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Buhari has not appointed new Service Chiefs – Femi Falana
Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Human Rights Activist, Femi Falana has faulted the appointments of the Service Chiefs by the president. Falana termed the act as “inchoate”. Falana in a statement he shared, argued that the service chiefs have only been nominated and not appointed because Buhari is yet to forward their names to the national assembly. According to him, the 2013 judgment which described the appointments of Service Chiefs without the concurrence of the National Assembly stated that it was illegal and unconstitutional. The statement read; “Yesterday, President Buhari was reported to have appointed new service chiefs for the…
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Buhari’s regime out of Steam to tackle corruption – Soyinka
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has expressed that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has run out of steam in the fight against corruption and has resulted in the manipulation of the judiciary by powerful people in the country. He said this while speaking in an interview on AIT’s Kakaaki on Wednesday. Soyinka expressed that the system had become corrupted so badly that court cases were being stretched out through technicalities. He said: “There are so many people who should be in prison if this government had not run out of steam, and so the system is being manipulated. “There are…
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Buhari signs regulations to make use of Face Masks Mandatory
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Coronavirus Disease Health Protection 2021 into law. This act makes the use of face masks in public places mandatory among other measures to curtail further spread of COVID-19. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, made this known to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday. He revealed that the President signed the document on Tuesday in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 4 of the Quarantine Act, Cap. Q2 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2010. According to the SGF, part 1 of the act deals with…
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Soldiers rejoice over Buratai’s removal as Chief of Army Staff (video)
Publisher, Omoyele Sowore, has shared a video of soldiers celebrating after the Lt. General Tukur Buratai was removed as Chief of Army Staff. He wrote; ”See soldiers rejoicing over the removal of Tukur Buratai as the Chief of Army staff of @HQNigerianArmy imagine what’s #Nigerians will do when his incompetent boss @MBuhari is also retired permanently from #Nigeria’s political space. imagine it!”
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“I don’t wish my enemy such” – Edo Immigration spokesperson regains freedom, narrates how kidnappers sold her to another gang
The spokesperson of the Edo State Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Mrs Bridget Esene, who was abducted by unknown gunmen has been released. According to her, she was kidnapped by five armed men who trailed her to her church at Ikhueniro, a community in Benin City on Sunday January 24 and was released at about 4p.m. on Tuesday, January 26. “I was forced into the car and driven out of the church premises by the five gunmen who later sold me to another set of kidnappers who are suspected herdsmen. The armed men later took me into the forest…
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”Denying Igbo Presidency in 2023 is a tacit admittance that the civil war has not ended” – Emeka Egwuonwu
Senior Special Adviser to the Anambra State Governor on Community Liaison, Emeka Egwuonwu has said that if Igbos are denied the presidency in 2023 it will be an admittance that the ”civil war has not ended.” He said it would be total injustice for anybody to deny the zone the number one seat in the country in 2023. Speaking with Sunnewsonline, Egwuonwu made it known that Igbo Presidency has been long overdue as it is the only way to integrate the Igbo people into the country’s governance mainstream. “Without mincing words, Nigeria has not been in any way fair to…
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Buratai will be brought to Justice at ICC – Fani-Kayode
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has expressed that the former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen Tukur Buratai would be brought to justice at the International Criminal Court (ICC). In a tweet via his twitter handle, the former Minister lent his voice to the calls for the prosecution of the former COAS over extrajudicial killings and human rights abuses during his tenure since his resignation on Tuesday. He wrote: “Burutai has gone but one day he will be brought to justice at the Int. Criminal Court for his atrocities which include Operation Python Dance, the religious cleansing of Shia…
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“Nnamdi Kanu’s days are numbered” – Arewa youths ask Buhari to arrest IPOB leader
The Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, AYCF, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to arrest the leader of the indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB Nnamdi Kanu as they declared that his days are numbered. According to the AYCF National President, Yerima Shettima, the Nigerian government should devise a means to arrest and repatriate Kanu to face his trial as he alleged that Kanu was taking advantage of the unemployment rate in Nigeria to recruit people and instigate them against other Nigerians. “In a normal society that rabble rouser who claims to be a leader from nowhere should not be taken seriously.…
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New Service Chiefs: “Don’t rejoice yet” – Dino Melaye tells Nigerians
Former senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye has urged Nigerians not to rejoice yet over the appointment of new service chiefs. President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, appointed new service chiefs after several calls for sack of previous ones owing to increasing insecurity in the country. Though the presidency noted that the replacement of the Service Chiefs wasn’t as a result of the spate of insecurity in the country but the president just felt it was the best time to remove the security heads and appoint new ones. Reacting to this Melaye in a tweet asked Nigerians to rather be very…
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‘Buhari’s new Service Chiefs will soon prove unable to stop Boko Haram, herdsmen, ISWAP’ – Nnamdi Kanu
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu has reacted to the change of Service Chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari. Kanu in a tweet said the new Service Chiefs will soon prove their inability to stop Boko Haram, killer herdsmen and ISWAP terrorists while tolerating the extra-judicial killings of unarmed activists in the Southeast. He wrote; “It will surely get worse because your new Service Chiefs will soon prove unwilling and unable to stop BokoHaram, herdsmen and ISWAP while at the same time tolerating the extrajudicial killing of UNARMED activists in the South, especially in Southeast, as in…
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Lady cries for help as all her savings of N3.5million allegedly disappears from her Access Bank Account
An Access Bank customer, Nkiru Puthen Rosie has cried out for help after all her savings of N3.5million disappeared from her account. Rather than investigate, the Bank appears to be eager to move on from the occurrence, as all they did was tell her that they empathize with her. Is this the fate that awaits Nigerians abroad who bank in Nigeria? Her story below: I logged in to my email attached to my Access bank account and discovered that people had gradually transferred all my money (about 3.5 million naira) out of my account. Access bank have tried to disassociate…
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Sunday Igboho: Yoruba People always destroy their Warriors – Gani Adams
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land, Chief Gani Adams has expressed that Yoruba people always destroy their warriors Speaking as a guest on Tuesday’s edition of The Morning Show on Arise TV, He warned Yoruba activist Sunday Igboho against being used and dumped by politicians. The Aare Onakakanfo boasted that he has been in the business of fighting for the liberation of the Yoruba race since he was 23 years old. He also expressed that he has observed the way people can easily turn against heroes when they feel they are no longer relevant despite such persons having genuine concerns…
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