The Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai has added a fresh twist to the silence between him and the former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. At a Webinar in commemoration of the 63rd birthday of the Minister of Interior and former Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, El-Rufai says Aregbesola remains his man anytime any day but that Tinubu is not his man. According to Malam El-Rufai, this is due to...
The ongoing coordinated and targeted artillery and air interdiction on ISWAP / Boko Haram enclave in the recesses of the Lake Chad Basin by the MNJTF, in conjunction with national operations in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria, as well as strategic partners, have continued to yield positive outcomes in the war against terrorism in the Lake Chad area. In a statement, Colonel Timothy Antigha Chief of Military Public Information -MNJTF N’Djamena – Chad confirmed that...
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Saturday said its members would proceed on total and indefinite strike if the Federal Government failed to address their demands within 14 days. The Association stated this in a communique issued at the end of its virtual 40th Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) and Scientific Conference. The communique signed by NARD National President, Dr Sokomba Aliyu and Publicity Secretary, Dr Egbogu Stanley was made available to the News...
The Familheey mobile platform Launches Innovative ‘Request’ Feature to Help Families and Communities Secure Aid and Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic In a first of its kind initiative, the Familheey mobile app’s innovative ‘Request’ feature has begun to play a key role in helping families, groups and communities to secure aid and support during the current COVID-19 pandemic. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, while many health systems across the world are struggling to...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured Nigerians that the country’s democracy and electoral processes will not be affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The commission made it known that election will still go on as schedule irrespective of the fact that there is coronavirus pandemic in the country. It added that “while the Commission takes the COVID-19 pandemic seriously, our democracy and electoral process cannot be truncated for this reason, particularly because health authorities...
The Northern Governors Forum (NGF) has expressed sadness over the death of the former Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru. The Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Plateau, Simon Lalong, in a condolence message described his death as a big loss to the nation. Director of Press and Public Affairs to the governor, Dr. Makut Macham, issued the condolence message on Saturday in Jos. “The late Maikanti Baru...
Yet, here I am still standing, pledging allegiance to NIGERIA with all sense of patriotism—a nation still being governed by some of the leaders that masterminded the devastating genocide I survived 53 years ago. Evacuating a large family from the village, Achala, to remote farmland called Eziobibi, almost twenty miles away on foot, and through near inaccessible road-paths, and under severe weather conditions was not a joke. I was seven at the time, and I...
In the days following the stroke which would eventually take his life, one issue weighed heavily on Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s mind. That ‘issue’ was the immortalization of Bruce Mayrock, the 20 year old who set himself ablaze in front of the UN Building in New York on this day (29th Of May) in 1969 to draw attention to the plight of the Biafran people (a people whom he had never met, and whom he believed...
The night was dark-blue in the face with a pale-yellow eye; an occasional passing glow filters through a black smoke blanket covering like dusk light through the windowpanes of a dark room,— The curtains are drawn. Not a good day to have conversations with the night: it can barely see us; not even a good month to listen to its stories— A voice unsure about the sounds it speaks; not even a fond season for...
Many years ago, the General, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu spoke about the “Biafra of the mind.” Only a few, I think, understood him. Well, they say, only the deep speak to the deep. But let me attempt here to tease out Dim Ojukwu’s prescription: the greatest proof of Igbo survival and aspiration must be to model, wherever Onye-Igbo stands, the ethos of innovation, excellence, ingenuity, and ability that marked the Igbo endeavor in Biafra. We must...
