Igbo youths have warned some South East leaders not negotiate with the Federal Government on their behalf over the mass protests for the actualisation of the Biafra Republic. This came, Saturday, against the backdrop of reports that some Igbo leaders promised to crush the agitators for the Biafra Republic at a recent meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. “The wide gulf between the Igbo masses and the political class is about to be widened dangerously,” a statement signed by the Founder of Igbo Youth Movement (IYM) and Leader of the South East Democratic Coalition, Evangelist Elliot Uko, said. “The mindless strategy…
Author: Wale Adebayo
Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters (DHQ) yesterday announced a restructuring of the Operation Lafiya Dole in the North East, which it said was aimed at re-positioning it for more efficiency, effectiveness and combat readiness in the discharge of its assigned tasks of crushing the remnant of Boko Haram Terrorists. Subsequently, a new Theatre Commander has been appointed, the Director of Defence Information, Rabe Abubakar, has said. The new theatre commander is Maj.-Gen. Hassan Umoru. Until his appointment, Umoru was the General Officer Commanding, 3 Division Nigerian Army, Jos, Plateau State. Umoru is succeeding Yusha’u Mahmood Abubakar, a Major General, who was appointed four…
Shiite spokesman, Ebrahim Musa, has accused the Nigerian Army of burying the bodies of hundreds of victims of an alleged military massacre of Shiite Muslims to hide the death toll. The spokesman said soldiers took the bodies from the mortuary of Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital and buried them in mass graves on Wednesday. “The Nigerian army has desecrated our dead,” Musa said. “We hereby demand the location of the mass burial, and the interrogation of those who ordered the operation.” Commenting on the alleged killings, Senator Shehu Sani, who hails from Kano State and a human rights activist, said: “The Zaria killings…
Punch Nigeria Limited, publishers of the PUNCH titles, has suspended its NPAN membership. This move is not unconnected with the controversial payment of N120 million to the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN) through the Publisher of ThisDay Newspaper, Nduka Obaigbena, The company communicated the decision to the NPAN in a letter dated Thursday, December 17 and signed by its chairman, Wale Aboderin. Recall that investigations into how $2.1billion allegedly meant for arms procurement was spent had revealed that Mr. Obaigbena collected N120 million from the embattled former NSA, Sambo Dasuki, on behalf of 12 newspapers, whose circulation were disrupted…
The elected of Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said the nullification of elections of the party’s governors was aimed at taking control of “oil-producing states by all means necessary” by the governing All Progressives Congress (APC). Reacting to the nullification of the election of Akwa Ibom State governor, Udom Emmanuel, by the Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday, the governors said the judgments were part of the grand plan of the APC to take over the state. The ruling came about 72 hours after the Court of Appeal, also sitting in Abuja, nullified the election of…
Nigeria Police Command in Sokoto State has banned indefinitely all forms of processions by all religious groups across the 23 local government areas of the state. This is contained in a statement by the spokesman of the state police command, El-Mustapha Sani, and issued to newmen in Sokoto yesterday. “The action is to maintain law and order in the state and the country, in view of the recent obnoxious happenings in some parts of Nigeria. “This is also in order not to allow hoodlums to hijack such processions by any religious groups. “Subsequently, all members of the general public are…
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), yesterday impounded a truck loaded with Indian hemp worth over N15 million in Akwanga, Nasarawa State. The NDLEA Area Commander in charge of Akwanga and Kokona Local Government Areas, Mr Saidu Salihu, disclosed this to newsmen in Akwanga. According to the NDLEA area commander, the truck was impounded after knocking down and killing three street hawkers at Alushi Village, near Akwanga. He, however, said the occupants of the vehicle fled the scene after the accident. “The villagers later got there and discovered that the truck was loaded with hard drugs and contacted the agency.…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to nail anyone found guilty in the ongoing anti-corruption campaign. The Board of Trustees (BoT) Secretary, Senator Walid Jibrin, who made this known while speaking with reporters at the party’s secretariat in Abuja on Friday, said the party would support any leader who is ready to rid the nation of corruption. Senator Jibrin’s comment came on the heels of ongoing corruption and money laundering trial of former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki and other PDP chieftains. According to the BoT scribe, the PDP would support every…
Following a directive by the Federal Government for universities to retrench workers of University Staff Schools, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has threatened to declare an indefinite strike. Mr Samson Ugwoke who is the National President of the association, made the plan known at a news conference in Abuja on Friday. He said that failure by the government to honour the agreement between it and SSANU on the schools would compel the association to declare an indefinite strike “SSANU wishes to notify the Federal Government of our intention to resume our national industrial action on rejection of…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has revealed that the pump price of petrol may sell for less than the current official price of N87/litre before the end of the first quarter of 2016. The announcement is coming on the heels of the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC) resuming production of petroleum products beginning from Saturday, December 19. According to the NNPC, the current pricing template for petrol, which was prepared by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, contains glaring inefficiencies that deserve to be looked into. The Group General Manager, Corporate Planning and Strategy of the NNPC, Mr.…