Nigeria

NDLEA to investigate 6 Houses, Plaza with 100 Shops belonging to Abba Kyari

NDLEA to investigate 6 Houses, Plaza with 100 Shops belonging to Abba Kyari

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Monday marked six residential houses and one plaza belonging to the embattled former Intelligence Response Team leader, Abba Kyari, in Maiduguri as being under investigation. The two-storey shopping plaza, Assurance Plaza, located along the Giwa Barracks Road in Maiduguri, has about 100 stores. Six other residential houses within the Maiduguri New Government Residential Area allegedly belonging to the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police had also been marked NDLEA. This is coming barely 48 hours after a suspected drug dealer linked to the N3 billion worth of tramadol intercepted by the then Kyari-led…
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Presidency: Keep off Southeast, you denied being Igbo man – IPOB warns Wike

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…
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Rt. Rev. Daniel Imo: True Liberation 2023.

Rt. Rev. Daniel Imo: True Liberation 2023.

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…
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HRM Eze U. K. Okam, JP (Nnaka III of Okon-Aku), laid to rest at 103.

HRM Eze U. K. Okam, JP (Nnaka III of Okon-Aku), laid to rest at 103.

The remains of the paramount ruler of Okon-Aku Autonomous Community in Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State, HRM Eze U. K. Okam, JP, Nnaka III, have been accorded his final respect in a colourful burial ceremony on 23rd April 2022 in his home town. Before his demise in December 2022, Eze Okam held different positions among royalties in Ohafia, his LGA, and Abia State. He was the former Chairman of Ndi Eze OHAFIA LGA, and also a one-time Chairman of Ndi Eze OHAFIA Clan. Nnaka the III of Okon-Aku was a former member of Abia  State Council of Ndi…
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