The Igbos in Nigeria Movement (INM) has condemned the killing of innocent citizens by members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) on Monday in Orlu, Imo State. The group, in a statement on Tuesday, said such lawlessness is unacceptable in the interest of peace and tranquillity in the South-East and South-South. Recall that fugitive leader of the […]
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Inter-faith clerics end 21 days prayers for Nigeria, Buhari’s administration
The National Inter-Faith and Religious Organizations for Peace (NIFROP), on Monday, wrapped up its 21 days intercessory prayers for Nigeria and President Muhammadu Buhari. The three-week-long spiritual exercise came to a halt at the Unity Fountain, Abuja, with hundreds of respected Christian and Muslim clerics in attendance. In his address, Sheik Abubakar Idris said in the course […]
Southwest’s lingering conflagration and its political undertone
By Rotimi Akinbile Finally, the missing link in the puzzle unfolding in Southwest Nigeria has been discovered with the recent expose by no less a person than Babafemi Ojudu, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on political matters. Ojudu in a widely circulated piece he wrote, narrated how a meeting was arranged between Southwest political […]
Gov Zulum’s Victory Bell at Biu
By Charles Ibekwe Since the onset of the Boko Haram insurgency in North-East, Nigeria in 2009, Nigeria has witnessed a period classified as one of the most trying in its history. I would say that the Boko Haram insurgency was underestimated. Consequently, conventional tactics were deployed in an asymmetric war. And the outcome of such […]
Southwest security: Group petitions IGP, wants Tinubu investigated
The Northern Patriot Assembly, NPA has submitted a petition to the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu to demand an immediate investigation of APC Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu over the lingering security breach in the South Western part of the country. The group also wants the IGP to withdraw policemen attached to the Ondo State Governor […]
Effium mayhem: AESID wants Umahi, council boss probed
Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in the Diaspora, AESID, has called on the security agencies to probe Governor David Umahi and the chairman of the Ohaukwu Local Government Area, Clement Odah, over an alleged communal clash between the Effium and Effium indigenes of Ezza extraction, leading to the death of over 40 people. President of […]
Leave Nigerian military alone, group begs ICC, Amnesty International
The Congress for Human Rights in Nigeria (CHRN) has asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Amnesty International to steer clear of the Armed Forces of Nigeria while alleging them of taking side with Boko Haram terrorists. The human rights group, which made this known at a world press conference on Monday in Lagos, alleged […]
Oyo Crisis: Group wants Tinubu arrested over threats to Fulanis
The National Coordinator of Northern Patriots Assembly has called out Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the National leader of the All Progressives Party (APC) over the crisis between Yoruba youths and Fulani herdsmen in the Southwest. Recall that Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo Igboho, had issued a quit notice to the Hausa-Fulani in Igangan, Oke Ogun area of […]
Ebonyi PDP: AESID hails judgment, CP, warns against government intimidation
The Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in the Diaspora (AESID) has warned the state government to stop intimidating Judges in the cause of their duties, even as it commended the new Commissioner of Police for being professional. The Ebonyi indigenes said the agents of state government were trying to manipulate the judiciary into causing trouble […]
Group asks FG, African nations to sanction Trump, others
Nigeria and other African nations have been urged to impose sanctions on immediate past U.S President, Donald Trump and top officials of his administration over worsened diplomatic relationship between the United States and the continent. According to civil society group, All Lives Matter in Nigeria (ALMN) at a world press conference on Sunday in Abuja, […]