MASSOB dares police in Aba over alleged ban on use of Biafran camouflage
Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has dared the police in Aba, Abia State,
MD Abubakar’s war against Igbo police officers dangerous •Jonathan, others asked to intervene
The systematic war against Igbos in the Nigerian Police under the watch of Mohammed D. Abubakar has met with strong condemnation from frontline rights group International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety). In the concluding (Part Three) of its petition, the first two parts of which were published by News Express…
National Conference Unnecessary – Kukah
Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah has said that the proposed National Conference scheduled to begin next month will not achieve any tangible thing for the people of Nigeria. Speaking to Hausa Service of the BBC, monitored in Abuja, the cleric said that the proposed conference would not be an avenue to tackle …
SSS Arrests and quizzes Dokubo-Asari over the threat of bloodshed in 2015.
The president of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, is currently being interrogated at the headquarters of the State Security Service in Abuja. Dokubo was invited by the SSS, following his alleged inflammatory statements in connection to the 2015 election, in which he stressed in unequivocal terms that there will be bloodshed, if…
2015: The Muslims Rights Concern (MURIC) Cautions Dokubo Over Unguarded Uttrances
The Muslims Rights Concern (MURIC) on Wednesday advised the leader of the out-lawed Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Asari Dokubo, to stop heating up the polity by making unguarded statements. Dokubo had on Tuesday reiterated that his kinsmen in the oil-rich Niger Delta would foment trouble if President Goodluck Jonathan failed to secure second term…
‘We must win Boko Haram war’ – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said the Defence and Service Chiefs have a tough time ahead unless the Boko Haram war is won.Decorating them with their new ranks at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Jonathan said he did not know whether to congratulate them or not because of the circumstances of the moment.The military chiefs, he…
CBN Gov Sanusi Lamido Sanusi attacks NNPC You haven’t accounted for $20bn
Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday, told the Senate Committee on Finance that of the $67 billion crude oil sales that was supposed to be remitted to the Federation Account, only $47 billion had been reconciled between the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and CBN. But the Committee’s Chairman, Ahmed Makarfi, cautioned the CBN…
Court rejects Okah’s new psychiatric test result.Double standard why Boko Haram terrorists are been set free and paid compensation
For the second time in less than one month, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday rejected a fresh psychiatric test result produced by the Abuja National Hospital on Mr. Charles Okah. Okah is facing terrorism charges before the court, along with others for purportedly masterminding the October 1, 2010 twin-bomb blasts in Abuja,…
World Ndigbo Youth summit for Enugu
Pan-Igbo youth organisations will, on February 28, hold the World Ndigbo Youth Summit in Enugu. Over 12 Igbo youth groups, from parts of the world and states are expected to participate. Some of them are the Igbo Freedom Movement, World Ndigbo Youth Movement, Igbo Security Council, Igbo Liberation Youths, Igboezue Youth Movement, Biafra Action Congress,…
APC- If Asari-Dokubo is not above the law, SSS must arrest him now
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as reckless, irresponsible and totally condemnable the alleged threat by Mujahedeen Asari-Dokubo to levy war against Nigeria even if President Goodluck Jonathan is defeated even in a free and fair election in 2015. It said the SSS must act immediately or be damned. “There is no better test…