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Don’t confirm Onochie for INEC job, NBA tells Senate
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has opposed the confirmation of the Presidential aide, Mrs. Lauretta Onochie, as a commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by the Senate Committee on INEC. The Association urged the Senate committee to reject her nomination and deny her confirmation as INEC Commissioner Chairman of NBA Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL), Monday Ubani, raised the association’s objection to the confirmation of Mrs. Onochie in a letter to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on INEC, Kabiru Gaya. He argued that Mrs. Onochie is unfit for the position she was nominated for,…
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FG starts auctioning off seized assets from Looters
The Federal Government has commenced the bidding process for the sale of assets recovered from individuals through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This was disclosed in a statement issued by the National Association of Auctioneers on Thursday. The Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice and the Inter-ministerial Committee set up by the government to handle sales of the assets under the Ministry of Justice opened the bid for the sales of the assets in Abuja yesterday. Commending the manner in which the opening of the bid was conducted, the National President of…
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“They might have no one in power to speak for them, but they have GOD” – Apostle Suleiman cautions FG from going after IPOB members while leaving herdsmen
Popular clergyman, Apostle Johnson Suleiman, has warned the Federal government against it’s plans to go after IPOB members. He said they might have no one in power to speak for them but they have God. Suleiman in a post on IG this morning, questioned why the FG plans to go after IPOB members and not Killer herdsmen who have been responsible for several deaths in the country. In his words; ”You will go after IPOB?Yet you cant go after killer herdsmen?IPOB seeks to pull out of a part of NigeriaKiller herdsmen destroys the whole Nigeria.Who should be dealt with urgently?Tread…
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Twitter ban: “Malami corrupt, criminally deactivated his account” – Sowore claims
Omoyele Sowore, a former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), has berated the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami for deactivating his Twitter handle after the Federal Government’s ban. Malami is believed to have used the Virtual Private Networks (VPN) to access Twitter after the ban by the Federal Government to deactivate his account. Sowore described Malami as a corrupt and incompetent lawyer for criminally deactivating his Twitter account. Malami on Saturday after the announcement of the ban on the Microblogging site had ordered the immediate prosecution of offenders of the Federal Government ban on Twitter operations…
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Biafra: Afenifere slams Buhari for saying Igbo is ‘a dot in a circle’
Afenifere, the apex socio-cultural organisation in the South West, has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari for his recent comment against the Igbo nation. Buhari had during an interview with Arise TV on Thursday said that ‘”IPOB is just like a dot in a circle. Even if they want to exit, they will have no access to anywhere. Reacting, Afenifere noted that ”the President takes delight in ridiculing the Ndigbo which he used IPOB to represent.” A statement signed by its Secretary General, Chief Sola Ebiseni in Akure, Afenifere noted that to Buhari, “the Igbo and their territory is just a dot…
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Igangan: Buhari would have threatened Igbos if cows were killed – Eedris Abdulkareem
Veteran Nigerian rapper, Eedris Abdulkareem, has reacted to the recent massacre in Igangan, a town in the Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State. Eedris slammed President Buhari for not speaking up against the attack. In a series of posts on Instagram, Eedris wondered how the President would have reacted, if it were cows that were killed in the South East. He noted that the North seem to be more bothered about the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in the South East than the destruction of lives and properties being carried out by Boko Haram terrorists…
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‘Your threats make us stronger’, IPOB replies Buhari
Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said that Buhari’s threat cannot stop the group from actualizing Biafra. Buhari in an interview on Arise TV had said his government would organize the military and police to treat IPOB in the language they understand. Reacting to this, Kanu, who spoke via his spokesman, Emma Powerful, said Buhari’s threat would make IPOB and the Eastern Security Network (ESN) stronger. He said: “They have been doing that before now, let me tell you threatening cannot change IPOB, he can stay in the Aso Rock threatening Nigerians but not…
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IPOB is just like a dot in a circle, will have no access to anywhere if they secede – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has described the Indigenous people of Biafra clamoring for secession as like a dot in a circle, it has no where to go. The President said this during an interview on Arise TV on Thursday. He stated that IPOB will not have “access to anywhere” even if they eventually secede from the country. “That IPOB is just like a dot in a circle. Even if they want to exit, they will have no access to anywhere, he said “And the way they are spread all over the country, having businesses and properties, I don’t think IPOB knows…
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Twitter, Facebook, others must get licence from NBC – FG
The federal government has directed all broadcast service providers and social media platforms operating within the Nigerian space to apply and obtain licence for their services from the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission. In a statement by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and others must now be registered in Nigeria. He revealed this to State House reporters after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday. He said Twitter had also reached out to the government seeking high-level discussions to resolve the issue. Nigeria had banned Twitter in…
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Behave yourselves, ensure security of Nigeria if you want jobs — Buhari warns Nigerian youths
President Muhammadu Buhari has warned Nigerian youths to behave themselves and ensure the nation’s security if they want jobs in the country. President Buhari, in an interview with Arise TV on Thursday morning, expressed worry over the spate of violence in the country. The President blamed the Endsars protesters for the lack of investments and jobs in the country. Buhari noted that no investor can invest in an unsecured environment, a situation he quite agreed is currently bedeviling the Nation at the moment. ”I told them to tell the youths if they want jobs they should behave themselves, make Nigeria…
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Nigeria to sell unused electricity to Four Countries – TCN
Nigeria is in talks with four West African countries to sell unused Electricity to them through a planned $570 million Northcore Power Transmission Line. This was disclosed in a statement by the acting Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and Chairman, Executive Board of the West African Power Pool (WAPP), Engr. Sule Ahmed Abdulaziz, on Wednesday during the WAPP meeting on the Northcore project in Abuja. Reports have it that about 2,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity are not utilised daily across the Generation Companies (GenCos) in Nigeria and could be exported. “The power we will be selling…
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IPOB: We promise you hell, ESN not cultists – Nnamdi Kanu dares Abba Kyari
Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has vowed that the group would resist men of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, in the Southeast. Kanu made the remark while accusing the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team led by DCP Abba Kyari of killing cultists and tagging them Eastern Security Network, ESN, operatives. The IPOB leader maintained that ESN operatives were not cultists and would never be killed. Kanu, who spoke through the Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Emma Powerful, said the group would not tolerate the victimization of Igbo youths by security agents. In a statement…
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