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Michael Onwuka, Enugu The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), says it is neither a socio-cultural nor tribal organisation. The South-East Zonal Chairman of MACBAN, Alhaji Gidado Siddiki, disclosed this while briefing newsmen Saturday in Enugu. Siddiki said that MACBAN was fundamentally a trade group made up of cattle herders across the country. He said that the clarification had become necessary following misconceptions in parts of the country that the group was in pursuit of ethno-centric political interests. “This misconception is probably the cause of the unhealthy suspicion on MACBAN and our herders in the field. “We make…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The Imo State Police Command on Saturday said it had raided a location in the Atta Community, Njaba Local Government Area, used as hideouts of the hoodlums who attacked the Mbieri Police Station in Mbaitoli LGA of the state, last Friday. The State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Michael Abattam, disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri. Police gave the names of the suspected hoodlums who allegedly carried out the attacks, stating that two of them were among the inmates that escaped from the April 2021 Owerri jail break. The suspects according to police, were one Solomon Umunakwu…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia. Leading presidential aspirant of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the South-East, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, has revealed what he called four strong demons holding Nigeria hostage. According to the former President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, the monsters include poverty, corruption, insecurity and injustice. He said that until these demons are ‘cast away’ by responsible and responsive Government, the country’s dream of peace and economic emancipation would remain elusive. Ohuabunwa who spoke with newsmen Friday evening when he visited the PDP secretariat Umuahia, where he came to present his presidential nomination and expression of interest…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Gunmen have abducted unspecified number of students of Abia State University Uturu. The incident according to reports occurred on Thursday night while the students were traveling back to the university. Confirming the incident, Management of the university said the victims were kidnapped alongside other passengers as the bus conveying them was ambushed by gunmen. According to a press release by the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the university, the incident took place around 8:00 pm on Thursday, March 31. The release advised students to avoid night travels, while assuring that efforts were being intensified by security agents…
By Ben Okri All around you missiles Are falling. Churches You once knew won’t Be there any more. The streets you walked Will be changed by Blood and shelling And bombs. It seems The world’s gone mad. As the Earth shakes, Not because of the rage Of the gods, but that One man wants to Win back a lost empire, You will think that Your world is being Shattered for ever. It is. But out of the destruction, Out of all this thunder, Something new will Come. Whatever happens Your land will know The courage of its soul, Its people;…
By Osmund Agbo When in 2014, Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian businessman got the blessing of his friend, President Vladimir Putin, to form a network of military mercenaries to help Russia effect the annexation of Crimea, he was intentional about naming the private army and called it the Wagner Group. Wagner is the nom de guerre of the group leader, Dmitry Utkin, but most importantly, is the name of Hitler’s favorite composer during the Third Reich. Wilhelm Richard Wagner, prior to finding commercial success in music, was a little known composer who lived a troubled life, neck deep in debt and…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the main opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abia State, have been described as different faces of the same coin. Abia State Chairman of the National Rescue Movement, NRM, Mr. Joseph Ulu, who made the description accused both parties of strangulating Abia State and milking its economy dry. He said that members of both parties who had at different times occupied positions of authority in the state, acted like locusts and caterpillars, and ate up the state’s economy. The NRM Chairman, vowed that both parties would be chased out of…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia A Southwark Crown Court in London, has sentenced the convener of the Young Yorubas for Freedom, YYF, Adeyinka Grandson, to four and half years in prison for promoting racial hatred. The Yoruba separatist fundamentalist, was in August 2019, arrested in London over his social media posts against some ethnic groups in Nigeria. He had, in the offensive posts, made uncomplimentary remarks against Ndigbo as well as the Hausa-Fulani nations. Grandson had also in a viral video in October, 2020, issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the Igbo to leave Yorubaland, or blame themselves for whatever happened to them…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Deputy Governor of Abia State, Sir Ude Oko Chukwu, has said he had garnered enough experience to fix the state having been around the corridors of power for some time. He stated this on Friday at Abia Hotels Umuahia where he formally declared interest in the 2023 governorship race. Oko Chukwu was the former Speaker, Abia House of Assembly, until 2015 when he was elected the Deputy Governor to Okezie Ikpeazu. The Nkporo-born chartered accountant said he had full understanding of the challenges of the state, and was better prepared to tackle them. Oko Chukwu promised…
By Crispin O. Dah! If you’ve never impregnated a weird human being that is disguising as a regular human being you don’t know how lucky you are. The kain wahala you will see ehn! It will be following you like MTN everywhere you go. I was just on my own o. Deputy Editor that year just minding my life. That’s how some students from a university in Nasarawa came to ask me to come and give them career talk at one event like that. Of course they were not paying but I sha agreed to go. Give back to society…