of the ministers, Mr Buhari said that “that this process shall be continuous”. Rad full text of the statement is reproduced below: On Wednesday 21st August, 2019 the current Federal Executive Council was sworn-in after a rigorous retreat to bring returning and new members up to speed on the accomplishments, challenges and lessons drawn…

President Muhammadu Buhari has relieved two ministers of their appointments. They are the Ministers of Agriculture, Mohammed Sabo Nanono and his Power counterpart, Engineer Saleh Mamman. Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), Femi Adesina, announced this on Wednesday. He said the Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abubakar has been redeployed to the Ministry of Agriculture while the Minister of State for Works, Engineer Abubakar Aliyu is to take over as Minister of Power. He said the exercise will continue to fill vacancies as prescribed in the constitution.

The ongoing 6-lane Port Harcourt Road project embarked upon by the Governor Okezie Ikpeazu-led Abia State government will be completed before May 2023 with at least one lane asphalted for use before the end of this year. The State's Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu who made this known while chatting with newsmen in Aba, the State's commercial nerve centre, recalled that work stopped temporarily on the road due to the Ndiegoro flood mediation project which intersected Porr Harcourt Road from the Uratta axis which is being handled NEWMAP. Chief Okiyi stated that the state government is devising an…

Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu,SAN, has signed into Law the Anti-Grazing Bill passed by the State House of Assembly. A statement by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo said the Governor Akeredolu signed the bill into Law in his office on Tuesday, August 31, 2021. "The move is in line with the resolution of the Southern Governors' Forum at its last meeting in Lagos where September 1st was set as the deadline for Governors in Southern Nigeria to sign the Anti-Open Grazing Bill into law. "This is worthwhile and a very laudable development aimed at stemming needless…

Global President of One Love Foundation, Chief Patrick Osagie Eholor has lambasted Governor Godwin Obaseki over the sorry state of major streets in Benin City. Eholor stated this in an interview with journalists while reacting to photographs and video of residents either swimming or stuck in water or struggling to wade through water as the rains turns Benin City into a lagoon. According to him, the sorry state of Benin City is largely due to the leadership failure of Governor Godwin Obaseki. He said; "Benin City under Obaseki is submerged with flood anytime it rains and becomes submerged with filth…

The IGP IRT unit, Head of Legal Department has again been ordered to oney court order and free Miss Glory Okolie. The IGP IRT unit, Head of Legal Departmenton had on 31st August 2021, allegedly approached the FCT High Court sitting at Maitama, Abuja presided over by Justice C Origi to upturn all interim orders made on Glory Okolie on the 27th August 2021. Our correspondent reports that the above information was made available by an individual who would not want his name mentioned in public. According to the information, the court presided over by Justice Origi once again implored…

Ejike Mbaka, spiritual director of Adoration Ministries, Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN), says the attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) shows that Nigeria is sinking. Mbaka said this while delivering his sermon on Sunday. The cleric warned that the attack is “just the beginning of the trouble”, adding that “the main trouble is coming”. He also called for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), saying his detention is not the solution to the country’s problems. “Did you not hear that yesterday (Saturday), bandits entered into our most secured place in this country, Nigerian Defence…

Elder Statesman and former Minister of Steel in the Second Republic, Wantaregh Paul Unongo has cautioned those castigating Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state for speaking out against the herdsmen attacks in his state and worsening insecurity in the country to refrain from their actions. The former Chairman of Northern Elders’ Forum, NEF, said the Benue Governor has not done anything outside his constitutional duties and has not descended to inciting crisis in the country as being alleged by the presidency. Unongo who spoke, Monday, at the Benue stakeholders meeting held in Makurdi put together by the State Government in…