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By Azu Ishiekwene Back in the day, weather forecasts were a joke. And I mean literally. The weather forecast segment which used to come at the end of the news bulletin on Nigeria’s national broadcaster, NTA, was the butt of cruel jokes amongst folks. Often when the forecasters said it would rain, we said they meant the opposite. Seven out of 10 times, we were right; and the other three times, it drizzled on one side of the street and was stone dry on the other. That was in the early 1970s and 1980s when either as a result of…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has hailed the judgment of the Court of Appeal Abuja which discharged and acquitted its Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on Thursday. According to IPOB, the judgment showed that some judges are still upright and reliable. IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful in a press statement commended the court of Appeal for the landmark judgment. The statement read in part: “Yes, we are happy to hear that our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been acquitted and discharged. That is to show that some judges are good and know the law and understand that Nnamdi Kanu did not…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Respite, Thursday, came to the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, as the Court of Appeal in Abuja, discharged and acquitted him of all counts of terrorism charge preferred against him by the Federal Government. The Appeal Court in a unanimous ruling, quashed the seven-count charges against Kanu. In a decision by a three-man panel led by Justice Jummai Hanatu, the appellate court said it was satisfied that the Federal Government flagrantly violated the law, when it forcefully renditioned Kanu from Kenya to the country for the continuation of his trial. The…
Our Reporter, Abuja The embattled Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, won big Thursday (today) as the Appeal Court sitting in Abuja has discharged him from the charges brought against him by the Federal Government. Kanu is being prosecuted by the Federal Government at the Federal High Court in Abuja for 15-count charge bordering on treasonable felony and terrorism offences he was alleged to have committed in his quest to actualise his campaign for Biafra. A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal ruled that the Federal High Court lacks the jurisdiction to try him in view…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The National leadership of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has disowned Prince Nnanna Ukaegbu laying claims to the chairmanship of the Abia State chapter of the party, dismissing him as an impostor. This is as the party, has recognised Rev. Augustine Ehiemere as the legitimate Chairman of the party in Abia State. The party in a statement in Abuja, urged security agencies and the party faithful to disregard Ukaegbu and cooperate with Ehiemere. Ikengaonline had reported that Ukaegbu had sometime in August, invaded the state secretariat of the party in Umuahia claiming that he had been recognised by Owerri…
By Osmund Agbo When on Sunday, September 22 of 2019, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan, in an interview with Daily Trust and on the sideline of the Brazilian Consulate exhibition of Ife artifacts, stated that there are more Yoruba people in Brazil than in Nigeria, many believed that His Royalty Majesty grossly exaggerated the facts and so stretched the truth way beyond its elastic limit. But at any rate, there is no denying that Orisha and other aspects of Yoruba culture and religion, continue to define the everyday identities of many Afro-descendants in the old Portuguese colony and beyond.…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The lead counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, on Wednesday said judgment will be delivered Thursday the 13th of October 2022, between Nnamdi Kanu and the Federal Republic of Nigeria, at the Court of Appeal Abuja division. Ejiofor disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri, while speaking on Kanu’s appeal court case in Abuja. According to the lawyer, “We wish to inform … all followers of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, that we have just received notification from the Court of Appeal, Abuja Judicial Division, that the long-awaited Judgment in Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s Appeal No. CA/ABJ/CR/625/2022…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri Striking thunder has allegedly killed two youths in the Ndegwu community of Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State. The names of the victims were given as Emeka Mbah from Umuejekubi, Umuahum and Chigbo Odionye from Umuadi Umuogwuta, all in the Ndegwu community, Owerri West LGA. A source from the community who made this known to newsmen in Owerri said the incident happened on Monday while they were working at a building construction site. An eyewitness claimed that the lightning thunder affected two others who later survived but had bruises on their bodies. This came at…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has announced the payment of the sum of hundred thousand Naira before bereaved families can paste posters of their dead loved ones in the state. This came barely two months after the governor imposed ten million tax on candidates of the various political parties who wish to mount or paste their posters anywhere in the state. The new government policy was contained in a letter addressed to community leaders by the Managing Director of Anambra State Signage and Advertisement Agency, Mr Tony Odili Ujubuon͂u. The letter which was addressed to the chairman…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka A Federal High Court sitting in Awka has sentenced a 21-year old man to seven months in prison for raping his 14 year-old younger sister. The convict, Mr Chinedu Eziuzo from Adazi-Enu in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State, raped his sister in 2021 but was arrested this year on May 31, 2022. Delivering judgment, the presiding judge, Dr Nnamdi Dimgba, said the sentence will start from the day of arrest. The convict was further handed down a non-custodial sentence of community service that will last not less than three hours each day.