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               Reno Omokri, a former presidential assistant on new media, has described the Buhari government as ‘pathetic’. He stated this in a statement on Monday. Omokri wondered why the current administration usually condemned and demonized those who criticized its actions, programmes and policies. He also listed names of those the Buhari government had ‘attacked’ in recent times because of their position on economy, security and other issues. He wrote: “President Jonathan’s administration has the enviable record of advancing Nigeria’s anti corruption war and delivered results to the point where we made our best ever improvement in Transparency International’s CPI in 2014 when we moved 8 places forward from 144 to 136. “Can this government say the same. How many people will they demonize? “Bill Gates spoke, and they said he is a dropout. TY Danjuma has spoken, they have labeled him an anarchist. “President Obasanjo spoke and they say he has Messiah complex. President

The International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague has indicated that it will investigate the September 2017 invasion of a community in Abia State, Nigeria by soldiers of the Nigeria Army during a military exercise codenamed Operation Python Dance.                      This was contained in a letter from the office of the prosecutor in response to a petition filed to the court by a Nigerian award winning journalist, Mr. Ahaoma Kanu, following the military occupation of Afara Ukwu community in Umuahia in a bid to arrest the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, which led to the killing of several unarmed members of the group. The letter with reference number OTP-CR-413/17 dated March 20, 2018, which is the second response by the court to the petitioner, confirmed that the military invasion and deaths recorded relates to a situation already under preliminary examination by the Office of the Prosecutor. “Accordingly, your communication will be analysed in

A supporter of President Muhammdu Buhari and the General Overseer of Soul Winning Chapel, Lagos, Rev Dr Moses Iloh has given reasons he will not vote for the president if he runs in the 2019 election.                       Rev. Iloh said he had supported President Buhari because of his will to fight corruption in the country but disappointed that he (Buhari) can only expose corruption and not tackle it. “If Buhari wants to come out again, I doubt if I will vote for him”, the cleric told Sun. “Reasons being that he cannot fight corruption but he did very well by exposing corruption. “I think he should retire. I don’t think he can fight corruption. Let’s get someone else. “Corruption is of the devil and I don’t think he understands the difference between the devil and righteousness. “But he has done a very good job for which I still praise him. What Buhari has done is that he has succeeded in exposing corruption. “Without Buhari, none of us could have known that a snake can

             The oppressive one-North is on its death-bed. General Yakubu Danjuma sang the Nunc Dimittis on Saturday. But if the Middle Belt states are free finally, the credit cannot go to this taciturn General from Takum. The Fulani conquerors deserve the prize; they scored the golden own goal.  It has taken the Hausa/Fulani and their Kanuri collaborators just three years of bloody indiscretion to unravel 104 years of one-North myth. The greedy mice of the tiny Fulani elite have peed into the North’s soup pot; everyone has now learnt to answer his mother’s name.  We are at the threshold of a new phase in the struggle for a new Nigeria. But then, the battle has just started. The dying won’t let go of their inheritance quietly. Beyond Danjuma’s Taraba, Benue and Plateau, is there anywhere else that is not feeling the pangs of Hausa/Fulani/Kanuri elite destruction? I call their abode the Core-North which is not interested in catching up with anybody. Its interest is in dragging every

By Odogwu Emeka Odogwu (Awka), Chuks Oyema-Aziken, Daniel Tyokua (Abuja), Maurice Okafor (Enugu), Rotimi Agboluaje (Ibadan), Blessing Ibunge (Port Harcourt), Pwanagba Agabus (Jos), Austine Tule, Makurdi (Makurdi), Jibrin Miachi (Kaduna) Eminent Nigerians yesterday applauded former Defence Minister, Gen.                Theophilus Danjuma, for exposing alleged ignoble roles of the military in the on-going killing of innocent citizens by armed Fulani herdsmen. They particularly hailed Danjuma for challenging Nigerians to defend themselves against the marauding herdsmen, because the military lacked the neutrality to protect them. Danjuma had at the weekend asked Nigerians, especially the people of Taraba State, his home state, to protect themselves or risk being killed by the herdsmen. Speaking at the convocation of the Taraba State University, Danjuma said: “You must rise to protect yourselves from these people; if you depend on the armed forces to protect you, you will all die”. H

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has lambasted the leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo for insisting on restructuring, describing the entity as ‘already collapsed country.’                                   While reiterating its commitment to a referendum for Biafra exit, the group berated the Minister of Transport, Chief Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, for drumming support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid. This, IPOB noted, was part of the minister’s scheming for power in 2023 even when he does not know what would become of the country after 2019. The Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Emma Powerful, who was reacting to the minister’s comments during a convocation lecture at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, said that “anybody cutting a deal with the Hausa-Fulani caliphate to further enrich his family through lucrative political appointments at the expense of the well-being of over 70 million people needs to see a psychiatrist because their bogus one-Nigeria agenda i

LEADERS from the three geopolitical zones in the Southern part of the country and the North-Central, on Saturday, vowed to remain resolute over their demand for the restructuring of the country.                 At a mega rally held in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, they declared that no amount of intimidation blackmail and killings could deter them in their quest for a country that is based on equity, fairness and justice. Host governor, Seriake Dickson, joined the coalition of leaders to reiterate his call on the Federal Government to restructure the country before the 2019 general election. Dickson, who spoke the South-South mega rally with the theme: Restructuring the Nigerian Federation, noted that, only restructuring would guarantee the development, unity and peaceful coexistence of the country. The governor maintained that those championing the cause of restructuring were patriots and true believers in the Nigerian project. Dickson, who emphasised the need for consens

The 2017 Global TB Report has ranked Nigeria amongst the 14 countries with high rate of Tuberculosis, Human Immune Virus, HIV/AIDs and Multidrugs Resistant Tuberculosis, MDR-TB in the world. The country is also ranked 7th among the 30 high TB burden countries and 2nd in Africa.                 Minister of Health, professor Isaac Adewole who disclosed this on Friday while commemorating the 2018 World TB Day in Abuja also said that Nigeria also falls among the 10 countries that account for 64 percent of the global gap in TB case finding. According to Adewole, the TB burden was further compounded by the menace of drug resistance TB (DR-TB) and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. ” In 2017, the country notified only 109,904 out of the estimated 407,000 all forms of TB cases (with treatment coverage of 25.8%), leaving a gap of 302,096 comprising undetected or detected but not notified cases especially in non-DOTS sites. “In the same year, the proportion of Childhood TB was 7% of all forms of TB c

             The association of Indi Eze Ndi Igbo, Lagos State branch has appealed to the national headquarters of Ohanaeze to stop the planned local government election into the union in Lagos State slated for 24th of March, 2017. In a communiqué, after a meeting of Ndi Eze Ndi Igbo Lagos branch at Festac extension, jointly signed by all the Ezes and released to the press by the group Secretary, Eze Jhon Greg Ezebuadi, the association noted that the forms currently being sold were without serial numbers and may be difficult to verify, while advocating that the process of sale of forms for election into Ohanaeze should be improved upon. The association, appealed that the structure of Ohanaeze in the state, local government area, (LGA) and local council development area (LCDA) should not be tampered with for the future sustainability and existence of the group, while stressing that executive membership of the group was not for all comers affairs. The release urged the committee from