Biafra: Kalu playing politics with MASSOB, IPOB – Chukwu
Leader of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign States of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Solomon Chukwu has faulted former Abia State governor and candidate of the Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, in the March 5 Abia North senatorial rerun, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, over his promise to address the problems which gave rise to the agitation by the MASSOB and the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, if elected senator.
Cultivating Africa’s Economic Fortunes on the Family Farm
This week I joined more than a dozen of the world’s sharpest minds on African agriculture in an unprecedented effort to devote an entire issue of the influential magazine Foreign Affairs to consider the future of the African farmer in our digital age. I wanted to establish one simple fact: agriculture is poised to drive […]
Toyota recalls 2.9 mn vehicles worldwide over seatbelt defect
Toyota said Thursday it was recalling 2.87 million vehicles globally due to the possibility that their rear seatbelt could come apart in a crash and cause injuries.
Kachikwu cautions groups over conferment of award
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Ibe Kachikwu, on Wednesday cautioned organisations to refrain from giving award to personali
92-year-old Mugabe refuses to relinquish power, says until he dies
The 92-year-old Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, on Thursday in Harare maintained that even though is party would choose a successor, he planned to contest the next election in 2018.
My story as DG National Centre for Women Development- Onyeka Onwenu
When the call came on Sept 13, 2013, to serve the Nigerian people as DG National Center For Women Development, I took it as a call from God, and I answered in the affirmative.
Pastor stabs wife to death, leaves ten questions behind
CRACK team of detectives from the Edo state Police Command are hunting for a Pastor identified as Henry Ojochunu Ekukpe, who allegedly stabbed his 29 year old wife to death in the presence of their six year-old baby, leaving a note containing ten questions he expected his late wife to answer.
Biafra: FG can be sued for unlawful killing of IPOB members – Lawmaker
Member representing Onitsha North I state constituency in Anambra state House of Assembly, ANHA and Chiarman of the House Committee on Judiciary and Legal Matters, Hon. Chugbo Enwezor has said that the leadership of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB or the bereaved families of those killed by security agencies during protests by IPOB members for restoration of Biafra have the legal rights to sue the federal government for murder and claim damages
Kidnappers release retired Perm Secretary
A retired Permanent Secretary, Mr John Abugu, who was kidnapped while returning from a funeral ceremony of his cousin, Emeka Mamah, in Enugu Ezike, Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State weekend has been freed by his abductors.
Optical Data Storage: Scientists squeeze 360TB on to a Quartz Disc—Forever
Using nanostructured glass, scientists from UoS Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have developed the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional (5D) digital data by femtosecond laser writing.
PDP National Chair: Sheriff, an adroit, astute politician, but… – Okupe
As mixed feelings continue to trail the emergence of Senator Alimodu Sheriff, a former governor of Bornu State, as the Acting National Chairman of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe, on Thursday, described Sheriff as a longstanding political associate, a very adroit and astute politician.
Drama in Aso Villa as FG justifies Buhari’s foreign trips
It was nothing short of a melodrama at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday, between State House correspondents and the Federal Government over the many foreign trips of President Muhammadu Buhari during a press briefing.
I’ve never used public fund for my trips — Gov YARI
GOVERNOR Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State has said he has never spent public fund on any foreign trip, challenging critics to prove him wrong.
Pro-Biafra Protests, Kidnapping: Army to relocate Hqtrs to Aba
In a bid to contain the increasing protest by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign States of Biafra, MASSOB, and ensure adequate protection of lives and property in Aba, Abia State, the 14 Brigade, Ohafia, has concluded plans to relocate its command headquarters to the city.
Oduah loses bid to stop bulletproof cars probe
lagos—A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday struck out a fundamental rights enforcement suit by a former Minister of Aviation and currently a Senator, Stella Oduah, against the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and three others, challenging plans to question or prosecute her over the purchase of two armoured BMW vehicles at a cost of N255m by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, under her watch as the Aviation Minister in 2013.
Was Lai the man for the job?
IN 1996 when the first phase of the Liberian civil war was ending, one of the warlords, Brigadier General Yormie Johnson (who personally killed former dictator, the late President Samuel Doe) wrote a pamphlet where he recorded his random musings about the war and his philosophical attitudes to some issues connected thereto. He titled the book: The Gun That Liberates Should Not Rule.
