ABUJA – The sponsor of the Hate Speech Bill at the Senate, Senator Sabi Abdullahi, has bowed to public criticism of the bill and expressed his readiness to expunge the clause that provided for death by hanging as the ultimate penalty for violators of the bill. The 26-page bill which scaled first reading at…
The United Nations and the United Kingdom have opposed the death penalty clause in the proposed National Commission for the Prohibition of Hate Speech Bill introduced by Senate Deputy Chief Whip, Sabi Abdullahi. The UN described the death penalty as barbaric, noting that its inclusion in the bill was unacceptable. According to the bill, any…
People in southern Ethiopia’s Sidama region are voting in a referendum on whether to create a new regional state along ethnic lines. Polls opened at 6am (03:00 GMT) on Wednesday 20 November 2019 and closed at 6pm 20 November 2019 (15:00 GMT). Preliminary results are expected on Thursday. The Sidama drive for statehood, which goes…
Election officials in Ethiopia’s ethnic Sidama region counted votes on Thursday from a referendum that many expect will approve the creation of a new federal state. The vote, completed on Wednesday, is seen as a critical test in a nation already struggling with community tensions. Analysts say it could inspire other groups to push for…
Biafrans are mystifying people who even live to tell the best tale under ‘persecution’ or hash conditions. This is a fact, not paranoia. Biafrans are majorly aversed, adaptable, versatile and enterprising people, multi-talented, business-orientated and well-travelled. In fact, for an average of every ten Nigerians seen outside the shores of Nigeria, six or seven are…
General Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, of blessed memory, selflessly championed the defense of the Biafran nation against the Nigerian military and her foreign allies between 1967 and 1970. Biafrans it should be clearly stated, were marked for annihilation by the Hausa-Fulanis and their Yoruba counterparts on a revenge mission schemed against Major Kaduna Nzeogwu led…
Amnesty International has accused President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration of employing security agents and the judiciary to persecute Nigerians. The global human rights organization said this while condemning the detention of Omoyele Sowore at Department of State Services, DSS. The secret police who have refused to release Omoyele Sowore, convener of the Revolution Now Movement, had…
ABUJA – The United Nations and the European Union Special Representatives to West Africa and the Lake Chad Basin Commission on Wednesday met with the Chief of the Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, in Abuja, saying that the Boko Haram insurgents must be checkmated and their spread stopped. The UN Special Representative for…
In developed countries; the police is a civil service work, and an agency of the executive arm of government that maintains and enforces law and order in the society. But in Nigeria, it is a militarilized force, that carries gun, the same way the military go about with it, as if we are at war…
ASSIGNMENT TO EVERY FREEDOM FIGHTER; SPREAD THE ATROCITIES HAPPENING IN NIGERIA ROUND THE WORLD Our people yearn for information. They want us to inform them of what we are doing and tonight I’m doing it. It is not every time that you hear very volatile press statement from us, of course not. Sometimes it is…