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Our reporter, Abuja with Stephen Ukandu (News/Features Editor) Gaming giant, Bet9ja, says its website has been hacked. The Management of Bet9ja disclosed this in a statement, pointing accusing fingers at the Russian Blackcat group. Russian Blackcat had on many occasions been accused of carrying out several attacks on huge companies across the globe. Ikengaonline checks revealed that the Russia-linked cybercrime gang, Blackcat, was behind the ransomware attacks that obstructed payments at some German filling stations earlier in January. It was also gathered that hackers using a strain of ransomware known as “Black Cat” infected computers at Mabanaft GmbH and Oiltanking…
Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka Founding President, Congress for Igbo Agenda, CIA, Rev Innocent Peace-Udochukwu, has urged the people of South-East to throw their weight and support behind Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential aspirant, Mr Peter Obi, if the zone “hopes to produce the next President of Nigeria in 2023.” He said this, Thursday, while addressing journalists at the Nigerian Union of Journalist, NUJ, Anambra State Council April Congress, held at the Godwin Ezeemo International Press Centre, Awka, the state capital. The Peace-Udochukwu said “Peter Obi is a competent, credible Igbo politician with national appeal.” Continuing, he said “Igbos must rally round…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Less than 12 hours he is to appear before Abuja Federal High Court, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has filed a fresh N50 billion suit against the Federal Government, alleging that he was forcefully abducted from Kenya and renditioned to Nigeria. The IPOB Leader claimed that his fundamental human rights were grossly violated following his forceful rendition. Defendants in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/462/2022, are the Federal Government and the Attorney-General of the Federation. Kanu in the suit filed through his team of lawyers led by Chief Mike Ozekhome,…
By Farooq Kperogi Someone sent me this memo that the Apo Legislators’ Quarters Central Mosque Committee sent to the intrepid Sheikh Nuru Khalid informing him of the termination of his appointment as Imam of the Apo Juma’at Mosque for telling truth to power. The person who shared it with me was at once bemused and amused by its hilarious grammatical infelicities, but I honestly don’t care about that. As a student of Freudian psychoanalysis, I’m always interested in exploring the underlying motives that “innocent” mistakes reveal. The first sentence of the memo says the Sheikh had been disengaged “today the…
Co-convener of the #BringBackOurGirls BBOG) Movement, Aisha Yesufu has blasted the Lagos State Government for its decision to re-open the Lekki Tollgate and resume tolling when victims of the 2020 massacre at the Toll Gate were yet to get justice. Yesufu who featured on the online interview programme, 90MinutesAfrica, hosted by Rudolf Okonkwo and Chido Onumah described the decision as a sign that the Nigerian government has no regards for human lives. The activist regretted that while the families of the victims of the massacre were abandoned, Government was already planning to resume business at the same venue where lives…
By Uche Ugboajah There is a saying in Igboland that looking at the mouth of an elder, you would think he never suckled with it. Yet another says when a child washes his hands clean enough, he dines with elders. Those proverbs indeed hold true when we consider the personality of Professor Chidi Anselm Odinkalu who was born on June 12, 1968, as bombs rained on the people of the Southeast. Odinkanlu has risen from treacherous circumstances and background of his birth to become a global scholar and thought leader today. Yes, Odinkalu is a child of war born into displacement…
By Stephen Obidike I stood in awe. I was at a loss on what to say. I thought I had seen it all before but definitely no. I could not believe the expanse of the land. I could not see the end from where I stood. It has merged with the horizon. The steel structure at the middle is big enough to contain fifteen very tall skyscrapers laid side by side. The well laid out driving paths, parking and lawns made it a beauty to behold. My mind quickly went to the magnificent structures that adorn cities like Singapore, China,…
By Dave Chukwuji In my eyes, you’ll see what’s left of the wildling that once roamed these plains… You won’t see the kid that swam with mermaids dived in the Niger for pennies drank spirits offered the river goddess You won’t see the kid that searched the depth of the river for the carcass of the crocodile Uncle Joe double-barrelled on Ezute No you won’t see him You’ll see me just what is left of what was…
By Azu Ishiekwene On March 26 at the Eagle Square, Abuja, the All Progressives Congress (APC), reinvented a version of consensus politics that ancient Rome and Greece would have been proud of. After years of in-fighting and decay, and fearing that the opposition might rebound, the ruling party finally called its overdue convention. It rounded up aspirants who were jostling for its executive positions and told them, at gunpoint, that it was time to try something new: consensus. Different tendencies in APC had run amok. President Muhammadu Buhari had to put his foot down and cut a deal with governors…
Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka Transporters in Anambra State have expressed anguish over what they described as the insensitivity of government towards the plight of commercial drivers and transporters in the state. Their feelings were made known at a meeting organised by Civil Rights Concern (CRC), a non-governmental organization, held in collaboration with Anambra State Ministry of Transport, in Awka, the state capital, Wednesday. Enumerating their challenges of operating transport business in the state, the leaders of various transport unions, including Tipper, Taxis, and the Urban Bus Drivers spoke extensively against indiscriminate charges in the system and how it has affected their…