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T he current update as gathered while speaking in Enugu on Tuesday, the leader of the Biafra Zionist Federation, Benjamin Onwuka, disclosed that when fully functional, the “Biafran government” would banish the founder of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, from “Biafraland.” The fresh report gathered according to newsmen, the legal practitioner who recently announced the formation of a Biafra government, said Mbaka and some other clerics were sabotaging the agitation for Biafra. Onwuka who said his “Biafran government” would send such clergymen away from Biafra, also threatened to confiscate the Adoration Ground, the worship centre of Mbaka’s Adoration Ministry, adding that Biafra agitators have marked Mbaka as an ‘enemy of Biafra.’ He warned Mbaka specifically, saying, “The Zionists are warning Ejike Mbaka that he is putting his Adoration Ministry on the line. All the clerics supporting these killings would be sent away from ...

Cameroon has deported 100,000 Nigerian refugees in the hope of stemming the spread of the terrorist group Boko Haram, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday. The group said in its new report that the deportation defied a plea by the UN refugee agency to not return anyone to north-eastern Nigeria, where Boko Haram have killed thousands of people, until security and the human rights situation improve considerably. The HRW report noted that the deported people were likely to face new violence, displacement and destitution. The group, which investigates allegations of human rights abuses worldwide, says the report is based on interviews with more than 60 refugees. It added that soldiers tortured, assaulted and sexually exploited Nigerian asylum seekers and denied them access to the UN refugee agency. The rights group claimed Cameroon deported, often violently, tens of thousands of the refugees since early 2015. “The Cameroonian military torture and abuse of Ni...

PSALMS ALIVE 2017, 1st Oct by 3pm. Heaven is set to pour out on us Nigeria; you can't afford to miss this. In the morning 2nd oct we shall have a powerful contact session by 7am

Benue state (the food basket of the nation) has shown Nigeria that food is not the only thing they can offer to the Nation afterall. This state has also done well in producing numerous reputable and celebrated Nigerians just like other middlebelt and Nigerian states. PLS if u are from Benue, U can help by expanding the list from where i stop, if u know more One love 2my Benue peeps CHRIS MORGAN ABAH OCHOGWU (a k a Chris Morgan) Very talented Nigerian gospel artiste. If u are a lover of Nigerian gospel music and you don't know Chris Morgan, then u are still about to start OWIE ABUTU. this is one of the people i respect so much as far as music is concern.God have been using him to do wonders  MEG OTANWA Beautiful and heavily endowed talented Nigerian actress   GABRIEL OCHE AMANYI (A k a Terry G) Ginja ur swagga Akpako Master. He needs no more identification WILSON OZIOKO. The marry me crooner HASSAN IBRAHIM & M...

Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello The strike action embarked upon by workers in Kogi state assumed a new turn on Monday as the leadership of the organised labour alleged threats to their lives. This is coming as government threatened to sack and replace the striking workers if they refuse to return to their duty posts. The labour leaders alleged that agents of government including armed thugs and “overzealous” security agents had been trailing them since the strike commenced last Friday. The workers in a statement signed by Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Olakunle Faniyi and Kolawole James and Joint Public Services negotiating council counterpart, Comrade Isah Abubakar, said the aim of the people was to maim the labour leaders over their roles in the ongoing strike that had paralysed government activities in the state. The workers said, “The organised labour n...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. PHOTO: SEYLLOU / AFP President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate evacuation of Nigerian students stranded in Dominican Island occasioned by the reported Hurricane Maria that thrashed the Island. Nigerian students attend medical schools in Dominican Islands which prepare them to move to the U. S. and Europe for the completion of their medical degree programmes. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that following the president’s directive, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had since been on top of the situation. NAN gathered that the ministry,which has been monitoring the situation, had already assigned a senior official to travel for the purpose of issuing the stranded students with temporary travel certificates. The affected students had since been evacuated to safety. When contacted for comment on the issue, Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, confirmed t...

