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Islamic cleric Ahmad Gumi has asked religious leaders in the South-East and South-West to engage the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Yoruba Nation agitators like he is engaging with bandits in Nigeria’s North-West geopolitical zone. “I hope another Igbo clergy goes into the IPOB militants likewise and talk sense into them, and another Pastor of Oduduwa land talks against the Igboho secessionist tribal movement by way of sensitizing people to the values of a cohesive nationalism that will guaranty freedom, equality, and justice for all,” Mr Gumi wrote on Facebook Sunday. The controversial Islamic clergy said he was making headway with his self-appointed mediation with the murderous bandits, boasting, “I have started to get these raw bandits out of their misadventure but unfortunately, I have few helpers and a mountain of antagonists.” Warning the Nigerian government against declaring bandits terrorists, saying it will have bad consequences for the country, Mr Gumi pushed for dipl...

The Indigenous People of of Biafra (IPOB) has declared one week sit-at-home protest from November 5 to November 10, to prevail on the Federal to release its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The order is coming at a time when Anambra State is preparing for its governorship election, which comes up on November 6. IPOB’s Media and Public Secretary, Emma Powerful disclosed this in a statement made available to our correspondent in Awka, Anambra State on Saturday.   Powerful said, “Following the adjournment of our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s court case to 10th of November 2021, by the Federal High Court, Abuja, we the great movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra wish to inform Biafrans, friends of Biafra and lovers of freedom that IPOB will lock down Biafraland from 5th of November to 10th of November except Sunday, November 7th, a day our people worship the Almighty God if the Nigeria Government fails to release our leader unconditionally before 4th of November 2021. Our leade...

    Former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has revealed that his father was jailed for failing to send him to school while he was growing up as a teenager. Atiku stated this while delivering a speech at the Baze University Graduation ceremony in Abuja on Friday. The former Vice President also said that his father later embraced the idea of education and despite his humble background, he enjoyed quality education for free. Atiku, in his speech titled, ‘Solving Nigeria’s Education Challenges’, said, “I was a schoolboy and a herdsboy, and I fed my family. “When I was 11 years old, my father drowned and died while crossing a river in the neighbourhood. He was not up to 40 years. “Being an only child, I was raised by my maternal grandparents. I remember, sometimes we could barely afford one meal a day. “Despite my difficult background, I went to school for free, in fact, I was paid to go to school. “Initially, my father did not buy the i...

       Charly Boy’s daughter, Dewy Oputa has revealed plans to adopt a child when she marries her lover. She made this known on her Instagram page. Dewy, who opened up on her sexuality in 2020, and announced that she was a lesbian, said would adopt a child or consider fostering. According to her, she is indifferent about birthing a child. She said “we do plan on having kids, we were considering adopting or fostering but I’m indifferent about birthing a child.” When asked if she is married, Dewy said she has met her partner’s family and is waiting for her partner to propose. “I am not yet married but I have met my partner’s family and she has met mine. The only thing left now is the ring and when I get it I will let you guys know,” she said.         We bring the news to you as it comes.....

Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho has alleged that some politicians are pressurizing him to beg the Presidency.   Igboho said some politicians have been “pressurizing” him and his wife to sign documents they could use to beg the presidency on his behalf. Speaking through his counsel, Yomi Alliyu, the agitator said any document claiming he authorized an politician was fake. In a statement signed by Alliyu, Igboho said he was being pressured by politicians who were unconcerned about his incarceration in Benin Republic.   The statement reads: “We have been reliably informed that some politicians are pressuring our client and his wife to give them endorsement to use at the presidency to justify their new found love and/or defection to the All Progressives Congress and/or curry affection from those in power.   Let the whole world be aware, especially the presidency, that Sunday Adeyemo is totally apolitical with no special love or hatred for any political party as he has f...

Suspected Boko Haram terrorists in about ten gun trucks, in the early hours of Saturday, invaded Katarko village, in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State. A source, who spoke to DAILY POST from a hidden place, said the attackers drove into the village in a convoy of gun trucks at about 8am shooting sporadically. He said troops stationed in the community engaged the attackers. We had to run for our lives,” he said. It was also gathered that there was reinforcement by troops of Sector 2 with support from the air component of Operation Hadin Kai. Details of the attack were still sketchy as of the time of filing this report. Katarko village which is about 20 kilometers away from Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, had previously suffered from Boko Haram attacks.     We bring the news to you as it comes.....

A Chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Garus Gololo, has bemoaned the failed road and Mambilla power projects despite gulping a humongous amount of N1.2 trillion in the last five years of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.   Gololo’s reaction in a statement sent to DAILY POST on Friday in Abuja, followed a recent revelation that the amount was invested through Power Ministry during Babatunde Fashola’s time in road, and building peojects of the Mambila Hydro Electricity Dam, which both projects have failed woefully in Taraba State.   The APC Chieftain called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack the Minister of Works and hand him over to the anti-graft agency for prosecution, given that he failed to justify the fund disbursed to his ministry as the Minister of Works and Power. President Buhari was further called to direct the auditing of funds disbursed to ministries under the Minister from 2016 to 2020, viz: N260.08bn in 2016, N107.38b...