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Apr

2022

Presidency: Keep off Southeast, you denied being Igbo man – IPOB warns Wike

Metro, Politics2023, Biafra, IPOB, Next Level, Nigeria, Nyesom Wike, Opinion, Politics

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Wednesday warned Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and Presidential aspirant to steer clear of the Southeast. IPOB said Wike denied having any links with the Southeast in the past, hence should keep off the region as he tries to canvas for votes. Emma Powerful, the spokesman of IPOB, issued the warning while condemning Wike’s recent visit to the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe. Recalling the killings in Obigbo, Rivers State, IPOB vowed to go all out against anybody who hosts Wike in the Southeast. In a statement, Powerful said the Peoples…

Apr

2022

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I Will Give My All To Birth And Berth The Nigeria Of Our Dreams. -GYB.

Politics2023, All Progressives Congress, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics, Yahaya Bello

There has been a massive hoopla in the public space about the 100million fixed by our great Party the All Progressive Congress APC as cost for the Presidential Nomination Form. Typical of everything Nigerian the many discussants and ideologues have left unattended the reason the Party put such a huge amount as the cost for Presidential normination form. But does the Party not have the right to prune down the number of contestants/Aspirants? Does the Party not have the right to manage what would become a tortuous Presidential Primaries by reducing the number of Aspirants the way it deems best?…

Apr

2022

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ASUU Strike Is An Injury To Nigeria’s Young Population, Says Ibe Okwara Osonwa

Abia North, Abia State, Education, PoliticsAbia State, Education, Ibe Okwara, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics

A frontline House of Representatives aspirant for Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency, Ibe Okwara Osonwa has called for meaningful dialogue between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resolve the lingering crisis in the Nigerian University system. Osonwa stated this on Wednesday morning at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja, noting that the current strike by ASUU was affecting the youth population negatively. Osonwa, while describing himself as a youth said, "This will forestall Idle students from being easily recruited by terrorists, kidnappers, bandits, cultists and other criminal gangs." Osonwa also advised government to address the spate…

Apr

2022

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Umuahia Central Constituency: Afaraukwu Youths Insist power must cede to them in 2023

Abia State, Politics2023, Abia State, Next Level, Nigeria, Politics, Umuahia State Constituency

In the build-up to the political contest for the Abia State House of Assembly representation for Umuahia Central State Constituency in 2023, the Youths of Afaraukwu Ibeku Community made up of 3 autonomous communities (Okwulaga, Enyiukwu & Isiama) have insisted that power must be ceded to Afaraukwu in tandem with the existing power-sharing arrangement in the constituency. This call was contained in a communique issued by youths of Afaraukwu Community and made available to OHAFIA TV News, after a well-constituted emergency meeting of the leadership of the respective autonomous communities over the weekend. Among other contentious issues, the youths maintained…

Apr

2022

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FCT seeks legal advice as Osinachi’s Autopsy report is out

MetroCrime, Metro, Osinachi Nwachukwu, RIP

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command on Monday said it transferred the case of the late lead singer of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Osinachi Nwachukwu, to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions. Osinachi died on April 8 and was said to be a victim of domestic violence. On April 10, her husband, Peter, was arrested after the younger brother of the late singer reported the matter to the police. The case was transferred from the Lugbe Police Division to the State Criminal Investigation Department the following day. A verified source said that the autopsy report had been released, adding that the…

Apr

2022

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Abba Kyari: Drug baron with 103 bank accounts nabbed at Lagos airport

Health, MetroAbba Kyari, Crime, Health, NDLEA, Nigeria, Police

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested Chief Afam Ukatu, who it described as the billionaire drug baron behind the N3bn tramadol deal involving a suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police and former leader of the Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari. A statement on Monday by the spokesperson for the agency, Femi Babafemi, said he was arrested “after months of surveillance and evading arrest.” According to Babafemi, Ukatu, who is the chairman of Mallinson Group of Companies, was nabbed onboard a flight to Abuja at the MM2 terminal of the Lagos airport, Ikeja, on Wednesday, April 13. He said, “Investigations…

Apr

2022

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Kaduna Pastor, Ade Abraham, Bills Church Members N310,000 Each To ‘Fly Them To Heaven’

MetroCrime, Metro, Nigeria, Religion

Ade Abraham, the pastor of Christ High Commission Ministry, also known as Royal Christ Assembly, Kaduna State, has convinced members of his church to relocate to a camp in Ekiti State with him, in order to “prepare for the end of the world”. According to FIJ, one of Abraham’s congregants said that the pastor first relocated to Ekiti State from Kaduna State, where he was formerly based, in 2020. He then later returned to Kaduna State in April to ask each member of his church to pay him N310,000 before they would be allowed to follow him to Omuo-Ekiti, where…

Apr

2022

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‘We are waiting for you’ IPOB dares Herdsmen over threat to take over Igboland

MetroBiafra, Crime, ESN, Freedom, Herdsmen, IPOB, Metro, Nigeria, Security

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has replied to the alleged threat by some group of herders to attack and take over the entire South-1East geopolitical zone. According to reports, there has been threat by the herdsmen to invade the region and take over the land as they have done to other places across the country. The spokesman of the secessionist group, Emma Powerful, while reacting to a statement by a former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, lamenting the killings in Benue State by suspected Fulani herdsmen, said they are waiting for them (herdsmen) to do their worst in…

Apr

2022

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Billionaire Elon Musk reaches agreement to buy Twitter for $44bn

EconomyAmerica, Economy, Elon Musk, Twitter, World News

Billionaire, Elon Musk, has reached an agreement to buy Twitter for approximately $44 billion, the company has confirmed. Musk acquired the company at $54.20 a share, the same price named in his initial offer on April 14. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” Musk said in a statement included with the release. “I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots,…

Apr

2022

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Rt. Rev. Daniel Imo: True Liberation 2023.

Abia North, Abia State, Politics2023, Abia State, Comr Amos Kalu, Next Level, Nigeria, Ohafia, Opinion, Politics, Rev. Dan Imo

By Dave Uma Are you aware that there are people who never believed or even imagined that certain things that had gone wrong in the past could still be changed for the better? Especially due to the conditional state of mind of an average electorate as a result of institutionalised maladministration that has forced the people to accept defeat at all times, with no ray of hope for the future full of uncertainties. But in reality, this is a very wrong impression our people have had about the way we play politics in our constituency and beyond, mostly because there…