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Professor Banji Akintoye Professor Banji Akintoye, the Alana of Ilana Omo Oduduwa and a member of the Senate during the Second Republic, has said Yoruba people’s journey to redemption has begun. In a statement released on Tuesday by the Media and Communications Secretary of the group, Akintoye said Yoruba people all over the world should be prepared to welcome their freedom in no distant future. Professor Banji Akintoye He said the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria and the amalgamation of 1914 of the Southern and Northern Protectorates in 1914 by the British were the means through which the assets and sovereignty of the people of the Middle Belt and southern parts of the country were hijacked. He said, “The Yoruba journey to redemption has started, and soonest, we are going to reach our Canaan land without any bloodshed.” The statement announced a former Commissioner for Education in Osun State and former Director of Institute of African Studies at Obafemi Awolowo University, Il...

The Department of State Services (DSS) has said some criminal elements are planning to carry out violent attacks on public places during the Christmas season. Peter Afunanya, spokesman for the DSS, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. According to Afunanya, the attacks are to be executed with the use of explosives, suicide bombing and other dangerous weapons. He asked Nigerians to be on the alert, saying the agency was taking steps to prevent such attacks from happening across the country. The statement read, “The Department of State Services (DSS) wishes to inform the public about plans by some criminal elements to carry out violent attacks on public places, including key and vulnerable points during the Yuletide season. “The planned dastardly acts are to be executed through the use of explosives, suicide bombing and other dangerous weapons. “The objective is to create a general sense of fear among the people and subsequently undermine the government. “Against this ...

Hundreds of placard-carrying protesters from Ogbe-ijoh urban communities barricaded the main gate of Government House, Asaba, Delta State Tuesday, demanding a ward in the Warri South Local Government in the state. This is the third protest organised by the aggrieved Ogbe-Ijoh people since the ward creation in 2020 by Delta State Independent Commission. They have organised two protests in Warri recently, drawing the state governor’s attention to their plight. Speaking to journalists, community leaders, Mr. Friday Deinghan and King Jerry Prebor, expressed their disappointments with Ijaw people in Warri after being excluded in the recent ward creation in the Warri South Local Government Area. The Warri South council has 19 wards; Urhobo, nine wards; Itsekiri, 10 wards, while the Ijaw people have no ward. The protesters described it as injustice and an aberration to give the single ward allocated to Warri South council to the Itsekiri who already had 10. They called on ...

Buhari Olanrewaju Ahmed Insecurity in Nigeria has revealed the incompetence of General Buhari’s regime, so much so that no one is safe from any region in Nigeria. Kidnapping has become a lucrative business since the government failed woefully to create an enabling environment for industrialisation which ought to have resulted in job creation for citizens. The tragedy of Nigeria is that it is a country led by a mediocre ruler who promotes nepotism, injustice and oversees the reckless violations of human rights. We live in a country where abject poverty, depression, injustice separate a happy home and push them into crimes they never planned to indulge in. Nigeria is a country that has lost its values and heritage despite the fact that many Nigerians do exceptionally well when they get out of the country. There, obviously, the atmosphere is conducive enough for them to put their talents to good use. Nigeria laughably claims to be the ‘giant of Africa’ yet Boko Haram has on sever...

President Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has yet to return to the Presidential Villa 11 days after he left Abuja for Daura, Katsina State, his hometown, for ‘a week-long private visit’. The President had on December 11 embarked on a seven-day private visit to Daura and was billed to return to work on December 18, 2020. President Buhari “President Muhammadu Buhari is in Daura, Katsina State for a week-long private visit. The aircraft carrying the President from Abuja landed at 4:45pm on Friday at the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua International Airport in Katsina where he was received by the Governor, Aminu Bello Masari; his deputy, Mannir Yakubu; senior government officials and the heads of security agencies in the state. “In Daura to receive President Buhari at the helipad were the Emir, His Highness Alhaji Umar Faruk Umar, leading the members of the Emirate Council and a parade of colourful horse riders and courtiers. “While in Daura, President Buhari will carry out a number of p...

