…says FG wrongly advised …Suspension unacceptable, undemocratic, unconstitutional By Bashir Bello As reaction continues to greet the Federal Government’s decision to suspend operation of twitter in the country, the Executive Director of the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), Yushau Ya’u has called on the Federal Government to immediately withdraw the suspension on the microblogging […]

…Sector Co-ordinator cries out By Tunde Oso The Delta State Coordinator of the Surveillance and Enforcement Team of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, Eshanekpe Israel, a.k.a Akpodoro has cried out over incessant attacks on the personnel if the out who were mandate by President Muhammadu Buhari through the National President of IPMAN, […]

By Chinonso Alozie Senator Samuel Anyanwu, who represented Imo East Senatorial district, yesterday described Igbo leaders who were silent in the face of the killings in Igboland as those conspiring with external forces to benefit from the insecurity in Southeast states. Senator Anyanwu spoke in Owerri, while expressing worry over how some Igbo leaders kept […]

By Chinonso Alozie Senator Samuel Anyanwu, who represented Imo East Senatorial district, Saturday said that Igbo leaders who have been silent in the face of the killings in Igboland are those conspiring with external forces to benefit from the insecurity in Southeast states. Senator Anyanwu spoke in Owerri, while expressing worry over how some Igbo […]

By Tony Nwankwo A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and an Anambra State Governorship aspirant  Amb Ike Oligbo has described the controversial speech and tweets by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday this week as most unfortunate and grossly irresponsible. During an interview in Awka Ambassador Oligbo emphasized his dismay and disappointment on the tone […]

By Luminous Jannamike – Abuja The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, on Saturday, urged Nigerian men and women of faith to be willing to join politics with a view to sanitising the system. According to a statement by its General Secretary, Joseph Daramola, the apex Christian body stated that politics is not dirty, but many […]

By Tordue Salem, Abuja The Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives has condemned the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria by the Federal Government,  describing it as a clear violation of freedom of speech and other democratic rights and tenets as provided by the 1999 constitution. The lawmakers, in a statement by the Minority Leader […]

…asks Imo governor to intervene By Chinonso Alozie A wife to Mr. Oguchi Unachukwu, a Germany based-business man, Mrs. Ijeoma Unachukwu, yesterday said that her children watched and cried as the Airforce officer, shot their father in his car on his forehead at the Imo Airport, Air Force checkpoint and he bleeded till he died. […]

Operatives of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have arrested two men, Nicholas Kelechi and Benjamin Moore, allegedly in possession of fake currencies in Yagba Market in Kwara. This is contained in a statement by the Public Relations Officer, NSCDC, Kwara Command, Babawale Zaid, on Saturday in Ilorin. The statement said that Moore, the […]

Northern women have staged a protest in Abuja against a second civil war, asking President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the National Assembly to put machinery in motion for a referendum on the Biafra question, with a view to allowing the Southeast to secede peacefully from Nigeria. The protesters under the aegis of Amalgamation […]