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An Enugu-based religious activist has boasted that he has amassed enormous spiritual weapons to stop President Muhammadu Buharí’s re-election in 2019. Prophet Anthony Nwoko, who spoke with newsmen in Enugu Tuesday, said that he would spiritually stop the election the same way God used him to annul the June 12, 1993 presidential election. This is coming at a time the presumed winner of the election, the late MKO Abiola is being posthumously honoured by Buhari. The Abia State-born prophet recalled that in “on January 2, 1993, I warned Babangida that if he does not allow me, Nigeria will be…

The Anambra Police Command has launched a manhunt for a middle-aged man residing in the Fegge area of the commercial city of Onitsha for absconding after allegedly raping an eight-year-old pupil of Lafiagi Primary School in the town. Residents of Calabar Street, where the man whose name was not immediately given was residing, had been complaining to the police of his frequent waylaying of school girls at odd hours and defiling them in the process. According to an eye witness, the suspect had lured the eight-year-old girl to his residence on her way to school, adding that although she continued…

As 2019 general elections approach, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has begun fresh moves to lure its former members, including former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Bukola Saraki, Senate President, and a host of others back into its fold as part of moves to make the party stronger for the big electoral contest. Also on the radar of the PDP are the duo of Engr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, former Kano State governor and Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives, who defected to the ruling party in the build up to the 2015 elections. The party, Vanguard gathered, is currently leading…

The traditional ruler of Ogbozine Akpugo, in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State, has been murdered. Police sources said Igwe Stephen Obumneme Nwatu was allegedly killed by unknown persons while returning from a court sitting at Nkanu, the local government headquarters  Monday  afternoon. The traditional ruler who was accompanied by four policemen was said to have arrived the court premises when the court had closed, was alleged to have left the premises with the policemen. Police sources said that Nwatu was trailing one of his subjects who had some issues with him, with the policemen when they were…

Two big wigs including governors of ruling All Progressives Congress, APC have thrown their weight behind the candidacy of former governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, for the national chairmanship position of the party ahead of its June 23 national convention. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a national leader of the party, and Chief Bisi Akande, a former interim National chairman of the party, endorsed Oshiomhole. Already, two other aspirants- Clement Ebri, one-time Cross River State governor and Professor Oserheimen Osunbor, the then Edo State governor, home state of Oshiomhole- are also in the race. “My…

Tony Anenih, who was the national chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) when the June 12, 1993 election was held, has brought out many claims behind the crisis.  Ibrahim Babangida, then military president, annulled the results of the presidential election presumed to have been won by M.K.O Abiola, the SDP candidate. Anenih, in his book, ‘My Life and Nigerian Politics’, launched in 2016, said Abiola told him repeatedly that Babangida was trying to embarrass him. “On the issue of June 12, Chief MKO Abiola had called me on the phone to come for an urgent meeting in Ikeja. I…

Nigerian governments have been urged to provide conducive atmosphere for journalists to ply their trade as well as to provide them with working tools to enable them to contribute meaningfully to the task of nation building. A one-time Chairman of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Akwa Ibom State Council,  Israel Umoh, who stated this while unveiling a new flat screen television acquired by the correspondents chapel, expressed sadness that most journalists in the state were not enjoying much support from the state as being done in other states of the federation. Umoh who is also the publisher of…

As June 12 is observed today as public holiday by states in the South West Region of the country to mark Democracy Day, some people in Akwa Ibom State have lent their voice for the Federal Government to set up an independent panel of enquiry to determine the circumstances surrounding the death of M. K. O. Abiola. Abiola, the presumed winner of June 12 presidential elections, died in 1998 after he was alleged to have drunk tea in a meeting called for aggrieved partied to reach truce and to accept conditions for his release. Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari in…

Ahead of the completion of the Dangote Oil Refinery, petroleum importing African nations and Bulk Oil Distributors in Ghana have expressed eagerness to patronise the Nigerian Refinery when production starts. The oil buyers said arrangements had been put in place to import petroleum products from the world’s largest single-train refinery, situated, Lekki, Lagos State, owned by the foremost industrialist. Hints of eager expectation and hopes on the Dangote Refinery were revealed at this year’s Ghanaian International Petroleum conference (Ghipcon 2018) held in Accra, Ghana. Participants at the international Conference as well as oil distributors and marketers from various countries were…

A recent study conducted on the voting pattern of Nigerian electorates in the 2015 general elections shows that the source of the change of party in power was driven by voters and issues voters cared about. Presenting the report, entitled ”Nigerian Party Competition During a Time of Transition and Terror”, at a public lecture organized by Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD, at the weekend, Prof. Carl Levan of American University, stated that issues that bothered voters and not those negatively framed against opposite parties informed the choice of voters in the election. The study, which led the researcher into…