The Directorate of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has said the only credible entity which can carry out in-depth investigation into the shootings and killings of unarmed Biafrans in Aba, Abia state on February 9, 2016 is the International Criminal Court, ICC based in Hague.

When the once unthinkable quarrel between former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso and his successor, Abdullahi Ganduje broke out, it was easy for the camp of the incumbent governor to cite the alleged 2019 aspiration of Kwankwanso as the reason for the spite. Beyond the quarrel in Kano, there are many other reasons insiders in the All Progressives Congress; APC, are now pushing President Muhammadu Buhari to give indication on his 2019 agenda.

KADUNA—Shuhaila Zakzaky, 23, one of the daughters of detained leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, Sheik Ibrahim Zakzaky, yesterday, spoke at a briefing in Kaduna, on the tragedy that befell IMN in its December 12, 2015 clash with Army in Zaria.

The Managing Director of data centre company, Rack Centre, Mr.Ayotunde Coker, has advised insurance executives on the need to leverage on technology to meet the rising expectations of their clients for the anticipated growth in the Insurance Industry.

As part of the commemoration of the 2016 World Tuberculosis day, March 24, the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Program NTLCP, is collaborating with the Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria, AGPMPN, to inform and educate the public about the disease.

It is somewhat amusing that public commentators in Nigeria find a man like Donald Trump horrifying, while we in our country have consistently voted for and empowered men like Donald Trump in both business and politics. “The Donald”, with his racist, fascist rants about Muslims and foreigners,is the same bigoted, narcissist one finds in positions of authority across Nigeria.

THE national economic council retreat, yesterday, set up an implementation and implementation monitoring committees to oversee the implementation of the outcome of its decisions. According to a statement from the office of the Vice President, the committee on implementation is to be headed by the Vice President and Chairman of NEC, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.

ABEOKUTA—A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party and a former House of Representatives member, Abiodun Akinlade, yesterday said the party would reclaim Ogun State from the grip of All Progressives Congress, APC,in the 2019 elections.

The Hotel Ilha DoBoi camp of the U-23 National Team, Dream Team, in Vitoria, Brazil came alive on Monday as eight of the overseas –based players invited for tomorrow’s friendly match arrived ahead of their colleagues from Nigeria.

AHEAD of the September 10, 2016 governorship election in Edo State, the National Auditor, South South, of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Berry Negerese, has charged the leaders of the party in the state to adopt the recommendations of the Senator Ike Ekweremadu-led Committee by selling the manifesto of the party to Edo voters.

Lagos—An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, prosecution witness, Emmanuel Ugoakaeze, yesterday told a Lagos High Court sitting at Ikeja, of how a phony company, Nospecto Oil and Gas, allegedly defrauded him of N360 million by giving him a false information that his money had been invested in an industrial fuel business.

THIS certainly is not the best of time for Nigerian communities located along the borders with the Republic of Cameroun. Indeed, 13 years after the ceding of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroun by the International Court of Justice, ICJ, at The Hague, Netherlands, the Cameroun authorities have been preying on these hapless Nigerian communities in their quest for territorial expansion.

AS a development professional with some international exposure, the anomic social order in Nigeria is heart-rending. The social situations in the country occasioned by endemic corruption, bad governance and lack of responsiveness to civic duties among the general population has for long reached a critical level.

NOW, the debate over the years is that because the man is different from the woman then one has to be greater/ better or of more relevance than the other. But in the real sense, different and unequal are not interchangeable concepts or words.

After securing the green light to land in Kaduna, the Egyptian national team, the Pharaohs will arrive Kaduna today in their chartered plane, direct from Cairo.