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By Azu Ishiekwene Burkinabe leader Ibrahim Traore is acting like a rock star. It’s not entirely his fault. He’s receiving a lot of help from dozens of social media users, especially TikTokers, who are desperate to anoint him as the best thing to come out of Burkina Faso since Thomas Sankara. Traore must be enjoying it, because even though he is pretending, he knows he’s not Sankara. He is an opportunist, happy to capitalise on the current frustration in his country and the Sahel for his benefit. A recent report by The Africa Report summarised Traore’s fictional character. “In dozens…

Our Reporter, Abuja  Leading opposition politician, Mr Peter Obi, has decried the havoc that “technical glitches” are causing the country saying it must not be heard again in our public institutions. Obi via his X handle on Thursday was reacting to the Wednesday press conference given by the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, in response to the nationwide outcry over the recently released 2025 UTME results. The JAMB Registrar had declared that  technical glitches had affected the recently released JAMB results, impacting 379,997 candidates. The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka A group known as Anambra Patriots for Soludo has flagged-off the ‘Rebrand Anambra’ project to promote decency and hygiene around markets in the State. The project was flagged-off at the popular Coca-cola market in Okpoko, Ogbaru Local Government Area of the State. As part of the exercise, about 2,000  traders in the market were given aprons to aid their businesses and safeguard their monies. Convener of the Anambra Patriots for Soludo and Managing Director Anambra State Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Arch. Okey Ezeobi, said the exercise was to encourage traders to keep their trading environment clean…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu  The Enugu State Command of the Nigeria Police, in collaboration with the Neighbourhood Watch personnel, says it has successfully dismantled an armed robbery and mini-truck snatching syndicate operating in parts of the state. The spokesperson for the command, SP Daniel Ndukwe, said that the operation took place on May 11, 2025, around 3:00 p.m. According to him, during the operation the operatives arrested one suspect, rescued a kidnapped victim, and recovered a stolen mini-truck. Ndukwe in the statement said the swift response by officers attached to the Ozalla Police Division followed a report of a truck hijacking…

…157 centres in S’East, Lagos, Oyo affected Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has announced that 379,997 candidates in six states would re-sit the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, following the mass failure occasioned by a technical glitch in the last exercise. Public outcry has trailed the 2025 UTME with some individuals and associations threatening mass protest and legal action against JAMB if nothing was done to rectify the error. Sequel to the public outcry, JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, who addressed a press conference on Saturday, took full responsibility for the error, and tendered…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu  An affiliate of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Njiko Igbo Forum, NIF, has declared that Ndigbo will not give President Bola Tinubu more than 5 percent of their votes in the 2027 general election.  The group said this on Wednesday while playing down the endorsement of President Bola Tinubu by Governor Charles Soludo. Soludo, had during the President’s recent visit to Anambra State, announced that his party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, will support the president for a second term. However, in a statement made available to journalists on Wednesday, the President of Njiko Igbo Forum, Rev Dr Okechukwu…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia A support group for the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, known as PDP Frontiers for Change and Progress, has told the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mr Nyesom Wike, that “he lacks the moral rectitude to criticise PDP’s Board of Trustees, BoT, Chairman, Senator Adolphus Wabara, for making complimentary remarks about his State Governor, Dr Alex Otti of Abia State.” The group which was reacting to Wike’s recent media parley where he said that he was surprised that people were not blaming Wabara for campaigning for Gov Otti, but were blaming him for openly supporting…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The last is yet to be heard over the mass failure in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam (UTME), as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) branch, has threatened legal action against the Joint Matriculation Board (JAMB). ASUU Chairman, UNN chapter, Comrade Óyibo Eze, issued the threat at a press conference Wednesday in Nsukka. The ASUU boss alleged that the massive failure, which mostly affected candidates from the South-East, was a deliberate attempt by JAMB to undermine tertiary education admission seekers from the zone. He said: “My office has been inundated…

Our Reporter The family of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who is current on trial, has demanded live streaming of the court proceedings or the ban of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, from covering the trial. Kanu’s family in a statement issued on Wednesday by Prince Emmanuel Kanu, accused the federal news agency of bias against her son. The statement read: “It is now beyond question that NAN has abandoned any pretense of professional journalism. They have become the unofficial megaphone of the State Security Services (SSS) and the prosecuting authority,…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has threatened to shut down operations in Anambra on June 12th, 2025, over what they described as multiple taxation in the state. The association issued the threat during an emergency meeting held at Orpet Petrol Station, Agu-Awka, Awka, on Wednesday. Chairman of IPMAN, Enugu Depot Community in charge of Anambra, Ebonyi, and Enugu States, Comrade Chinedu Anyaso, who spoke to journalists shortly after their meeting said members expressed dissatisfaction with the harassment, molestation, intimidation, and extortion of IPMAN through multiple levies by officers of the Anambra State Internal Revenue…