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The Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Thursday called on President Muhammadu Buhari’s aides to explain to Nigerians the health condition of the president. In a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary in Abakaliki, Comrade Uche Achi-Okpagha, Ohaneze insisted that President Buhari’s aides especially the Minister of Information Lai Mohammed owe the people of the country an explanation on the current health of the President. It, however, warned against wishing the President dead saying “God forbid that we should wish anybody death because death is like an identity card which we all have with its attendant expiry date”.

Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, the Lagos State governor, on Wednesday signed into law the anti-kidnapping bill recently passed by the state House of Assembly, with a pledge to ensure its full implementation to eradicate kidnapping once and for all in the state. The Prohibition of the Act of Kidnapping Law imposes a penalty of life imprisonment on kidnapping for ransom. The law also stipulates that where a victim dies in the course of kidnap, the suspect is liable on conviction to death. Governor Ambode, who spoke at the signing ceremony held at Lagos House in Ikeja, said the spate of kidnapping in the state had gotten to a level that required decisive action from government, hence the need for the enactment of the law to send serious message to perpetrators of such heinous crime. He said aside the enactment of the law, the state government was also putting in place appropriate measures particularly in the schools and other vulnerable targets to prevent kidnapping and other security breach...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan says the only option that will solve the agitation in the Niger Delta is true and fiscal federalism as practiced in the United States from whom the country copied its presidential model of government. He said states should be allowed to exploit their natural resources as they deem fit and pay adequate taxes to the Federal Government, noting that this was also the position of the 2014 National Conference. He also linked religious killings in parts of the country in recent time to lack of political will to check impunity among citizens and adherents of certain religious sects. Jonathan stated these in his presentation to the US House Sub-Committee on Africa on Wednesday, February 1, 2017, as chairman, Goodluck Jonathan Foundation with theme, ‘Challenges of Nigerian Christians and the Niger Delta Question.’ It would be recalled that in checking the agitations of the regional militants his administration, an off-shoot of the Umaru Ya’Adua admin...

The employer (office witheld), Engineer Wole Odunuga, was arrested after officers of Metro Police chased his vehicle, a white Toyota Hilux Van with the registration number SMK 707 CA, from Ketu/Ojota Flyover to 7 – Up before Toll gate. According to Promptnews, the officer had on Wednesday night at around 7:20 p.m.  Stopped the vehicle but the lone occupant defied the police order and sped off. After forcing the vehicle to a stop around 7 – Up, the officer were shocked to see a man, later identified as Daniel Dabis, with his legs and hands tied to his back and put at the back of the Hilux. During preliminary investigations, the driver of the vehicle claimed the victim stole his money and ran away from his Abuja home to Lagos, so he was transporting him back to Abuja before he was stopped by the Police. He stated: “I been searching for him all over places, which took me to his village in Plateau state. It was one of his friends that told me he was in Lagos where he was hiding. ...

The Police in Kaduna State have arrested five suspects for allegedly planning to attack one of the remote areas of southern Kaduna. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Agyole Abbey, made the disclosure while presenting the suspects to newsmen on Friday in Kaduna. Abbeh said the suspects were arrested on Thursday evening at Samaru Kataf in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area. He said preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects were allegedly planning to attack one of the remote settlements in the area. “We recovered the following items from the suspects: one Golf car; two Ak-47 rifles; one locally made pistol; three live cartridges; five cell phones; assorted charms; a touch light and the sum of N86,000. “There has been series of arrest of criminals who are being prosecuted. “Priority is being paid to the crisis in southern Kaduna. The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has ordered a robust deployment of Mobile Police Force personnel and other units to the area. The...

Yesterday, there were reports that the Lagos state commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, placed a ban on the February 6th protest against the federal government in Lagos. Speaking exclusively to LIB this morning, the commissioner while clarifying his position on the issue said: "What the police in the command has done is to bring attention of the organizers of the protest to the provision of the constitution. The constitution does allow right to freedom of expression and right to peaceful assembly and the same constitution in section 45 also puts what is called restriction to the fundamental rights.. The implication of that is that the right to freedom of expression, the right to peaceful assembly are not absolute. The constitution has given us that authority to act when those two rights of freedom of assembly and freedom of expression are going to affect the right and freedom of other persons and of course if they are going to affect safety, public order and security. We ha...

2face foundation, owned by singer 2face Idibia who is part of the organizers of the February 6th nationwide protest, says they are in talks with the Lagos state police command and that the police hasn't told them they are banning the protest. Speaking exclusively to LIB this morning, 2face's manager and an executive of 2face foundation, Efe Omoroge, said the police has not informed them that the planned protest has been banned. "We have reached out to them. We are having conversations with them. I am not sure the news making the rounds about the protest is true. The feedback from the police authorities is quite different from that. I am not sure about the source of the police story and how true it is. The police has not told us they are banning the protest. We are in talks with them. They have not communicated that to us either in words, written form or body language. Maybe you should reach out to the police authorities to clarify their stance but on behalf of the 2fac...