A dreaded gang leader in Cross River State, Kingsley Utomobong, who was arrested for the murder of an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Egbe Edum, is dead. SaharaReporters had reported how Edum was hacked to death by gunmen on Wednesday, December 2, at 8 Miles area, along the Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar. See Also CRIME How Robbery Kingpin Utomobong Was Arrested After Killing Assistant Police Commissioner In Cross River 0 Comments 5 Days Ago It was gathered that he was attacked while waiting for his wife to pick him up after the bus he was travelling in, broke down. According to CrossRiverWatch, Utomobong, who was arrested for the murder of Edum, has been killed in police custody. He was said to have “become too much of a problem.” Known for freely extorting money from residents of the state and inflicting pains on anyone standing in his way, Utomobong was said to be untouchable because of his closeness to Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State. His notorie...

File Photo Mr. Daniel Kokorifa, an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) attached to the Port Harcourt, Rivers State Command, has recounted the tragic killing of his 17-year-old son, Innocent Kokorifa, by men of the Anti-Vice Unit of the Bayelsa Police Command.  He said the incident happened in August 2016 along Airforce Road, Okaka-Epie area in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state.  File Photo YIAGA Kokorifa, who is from Okpotowarie community in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state, said his child was shot in the back while running an errand. He said his son was on an adjoining street when he was killed by the police, along with his dream of becoming a lawyer.  Kokorifa disclosed this in a petition before the Bayelsa Judicial Panel on Police Brutality and Related Extra-Judicial Killings headed by Justice Young Emmanuel Ogola.  Kokorifa, in the petition dated 4th November, 2020 numbered EAA/PI/BYS/240/2020, and throug...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has told the Nigerian government, South-East and South-South Governors, and security agencies that its newly established Eastern Security Network, ESN, is a child of necessity that has come to stay. IPOB said the governments must stop terrorism before thinking of stopping ESN. Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the group, had launched ESN to protect the South-East and South-South regions from “criminal activity” But David Umahi, Ebonyi State Governor and Chairman of the Governors in the region, said the leaders had no hand in the move which he described as very laughable and should be ignored. Reacting via a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, IPOB accused the governors of being against the wish of the masses, describing their disapproval of the outfit as very shameful. The group claimed that the governors, by their statement against ESN, were only exposing their emptiness and detachment from the people. The statement r...

A total of 625 deported Nigerians returned to the country through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) in Abuja. The Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Sunday James, disclosed this in a statement on Monday. He added that 24 other Nigerians were repatriated for various criminal and immigration-related offences abroad. Back in the country, 12 foreign nationals who failed to comply with Nigerian entry requirements, were refused admission and returned, said James. He noted that the year witnessed a global pandemic – COVID-19 – which prompted various countries to enforce mandatory lockdown and border closure before their eventual relaxation within the year. The NIS spokesman stated that Nigeria had its fair share of the COVID-19 experience and the Service, as the lead agency in charge of migration control and border management at the airport in Abuja, stepped up personnel protection to insulate them from contracting the disease. He...

There was pandemonium in the Ada George area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Monday when a group of policemen stripped a bus driver, identified as Emenike, over alleged refusal to pay a bribe. The drivers in the area were said to have repeatedly lamented harassment by the task force and police officers, even as they protested against Monday’s harassment of Emenike. gistnaija Drivers’ welfare Chairman, Choba unit, Bestman Chile, said a policeman demanded bribe from the driver, but the latter defused to part with any money. “He entered Emenike’s vehicle and told him to drive towards the police. “On his way, the policeman started hitting him with a baton and fought for the control of the steering with the young man. “After the driver stopped the vehicle, some policemen came and started beating Emenike, stripped him naked and vandalised his vehicle. “We are drivers. We can’t fight the police. Right now, the road is blocked. We will block the road like this till when the po...

Abdullahi D. Mohammed The second wave/spike of Covid-19 exacerbated by winter had sent panic across Europe and other parts of the world. Governments are taking precautionary steps to stem the rising tide of the pandemic with a variety of drastic measures which includes total or, partial lockdowns, mandatory wearing of mask and other safety protocol. This is coming amidst vaccinations especially in the US and other affected countries. The first wave of the pandemic which, seemingly caught governments across the world unawares, had dealt a fatal blow on livelihood, global economy and intergroup relations and interactions. The social and economic consequences of the pandemic earlier in the year was nothing but catastrophic. It partially shut down the global economy — many lost their jobs and businesses, therefore relying on Government’s interventions or relief package. With the successful trials of and production of vaccines by major pharmaceutical companies, the world, had found ...