News The Adamawa State House of Assembly has impeached its Deputy Speaker, Hon. Sunday Peter. The motion for Peter’s impeachment was moved by member representing Uba Gaya in the Assembly, Muhammed Hayatu Atiku, and was signed by 17 members of the House. The development was also followed by a motion for the dissolution of the leadership of APC in the House leading to election of Hon. Hassan Barguma as the Majority leader, Hon Abubakar Isa, representing Shelleng constituency, as the Deputy Majority leader and Adamu Usman as the Chief Whip. The House also moved for the replacement of the minority leadership of the House, with Lusambani Dilli becoming the Minority Leader and Justina Nkom becoming the Minority Whip. Officials have not, however, given reasons for the changes. The state Assembly which has been on recess since August 9, resumed on Monday, to introduce the sweeping changes. The embattled deputy speaker was...

war' North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho speaks to the media outside the Millennium hotel New York Credit: Reuters Nick Allen , Washington 25 September 2017 • 4:35pm N orth Korea's foreign minister said US President Donald Trump has "declared war" on his country and threatened to shoot down US jets in international airspace. Ri Yong Ho said the "declaration of war" meant North Korea could target US bombers . He said: "The question of who won't be around much longer will be answered then." That was a reference to Mr Trump's recent indication on Twitter that the North Korean foreign minister, and leader Kim Jong-un "won't be around much longer". North Korean leader Kim Jong-un Credit: AP S peaking outside a hotel in New York Mr Ri said: "Trump claimed our leadership would not be around much longer. He declared a war on our country....

Director, Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies (CPSS), University of Ilorin, Dr. Mahfouz Adedimeji, has observed that the ‘animalizing’ of those who are against the actualization of Biafra by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has led to the alienation of the group. Speaking in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, the Unity Don maintained that the IPOB’s agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra as a misplacement of priorities. The University don while calling on agitators to embrace dialogue, likened IPOB agitation to cutting off one’s head to cure a headache. Adedimeji warned IPOB that there would be greater problems after secession, which they won’t be able to handle. According to Adedimeji, “There is an overarching message of the Peace Day that we need to internalize. “The message is the need to work together as one people regardless of our ethnic, religious, political or ideological differences. “...

September 25, 2017 The President, Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, on Monday asked lawyers to assist the bench on speedy delivery of justice by stopping frivolous applications and other measures that might unnecessarily delay proceedings. Speaking at the inaugural sitting of the court of appeal in Lokoja, Kogi state capital, Bulkachuwa said the judiciary was poised to ensure prompt delivery of justice across the country. According to her, the sitting of the Abuja Division and a panel of Sharia Appeal Justice in Lokoja, in the next two weeks was aimed at reducing the need for litigants who had to travel to Abuja to get justice. She advised lawyers to always present their matters simply and briefly so that the court can have a smooth and successful session. The Appeal Court president said, “There are ongoing reforms which will aide quick dispensation of justice. There are special task forces mad...

The Origin of 'Mammy Markets' in Nigerian Army Barracks What is now known as"Mammy Market" in all barracks nationwide, came to be as a result of the industry of Mrs Anthony Ochefu. Thanks to an Idoma local brew called "enyi". Now, nobody remembers to recognise this history maker and accord the honour due to her. In 1959, Mammy Ode, a young girl from Jericho-Ugboju in the present Otukpo local government area of Benue state was married to Anthony Aboki Ochefu, a young non-commissioned military officer who had just been posted to Enugu from Abeokuta. They were quartered at the Army Barracks, Abakpa, Enugu. To beat idleness and perhaps earn some money to support her young family, Mrs Mammy Ochefu established a business of selling soft drinks. She also prepared gruel, which is popularly called 'Umu or enyi' in Idoma, or kunu in Hausa, for sale to the soldiers in the barrack to help quench their thirst and energise them. She soon became popular with se...

Ahead of the upcoming Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National convention, former Minister of Transport and Chieftain of the party, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has said ex- National Vice-Chairman of the party, South, Olabode George, would not step down for anybody. Babatope, who stated this while addressing newsmen in Lagos, maintained that Bode George remains the best candidate for the party’s National Chairman. The former Minister faulted the call by a group within the party that George should step down for a younger candidate ahead of the convention. A group within the PDP known as “Renaissance,’’ had recently endorsed former Ogun State Governor, Gbenga Daniel, for the party’s chairmanship position. Reacting to the endorsement, Babatope said George has the experience, maturity and passion, more than anything else was required to reposition the party so will not step down. He said, “How can anyone say George should step down for a more youthful ...

