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Nigerian Music legend, Eedris Abdulkareem has said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government will soon start arresting Nigerians for speaking Igbo. Eedris said this while condemning the arrest of Veteran Nollywood actor, Chiwetalu Agu Evritinnaija recalls that Chiwetalu Agu was arrested on Thursday by the Nigerian Army for wearing Biafra regalia. The Nigerian Army confirmed he was arrested for inciting members of the public and soliciting support for IPOB. In a post on his Instagram page, Abdulkareem said Agu deserved to be honoured in the East for his brave act. Describing Buhari’s government as a useless one, he wrote: “No matter the kind of film Chiwetalu Agu acts he’s more wise and brave than other actors in the East and must be honored. “People will soon be arrested for speaking Igbo in Nigeria.” We bring the news to you as it comes.....

Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Counsel to pro-Biafra agitator, Nnamdi Kanu, has condemned the arrest of Nollywood veteran, Chiwetalu Agu by the Department of State Services, DSS. Ejiofor said the arrest of Agu by the secret police was an indication of how the Nigerian security agents are desecrating the Southeast. The Nigerian Army had arrested the Nollywood actor for donning a Biafra regalia in Onitsha Anambra State. Agu was arrested on Thursday in Upper Iweka Bridge by soldiers while carrying out a charity exercise. He was, however, released by the Nigerian Army, and shortly afterwards, re-arrested by DSS operatives on Friday. Reacting to the development, Ejiofor called for the immediate and unconditional release of the 65-years-old actor. He charged the military to apologise to Agu for violating his fundamental human rights. In a statement he issued on Saturday, Ejiofor said: “I was shocked to watch a respected elder and widely celebrated Nollywood Veteran Actor, who has creditably distinguished ...

  A video making the rounds on social media shows the moment a lady allegedly collapsed after drinking a substance rumoured to be Dettol. Over the past few days, #Alchohol challenge has been trending on on Tik tok with people pouring different kinds of substances on their body. The challenge stemmed from a particular verse off Joeboy’s new track where he said….‘That’s why I sip my alcohol. I don’t want to reason bad things no more. I don’t want to go back to where I dey before… However, following the challenge, several ladies including men have been pouring all sorts of substances on their body as they vibe to tA video making the rounds on social media shows the moment a lady allegedly collapsed after drinking a substance rumoured to be Dettol. Over the past few days, #Alchohol challenge has been trending on on Tik tok with people pouring different kinds of substances on their body.he lyrics. A particular video of a lady who used a bottle of dettol for her own challenge sparked out...

Former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Attahiru Jega has stated that lawmakers kicking against electronic voting are doing so over their selfish interest. Jega in his speech at a lecture titled, ‘Politics, governance and leadership recruitment in 21st century democracy,’ organised by Kwara Visioners Network for Rural Development at the University of Ilorin on Saturday October 9, stated that from his own experience, one of the major ways in which the integrity of the electoral process is undermined is in the manual transmission of results from the polling units to ward, local and constituency levels. He maintained that refusal of the National Assembly to allow INEC to transmit election results electronically was tantamount to rejecting electronic voting. The former INEC Chairman said “The National Assembly, after 2019 elections, promised to review the electoral legal framework which will improve the integrity of the electoral commission. “The most importa...

A  thirty-two-year-old married man, Sunday Ukeme, has been arrested by detectives attached to the Akodo Police Division, Lagos for allegedly defiling a neighbour's daughter (name withheld). The incident happened in Idaso town, Ibeju Lekki at about 10.30 pm on September 20 after the suspect's wife left for vigil in one of the churches in the neighbourhood. The victim's mother had kept her in the custody of the suspect's wife, Mary Sunday when she (victim's mother) travelled out of the town for three weeks. According to the victim's mother who reported the case at the police station, when she returned from the journey the victim reported to her that she was defiled by the suspect. Confirming the incident to newsmen, the public relations officer of the command, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, said consequent upon the report lodged at the Police Station on October 4, detectives immediately arrested the suspect. ''During interrogation, the suspect confessed to the cr...

The Muhammadu Buhari regime says there’s no distinction between those peacefully demanding a separate country from Nigeria and bandits killing people across the country. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said the idea that the Buhari regime through the military was handling bandits different from the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Yoruba Nation separatists was false.   He said it was a “misconception that the Federal Government is softer on the terrorists in the North East and the bandits from the North West and the way they handle separatists and other criminals from the South East and South West.”Describing the notion as a fallacy, the government spokesperson said, “The truth of the matter is that the Federal Government does not make a distinction between terrorists and bandits. “ As far as the Federal Government is concerned they are all criminals and they are treated the same way,”...

The governor stated that President Muhammadu Buhari emerged in 2015 as a result of the zoning arrangement but the country had not gained anything Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said that zoning of political offices to any part of the country is actually not the country’s problem. Ortom made the remarks while answering questions from journalists in Makurdi shortly after he returned from his party’s meeting in Abuja. The governor stated that President Muhammadu Buhari emerged in 2015 as a result of the zoning arrangement but the country had not gained anything from his administration despite the zoning. He said, “Is zoning the problem of Nigeria? I have always said that zoning is good but it’s the cause of the marginalisation of our people and the cause of the poverty. Beyond that, America where we borrowed the presidential system of government from, you will recall that they don’t do zoning. George Bush was president of America. At a point, two of his sons were governors and o...