Yearly Archives

2018

Pro-Biafra groups get Ohanaeze backing

A close associate of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, who is based in London, Dr Chukwuma Egemba, has revealed the next phase of action plans being worked upon by a coalition of pro-Biafra groups to…

Niger Delta peace still fragile, Clark warns FG

Foremost Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, has urged the Federal Government to show more commitments to the agreements reached at a peace parley with the Niger Delta elders in order to forestall renewed hostilities in the region.…

Fireworks Over june 12

The dust raised by last Wednesday’s declaration of June 12 as Democracy Day is still reverberating in the air. Hitherto, successive administrations since 1999 had designated May 29 as public holiday to mark the return of the country to…

2019 and PDP’s comeback bid

Shortly, after his election as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last December, Prince Uche Secondus issued quit notice to the All Progressives Congress (APC). He said the tenancy of the APC in the Presidential…

Buhari/Obasanjo face-off: George sues for peace

A former deputy national chairman (South) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olabode George, has appealed for an amicable resolution of the deepening face-off between President Muhammadu Buhari and ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. In a…

Submit yourself for probe, Fayose tells Obasanjo

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has urged former President Olusegun Obasanjo to submit himself for probe rather than raising unnecessary alarm. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, Fayose argued that Obasanjo…