BZF gives FG 7-day ultimatum to release all detained pro-Biafra agitators
ENUGU—LEADER of the Biafra Zionists Federation, BZF, Barr. Benjamin Onwuka has issued a one-week ultimatum to the Federal Government to release all pro-Biafra detainees at various prison formations across the country.
Samuel Eto’o signs for Qatar league side
Veteran Cameroon star Samuel Eto’o has signed for Qatar league side, Qatar Sports Club, it was announced Monday, just days after he ended a brief stay at Turkish side Konyaspor.
57 prison inmates to write WASSCE, 2 pursue PhD
The Lagos Prisons Command says education behind bars is getting more interesting with two of its inmates already pursuing their PhD at the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons.
Famous five: Sporting superstars who can light up the Asian Games
The Asian Games, the world’s second largest multi-sports event, begin this week. Here are five global stars who can shine at the continental showpiece in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia.
Another man shot dead in Ado-Ekiti
Ado-Ekiti—Barely four days after the killing of Bunmi Ojo, Personal Assistant to ex-governor Segun Oni by unknown assailants, another man was shot dead in broad daylight in Ado-Ekiti, yesterday.
Impeachment : How Imo assembly violated court order — Madumere’s counsel
AN Imo State High Court presided over by Justice Benjamin C. Iheka was yesterday, told how the State House of Assembly defied an Order of Court and pronounced the impeachment of the Deputy Governor, Prince Eze Madumere.
Bayelsa Anglican cleric slumps, dies while officiating wedding
YENAGOA—THERE was pandemonium at Our Saviour Anglican Church, Romania, Yenagoa, the Bayelsa capital, weekend, when a cleric slumped and died on the pulpit, while conducting a wedding.
6 missing, 21 houses razed over felled guava tree in Delta community
OLEH—Not less than 21 houses have been set ablaze, with six persons missing at Inyi community, Ndokwa East Local Government Area, Delta State, following an intra-communal crisis that broke out when an indigene fell a guava tree in a disputed area.
MASSOB condemns proposed traditional title for Ganduje
ABAKALIKI—MOVEMENT for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday condemned the proposed traditional chieftaincy title to be given to Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State by HRH, Eze Eberechi Dick in Aba, Abia State.
We’ll declare Saraki, Kwankwaso, Gemade, Melaye, Misau, others’ seats vacant — Akpabio
ABUJA— THE immediate past Senate Minority Leader and former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio, now of All Progressives Congress, APC, Akwa Ibom North West, yesterday vowed that the Senate would declare seats of Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, former Peoples Democratic PDP, national Chairman, Barnabas Gemade, Senators Rabiu Kwankwaso; Dino Melaye; Usman Nafada; Suleiman Hunkuyi and others who dumped APC for PDP vacant.
From the Hills to Marina Lagos
ON Monday July 30, I witnessed the enthronement of the Right Reverend Dr. Humphrey Bamisebi Olumokaye as the 8th Bishop of the Diocese of Lagos, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion). It was a colourful ceremony held at the Cathedral Church of Christ, Marina, Lagos and attended by sixty-two Bishops from all parts of the country and many clergy men from different denominations.
