Palpable tension pervades the five states of the South East, following today’s sit-at-home order given by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB). The pro-Biafran group had ordered all Igbo across the country and in Imo, Abia, Enugu, Ebonyi as well as Anambra states, to stay in their homes today,…
The Ndigbo Unity Forum has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to fulfil his promises to the people of the South East. In a statement by its President, Augustine Chukwudum, which was made available to Saturday PUNCH, the group asked for the provision of loan for farmers to revive the oil palm produce the region was…
IN the run-up to the 2015 general elections, the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has insisted that power must return to the north. The NEF spokesman, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, said that the forum had told the northern governors, who are not ready to key into the 2015 “Northern Presidency” project to prepare for the worst because…
Ndigbo in Kano State will today gather in their thousands at the luxury bus park in Sabon Gari in the state capital to honour their kinsmen who died in the terror attack on the park on March 18.
Anambra State chapter of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Thursday, reiterated its demand for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to take over the conduct of local government elections in the country.President of the union, Mr Jerry Nnubia, who made the call while addressing newsmen, also called for the scrapping of State Independent…
National Coordinator, O’odua People’s Congress, Chief Gani Adams, has faulted former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Abubakar Tsav, on his statement labelling OPC as a terrorist organisation.Tsav had on Thursday condemned the Federal Government’s all-out attack on Boko Haram, wondering why the Presidency failed to ban other groups, including the OPC, for their involvement…
ONITSHA—Palpable fear has allegedly gripped the people of Anambra State especially residents of Onitsha, sequel to the reported arrival of group of soldiers in droves for security build up against the alleged Sit-At-Home order being canvassed by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB.As early as 7.30 am, Thursday, lorry…
The President of the Senate, David Mark, on Thursday said those beating the drums of war ahead of the 2015 elections, should realise that no nation survives two civil wars.Mark said this in Abuja while addressing his colleagues during a special plenary session to mark the end of the Second Legislative Session of the 7th…
The Federal Government yesterday docked four Lebanese before a Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Karu, Abuja, over terrorism-related offences.The accused persons are Mustapha Reda Darwish Fawaz, Talal Roda, Abdulla Tahini and Hussain Nurudeen Kossdi.They were arrested in connection with the latest discovery of cache of arms in the home of a Kano-based businessman.Their pleas, however,…
The Federal Government is “playing to the media and not the problem” in its approach to the al Qaeda-linked insurgent group Boko Haram,former Abia State Governor Orji Uzor Kalu has said.Kalu is calling for direct talks with Boko Haram militants, who have killed thousands of Nigerians since 2009, and he has offered to be an…