By Hector-Roosevelt Udunna Ukegbu Col. Lambert Ogbonna Ihenacho, one of Biafra’s most successful military commanders, passed away Wednesday July 8, 2020 from natural causes. He was born on December 24, 1944 in Upe, in Ngor Okpala LGA of Imo State. He has since been buried in Owerri. He retired from the Nigerian Army as a colonel on September 3, 1990, At the time, he had recently served as the Principal Staff Officer (Colonel General Staff)...
Several communities in Anambra state are on the verge of crisis because of continued leadership of town union after expiration of the term of office of many President-Generals in Anambra State. In many of these communities, the caretaker system alien to the communities have imposed as a way to maintain the status quo in flagrant violation of the towns’ constitution, and this we gathered is brewing bad blood that may degenerate any moment into crisis,...
Nigeria’s decade-long war with terrorists in the Northeast is fraught with lots of controversies, but the most contentious of them is what to do with those the government has described has repentant Boko Haram members, writes the West African Pilot News correspondent Adeola Oladipupo. There are three known deradicalisation programmes in Nigeria. The programme in Kuje Prison was set up for fighters convicted of violent extremist offences, or inmates awaiting trial; the Neem Foundation owns...
The former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has vowed to jail former President Olusegun Obasanjo if he becomes President. The brickbat between the former leaders began when Obasanjo in a condolence letter to the Ogun State government over the death of Senator Buruji Kashamu, said that the late Senator evaded justice on alleged criminal offence by manoeuvering law and politics. In a swift reply, Fayose said that Nigerians will watch out for the end...
Bua Group on Monday donated three ambulances to Delta Government to support the fight against the dreaded Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa, who received the donation in Asaba thanked the group and called for collective effort to check the spread of the virus. He said that defeating COVID-19 would not be an impossible task if all Nigerians obeyed set health protocols with commitment. He added that “it is important that we work together to...
As residents sleep with two eyes opened, gunmen were reported to have on Sunday night, kidnapped three girls during an attack on the Saulawa community of Kurfi Local government area of Katsina state. Reports say that the terror groups mounted various checking points at the heart of the local government began shooting sporadically and forced themselves into some households and shops. Local and security sources confirmed that the groups kidnapped the girls and later left...
Mr. Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra State and Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 elections, has revealed that he was moved to pay off the accumulated pension and gratuity debt totaling N35 billion, which his administration inherited from previous governments, because of the plight of the mostly elderly citizens who have been denied their earned benefits. The former governor who’s a business mogul and pundit made the revelation...
Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted thunderstorms and cloudiness from Monday to Wednesday across the country. NiMet`s weather outlook released on Sunday in Abuja predicted cloudy skies over northern region on Monday morning with chances of isolated thunderstorms over parts of Jigawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Kano, Katsina, Sokoto and Kebbi. According to the Agency, there are prospects of few thunderstorms over parts of Borno and Yobe during the afternoon and evening period. “The central region should...
“The reality of acquiring political power is that those who seek it must go for it,” ―Ebuka Onyekwelu The support for Igbo Presidency recently received what can be described as a partial political boost when Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El Rufai in an interview, said that he had no ambition to vie for president after Buhari and that he taught power should not return to the north but instead go to South. While this may...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday met behind closed doors with the six governors of the North East Zone and security chiefs at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting was also attended by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha. The National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Maj-Gen. Babagana Monguno, and the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof....
