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Our Reporter, Abuja Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has dissociated himself from a viral social media video showing members of the Pyrates Confraternity mocking the presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in a song while in a procession. In a statement on Monday, Mr Soyinka said he was “frankly appalled” at the lyrics of the song describing it as “distasteful.” In the said video, the Pyrates’ members, who are marking the 70th anniversary of the group this year, in their traditional  red and white regalia, can be heard singing a song about a presidential candidate whose “hands and feet are shaking, yet he is…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Archbishop Metropolitan, and Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), His Grace, the Most Revd. Dr. Henry Ndukuba, has said the infant and maternal healthcare are still a big burden on Nigeria. Primate Ndukuba stated this during the weekend at the official dedication of College of Nursing Sciences, Awka, built by the Diocese of Awka, Anglican communion, Anambra State. Delivering his homily at the occasion, the Primate said the country is still backward in its healthcare deliveries despite the recent innovations and developments across countries of the world. He further decried that infant and maternal mortality rate…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Political office seekers in Abia State hoping to use the youths to rig themselves into office in 2023 may be in for a shocker as  the youths have declared that the era of mortgaging their future for a piece of bread is over. The youths who vowed to take their destiny in their hands in 2023, gave red car to bad leaders and greedy politicians holding the state to ransom. They have sworn never again to allow few individuals who allocate to themselves the powers of God to decide the future of youths in the state. Leaders of different youth…

By Owei Lakemfa Professor Akinlawon ‘Akin’  Ladipo Mabogunje was an African institution established for all-round development. He is also widely accepted as the Father of African Geography. By 2000, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, was fed up with the National Housing Fund, NHF, which in the eleven years of its establishment had failed to deliver on mass housing for workers. Under the scheme, all those earning the National Minimum Wage and above, contributed 2.5 per cent of their monthly income. Although workers had contributed about N6 billion to the fund, the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, FMBN, which administered the fund…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The former gubernatorial aspirant of Peoples Democratic Party PDP,  Engr Sunday Opoke, has emerged the Governorship Candidate of Young Peoples Party YPP for 2023 general election. The election was conducted for the purpose of substitution in accordance with the new electoral act. The YPP National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Ogbeola Olawale  Martins Stated this while announcing Mr Opoke the winner of the substitution election at the party Secretariat in Abakaliki the state capital. Ogbeola said the election was hitch free “in accordance with the guidelines of the new Electoral Law, it stipulates that every political party must organise Primary Elections…

Our Reporter, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the alleged killing of six Nigerien citizens and some security operatives in their duty posts in the South-East, describing it as “sad and unwelcome.” The President expressed his displeasure over the incidents in a series of tweets made by his Senior Special Assistant, Garba Shehu, via his verified Twitter handle  on Sunday. While sending his condolences to the families of the deceased security officers and the Government of Niger, President Buhari promised a  speedy investigation into the matter. He also restated his administration’s unwavering commitment to peace and stability in the South-East region and…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “Democracy is a journey and the quality of the ride depends on what we collectively put into it. If we shut our ears and our eyes, the ship of state could derail….” – Dennis Odife, Without Money and Without Price: A Brief Autobiography, p.196 (2016) In court around 1 July, 2022, the Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State in South-South Nigeria, Ekaette Obot, repeatedly threatened to jail my good friend, Inibehe Effiong, for his diligence in representing an unknown client against two powerful men – the governor who appointed her into office and a Senator without whose influence she…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Senator Mao Ohuabunwa has lampooned the All Progressives Congress, APC-controlled Federal Government over  the menacing activities of bandits in Abia North. Ohuabunwa who was angry over the sad development, tasked Government to rise to its responsibility of protecting lives and property to avoid the people resorting to self defense. The former lawmaker was reacting to the recent blocking of Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway between Leru and Okigwe; and repeated attacks on Thursday around the same axis, as well as another isolated attack at Lomara in Umunneochi, accused Government of docility. “The rate of terrorist attacks on innocent people of…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has denied any responsibility for the gruesome murder of eight Northerners living in Orogwe, a suburb community in Owerri, Imo State. In a statement on Saturday, the group’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, alleged that security agencies are conniving with the Ebubeagu militia group to kill innocent people in order to blackmail the group. The group described the Nigeria Police and Ebubeagu as “partners in crime.”   IPOB dismissed as “laughable and fabricated,” claims that its members were responsible for the heinous act. The pro-Biafra movement said its members would never…

Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The Imo State Police Command on Saturday said hoodlums suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, armed group, the Eastern Security Network, ESN, attacked the Agwa Police Division, in Oguta Local Government Area, and allegedly killed four police officers and forced two suspects in custody to escape from detention. The command’s State Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Michael Abattam, disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri. He said the hoodlums used a tipper truck to break the gate of the police station in order to gain entrance into the station before they threw  Improvised Explosives Devices (IEDS) and…