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The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has declared a one-month sit-at-home if the federal government fails to produce its leader Nnamdi Kanu in court. The group also urged Oduduwa Republic agitators, their Middle belt counterpart and Christians in the North to join its members in shutting dowIPOBn Nigeria for one month if the Federal Government fails to bring Kanu to court on October 21. The group also told Igbos living in other regions to shut down their businesses for one month. Kanu is held by the Department of State Services, DSS, following his rearrest in Kenya. During his last arraignment…

The Federal Government in cahoots with herdsmen intends to sue southern governors over the anti-open grazing bill they recently signed into law. Special Assistant (Media) to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Dr Umar Gwandu in an interview with Punch, said Nigerians whose rights had been violated could go to court to seek protection. Most southern states, including Lagos, Ondo, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, Abia, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Enugu, and just recently, Delta and Ogun states, signed the anti-open grazing bill into law. It was also gathered that police commands differed on the enforcement of the law. Ebonyi and Osun…

After two months, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has called off its  ongoing strike, and directed members to resume duty Wednesday. Recall that in August, the doctor’s union embarked on strike following a disagreement with the federal government over the non-availability of medical equipment at public tertiary hospitals. In a communique signed by the Nigerian Medical Association, Secretary-General Ekpe Philips Uche, after the meeting held among delegates of NMA and NARD on Sunday in Abuja, the NMA advised NARD to stop the ongoing industrial action. At the meeting, NMA mandated the National Officers Committee, NOC, to ensure the…

After 72 days in the house, Whitemoney has won the Big Brother Naija season 6 ‘Shine Ya Eyes’ reality show, with the grand prize of N90 million. Known as Hazel Oyeye Onou, Whitemoney beat 20 housemates who participated in the television reality show to emerge the overall winner. Liquoros emerged the second winner in the show. Whitemoney is the 6th winner for the show and joins past winners: Katung Aduwakwey who won first edition in 2006, Efe Ejeba (2017), Miracle Ikechukwu (2018), Mercy Eke (2019), and Laycon 2020. The 29-year-old Whitemoney comes from Enugu State and he is a businessman…

President of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SOKAPU, Comrade Jonathan Asake, has claimed that “journalists who have attempted to report atrocities that have been going on in Kaduna have been arrested and thrown into detention.” Speaking at the 2021 human rights lecture organised by the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, with the theme: “Nigerian School Children; Insecurity and Human Rights,” held in Abuja, Asake alleged that same people are being paraded on the media over a particular crime over and over again. The SOKAPU President also who gave a timeline of some alleged attacks in the state claimed that insecurity…

Paris Saint-Germain superstar, Lionel Messi, on Sunday afternoon, failed to score in his side’s Ligue 1 defeat against Rennes. Messi, who scored in PSG’s Champions League 2-0 win against Manchester City a few days ago, hit the crossbar with his free-kick during the encounter. Rennes defeated PSG 2-0 in a Ligue 1 tie at Stade de la Route de Lorient. Gaetan Laborde and Flavien Tait scored both goals for the host against Mauricio Pochettino’s side. Despite the defeat to Rennes, PSG still top the Ligue 1 table. PSG are on top of the Ligue 1 table with 24 points from…

A 36-year-old staffer of the Nigeria Television Authority, (NTA) who was murdered in Kogi state, has been laid to rest in his hometown.  Onwukwe Chukwu Obiahu, was stoned to death by unknown assailants in Okene shortly after he closed from work on Monday, September 6, 2021.  The engineer was buried in his hometown, Ezi Agbii, Ukpa Village in Afikpo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State on Saturday, October 2.  A friend of the deceased, Irem Raphael shared photos from the funeral.  “The reality of life. The two most important days in ur life, the day u are born and the day u find…

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, October 2, announced that he is retiring from politics. Prior to the announcement, Duterte had been expected to run for vice president. He is not eligible to run again for president as the constitution sets a single-six-year term limit for the president. Making the announcement, the President who was accompanied by his long-time loyalist Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, from their ruling PDP-Laban party registered to run for vice president, saying “Today, I announce my retirement from politics.” Political observers had long suspected Duterte could spring a surprise, such as a presidential run by his daughter, Sara…

The Afenifere leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, said Nigeria’s political independence and unity were negotiated in the 1950s. Adebanjo in an interview with Punch on Friday was reacting to a nationwide broadcast by President Muhammadu Buhari to mark the country’s 61st Independence Day celebration. During the broadcast, Buhari, in his usual speech, declared that Nigeria’s unity is not negotiable. The 93-year-old Afenifere leader who described Buhari as ignorant about Nigeria’s unity and was talking nonsense, said he was a small boy in the primary school when the unity was negotiated. According to him,  in 1953 when the North opposed the call…

The passage and signing of bill banning open grazing of cattle into law in Akwa Ibom State is a signpost effort to curtail the rampaging but confrontational activities of herdsmen using it as a gambit to perpetrate havocs on the life and properties of innocent people, especially farmers. That some herdsmen in connivance with so-called bandits and other non-state actors have resorted to using an age-long business to commit crimes against humanity is unfortunate. That some privileged people in high places or perhaps in government using public funds and instruments have decided to support archaic business pattern to further evil…