September 23, 2017   THE Presidency has assured that the recent declaration of the Independent Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist group has made it easier to trace and block its foreign sources of funds Senior Special Assistant to the president on Diaspora Affairs, Hon Abike Dabiri, told the Tribune Online at the sideline of the ongoing 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York that foreign sources of funds for the secessionist group were more than the two already named by government. Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed had last Wednesday declared that the sources of fund for IPOB had been traced to France and the United Kingdom. Dabiri noted that the declaration of the group as a terrorist organization followed a meticulous investigation by the federal government. She revealed that these sources had been known to the federal given over a long period, adding that now that gov...

September 18, 2017 Following the condemnation by the Senate that the Nigerian Army acted outside the purview of the Nigerian Constitution in the clampdown on Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and the invasion of the South-east region, the Army has insisted that it acted within the ambit of the constitution. Opposition and criticisms have continued to trail the Army’s deployment in the South-east and the crackdown on IPOB members. Constitutional lawyers have also lampooned the Nigerian military and the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) for abusing the 1999 Constitution, and derogating the provisions of Section 217 of the constitution and the Terrorism Act 2014. But speaking in Abuja, the Chief of Army Staff (CAS), Lt General Tukur Buratai, said Monday that the military acted constitutionally and within the purview of the law. Buratai contended that the military is under compulsion...

Otukpo-icho is one of the native villages in otukpo and idoma land as a whole with the combination of both Christians and traditionalist. It is a village known for peace and a home full of brave people and law abiding individuals. A family lost their father who happen to be someone who practice the culture of the land and is fully into it.after the mans death the children all gathered and forcefully want to bury their father in the christian way. And they called policemen to arrest people.now the body is in the police station.the question now is where were the children when their father was eating the traditional meat and drink?

IPOB members will be tried for murder, arson – Abia CP The new Police Commissioner in Abia state, Mr Anthony Ogbizi, has said that suspected members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), recently arrested, will be prosecuted for murder, arson and other related crimes. Ogbizi disclosed this during a press briefing and parade of seven suspected members of IPOB at Ariaria police station in  Aba. He said following the proscription of IPOB by governors in the South East and its declaration as a terrorist group by Nigerian Army, anybody found with Biafran materials would be arrested and prosecuted. He said that they would be prosecuted under the anti-terrorism Act to ensure they were properly dealt with. Ogbizi, echoing what the army had earlier said, stressed that IPOB by their action had shown itself to be a “terrorist group” which must be dealt with as such. He said that between Sept. 10 and Sept 14 the Ariaria police station w...

Re: Buhari, Buratai, And The Python Panacea  One Emmanuel Ugwu wrote and published the article “Buhari, Buratai, and the Python Panacea” that has been published on several online platforms. Ugwu should be commended for this piece not because it was a work of art or some remarkable masterpiece but because in that single rant he was able to lay bare what ails the southeast of Nigeria. From this writer it became apparent that the problem of the Igbo nationality is that too many great minds from that ethnic stock have taken the concept of being gentlemen too far to an extent that they have handed their fate and that of the entire geo-political zone over to frothing rabid fellows like the writer and the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. The distortion of facts overseen by such characters take on an hallucinatory quality to an extent that one is constantly having ...

Turkey Disowns Biafra Agitation, ‘Diplomat’ Abdülkadir Erkahraman The Republic of Turkey has denied ever supporting the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB and its agitation for the Sovereign State of Biafra. The Country made this statement via its Embassy in Abuja. The full statement reads thus;   The Embassy of the Republic of Turkey wishes to inform the Nigerian public about the following: Abdülkadir Erkahraman, a Turkish citizen, has been sharing videos for some time against the Nigerian Government and presents himself as a Turkish diplomat. Mr. Abdülkadir Erkahraman is neither a diplomat nor a civil servant or an official representative of the Government of Turkey. The Government of Turkey is committed to the territorial integrity and po...