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Our Reporter, New York The director of Genocide Prevention in Africa at the Christian Solidarity International (CSI), Switzerland, Dr. Franklyne Ogbunwezeh, has expressed sympathy for whoever is going to win the 2023 presidential election and succeed the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. In an exclusive interview with 90MinutesAfrica, the scholar decried the parlous state of the Nigerian economy and warned that it may become the iceberg that would wreck the Titanic that is Nigeria in 2023. The economy, Dr. Ogbunwezeh said, would be the major challenge facing anybody that will be sitting in Aso Rock after Buhari. “Many Nigerians cannot feed anymore. They…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Heavy exchange of fire was reported Friday evening between soldiers and some unknown gunmen at Ebem Ohafia, the host community to Goodluck Ebele Jonathan 14 Brigade Nigeria Army. The situation according to reports led to panic in the community as locals scampered for safety, with some abandoning their homes. Another version said soldiers were searching homes and shooting sporadically in the community, a development that led to panic and apprehension. Meanwhile when our Correspondent contacted the Acting Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Lieutenant Innocent Omale, he denied that soldiers were searching homes and shooting sporadically contrary to…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Friday, filed 14 grounds of appeal at the Appeal Court Abuja against the judgment of the National Industrial Court which order it to call of the seven-month strike. ASUU also applied for a stay of execution of the NIC judgment which it had earlier rejected. The appeal was filed by ASUU’s legal team led by Femi Falana, SAN. Justice Polycarp Hamman of the NIC, had in a judgement last Wednesday, ordered the university lecturers to return to the classroom, pending the determination of a suit the Federal Government filed to…
Michael Onwuka, New York Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama says Nigeria will bountifully reap from its bilateral meetings in the ongoing 77th session of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Onyeama disclosed this on Friday in an interview with newsmen in New York. According to the minister, the centerpiece of any countries participation in the general assembly is the opportunity to meet other partners from across the world. He said that President Muhammadu Buhari and other delegates from Nigeria had been in bilateral talks with their colleagues from other countries, adding that expectations of attracting rewarding investments…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Executive Director Centre for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD), David Anyaele, has called for the inclusion of the deaf and dumb in governance. He made the call in his message to mark this year’s International Day of Sign Language. The event, he said, “is an opportunity for us to ask ourselves critical questions on the extent to which we include deaf persons in governance and socio-economic activities in the society; the extent of availability of sign language interpreters in Nigeria that could support the teaming Nigerians with hearing impairment.” He gave the theme for this year’s International Day…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has called for immediate arrest and prosecution of Katsina-based activist, Mallam Mahdi Shehu, over his viral video where he castigated the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi. Mallam Shehu, in the incendiary viral video which has generated public condemnation, claimed that a vote for Obi was a vote for Biafra, and a destruction of the North. He urged the North to not to vote for Obi in the 2023 presidential election. But Ohanaeze in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Dr Alex Ogbonnia, expressed sadness over the…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Worried by the deteriorating health condition of the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, traditional rulers in Abia State, have volunteered to seek audience with President Muhammadu Buhari for a possible solution to Kanu’s plight. This was disclosed Thursday evening when the traditional rulers visited Kanu’s family at their Isiama Afaraukwu community in Umuahia North Local Government Area to solidarise with them. They vowed to engage President Buhari as soon as he returns from his trip to the United Nations General Assembly, stressing that whatever needed to be done to avoid…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Tricycle operators popularly known as Keke NAPEP and shuttle bus drivers in Anambra State have begun an indefinite strike to press home their displeasure at the new tax policy imposed on them by the State Government. The Governor had on June 30, announced the introduction of a new tax regime in the state, emphasising that the new order will cancel all revenue collections through proxy and bring sanity and accountability in the collection process. According to him, the State Government, after a careful process, asked tricycle riders to start paying N15, 000 each on a monthly basis. He…
Michael Onwuka, New York The Federal Republic of Nigeria has demanded for two permanent seats to be allocated to Africa in the United Nations Security Council. Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen on Friday in New York. Onyeama, who spoke on the sidelines of the ongoing 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), said that such move would make the UN a fair and more equitable organisation. Recall that President Joe Biden had on September 21, 2022, while addressing the UNGA during the high-level debate, called for the reformation of the UN Security Council. Onyeama commended the…
Our Reporter, Abuja The South-West Coordinator for the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign organisation, Bashorun Akin Osuntokun, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is disinterested in the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential ticket. Ikengaonline reports that the former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu who won the APC presidential primary election and his chosen running mate, the former governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kassim Shettima, hold that ticket. Osuntokun who stated this while speaking Friday on the Arise News programme, The Morning Show, said the disposition of the President towards the presidential ticket…