The UK government says it will not grant asylum to persons who have been involved with IPOB, MASSOB or any other violent ‘Biafran’ group. “Persons who commit human rights violations must not be granted asylum,” the UK government said in Read more…
Month: May 2022
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has obtained the nomination and expression of interest forms of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to contest the 2023 presidential poll. Emefiele paid N100million for the nomination and expression of Read more…
President Muhammadu Buhari and South-East leaders, on Friday, sharply disagreed over the fate of the detained leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The South-East Leaders had appealed to Buhari to release Kanu from detention during an interface Read more…
The Supreme Court, on Friday, resolved the ownership dispute over 17 oil wells in favour of Rivers State. In the judgment prepared by Heleen Ogunwumiju but delivered by Emmanuel Agim, the court dismissed the counter-claim ownership put forward by the Imo Read more…
Ukraine’s ambassador to Berlin, Andrey Melnik, has refused to apologize to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for comparing him to an “offended liverwurst” over his reluctance to visit Kiev. The abrasive Melnik’s comments follow a phone call on Thursday between President Volodomyr Zelensky and Read more…
France refused to tell Britain how to stop Exocet missiles during the Falklands war because it did not want to hand “the keys to the safe” to a rival in the arms trade, a former French defence official has admitted. Pierre Razoux Read more…
By Ifeoma Ejiofor The cutting-edge All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) aspirant for Anambra Central Senatorial seat, Uzuegbuna Okagbue on Wednesday paid a consultative visit to all ward and local government APGA executive members in Awka South local government. APGA executive Read more…
There was a time when Justice Samuel Alito, author of the leaked draft opinion on abortion that rocked the nation Monday night, was Chief Justice John Roberts’ closest ally on the Supreme Court. The two men are both products of Read more…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday commenced a two-day working visit to Ebonyi State with the inauguration of projects at King David University of Medical Sciences, Uburu. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president’s aircraft landed at Akanu Read more…
Against speculations of caving in to pressure from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria’s electoral umpire, INEC, says it will not extend the deadline set for political parties’ primary elections. In its timetable and schedule of activities released in February Read more…
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Thursday, called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to release the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and all Igbo youths in detention over the agitation for Read more…
The Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Soludo, has lamented the state of affairs in Onitsha, a notable commercial city in the state, saying that it is “dead”. Soludo made this known after his visit to the commercial hub of the Read more…