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Fire has gutted a small section of the Federal Secretariat in Abuja  The complex houses major government offices in in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory. Eyewitnesses said the fire started on the sixth floor of the building and is believed to have affected the seventh and eighth floors. Most of the damaged area is reported to be occupied by the Federal Ministry of Education. A spokesperson for the Federal Fire Service said the agency received an alert 30 minutes after the fire started and its men were able to stop the inferno from spreading to adjourning buildings. No casualty was recorded in the fire the cause of which is not yet known.

IPOB disowns Ohanaeze! They are unelected old men with red caps! not mandated by the people to speak on our behalf. Recall that the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, yesterday declared that election will hold in Anambra state come 08 November 2017. In a direct reference to the call by the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu,  to boycott the forthcoming election, the Leader of the apex Igbo organisation said "Whereas Ohaneze understands the marginalization and unfair treatment of Igbos which have given rise to self-determination movements in Igboland, leaders of these movements must not arrogate to themselves the supreme leadership of Igbo land." Nwodo made the statement while addressing members of the Anambra State House of Assembly, in Awka, Anambra State on Thursday.

The European Union (EU) ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Michel Arrion says EU cannot promise further financial assistance to Nigeria. Arrion made this known at a lecture which the IBB Golf Club organised in Abuja. The lecture had as its theme: ‘40 years of European Union in Nigeria: Lessons learned and the way forward’. Arrion said Nigeria remains EU key partner in view of the role it plays in global affairs. The envoy added that the union would scale up its efforts towards the country’s institutional, political and economic development for a more prosperous future. He said Nigeria could not be said to be poor, as it has enough resources to meet its developmental needs. Arrion called for a more equitable distribution of the nation’s wealth to ensure growth and stability and unleash its enormous economic potentials. He explained that the combine aides to the country were about ten percent of its country’s annual budget. According to him, the official development ass

As the debate on national question continues, a coalition of Igbo professionals in Nigeria and the Diaspora under the aegis of Igbo Ekunie Initiative, has called on the Federal Government to organise a referendum to determine the continuity of the country as a united entity. In a letter addressed to the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, which was also a reaction to the previous letter written by the Arewa youth to the acting president, the Igbo group urged the presidency to, as a matter of urgency, pass a motion that will allow all sections of the nation campaign for, and hold a referendum to freely determine if they want to remain in Nigeria or not. In the letter, president of the group, Tochukwu Ezeoke, noted that the motion would serve as a final, peaceful and civilized settlement of the ever-increasing contradictions and bloodletting that has long plagued the nation. While the tone of the letter commended the Acting President for his statesmanship approach t

Sen. Walid Jibrin, The National Chairman, Board of Trustees(BOT) among others on Wednesday said that Biafra would be realized only by referendum and not quit notice. While speaking with newsmen in Nasarawa, Nasarawa State, Jibril made it known that he would not support any group to bring division in the country but If Igbo’s want their own country, “So be it!” “Peace and unity were the necessary requirements for the development of any nation” he continued. He further cautioned the Arewa group as well as others to stay out of crisis and called on Nigerians to see themselves as one. Following the quest for igbos independence he cited Britain to have conducted referendum on European Union membership, saying that due process was  followed before independence was granted to the group. On the same scene, he encourages the Igbos to follow suit. In his words he said “if truly the Igbos want their country, it is only referendum that will grant that independence. Everybody has h

Briggs said making such move at this time in the life of the nation was too late. Prominent resource control crusader, Ankko Briggs, has backed down on her call for the restructuring of the country. She rather called for the parting of ways by the different sections of the country. In a position made known on Wednesday amid the call for restructuring by several prominent individuals and groups, Briggs said the restructuring of the country should have been long done before the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan or the National Conference held in 2014. She said at the time, nobody understood why she stood on the side of restructuring the country. Now Briggs said that call is coming too late. She said what will work for the country at this time is for the different regions to go their separate ways. Briggs said: “Going by the figures, the North is getting over 60 per cent of the total local government allocations and even when we come to the states as well they al

In an Open Letter dated June 21, 2017, Prof. Ijomah, the 80-year-old renowned Professor of Political Sociology, author, scholar, academician, and institutional administrator, used facts and figures to demolish claims recently made by the controversial Prof. Abdullahi while defending the quit notice served Igbos living in the North by Arewa youth leaders. Prof. Ijomah wrote thus: OPEN LETTER TO PROF. ANGO ABDULAHI Prof. Ango Abdullahi, OUR attention has been drawn to your statements in Vanguard of Saturday, June 10, 2017. You are alleged to be in support of the call on the Igbo to quit. It is unfortunate, grossly unfortunate, that a scholar of your calibre will be so partisan as to be unable to see the wisdom in retaining Nigeria as a corporate entity. I know you have, in the past, been anti-Igbo. One would have thought that our education exposes us to a level where we can live even with our enemies. You said in the alleged publication that, “each year up to the time Nigeri

Yoruba Assembly Writes Osinbajo; Demands Referendum The Yoruba Assembly, an umbrella platform for all socio-political groups in the South-west, yesterday asked the federal government to consider referendum to enable nationalities constituting Nigeria decide if they still want to remain together. Currently led by Gen. Alani Akinrinade (rtd), the assembly faulted the claim by the Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF) that some political usurpers “are hiding under the guise of the legitimate agitation for restructuring and self-determination to destabilise the polity is totally untenable.” These positions were expressed in a communiqué the assembly formally released yesterday after a consultative meeting it held in Lagos last Saturday, thereby calling for development-oriented governance structure for Nigeria and rejecting all attempts to sustain the 1999 Constitution. The assembly comprises the Afenifere Renewal Group, O’dua Liberation Movement, Yoruba Council of Youth, Coal

The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has called on former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida, to keep shut, because he lacks the morals to talk about restructuring. The group blamed Babangida and the Military, for allegedly throwing the nation into its current state, which has led to the subsequent rise of agitation for restructuring. Speaking to Leadership Newspaper in an exclusive telephone interview, the Spokesman of NEF, Ango Abudllahi, argued that Babangida and the Military in general, are responsible for factors that gave rise to current agitation for restructuring. The attack came on the heels of Babangida’s Sallah message, in Minna, the Niger State capital, on Monday, where he called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to restructure the country immediately, in order to end the current flames of agitations across the federation.

The plane was impounded on Saturday, at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport and was reportedly heading to Ndjamena, the capital of Chad from Bangui in the Central African Republic. s ecurity officials in Nigeria have seized a Russian cargo plane which was found to be filled with arms and ammunition. The plane was impounded on Saturday, December 6, at the  Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport and was reportedly heading to  Ndjamena , the capital of Chad from  Bangui  in the Central African Republic. The plane, with 7 crew members onboard, stopped to refuel and upon inspection by security agents on ground, it was discovered to be carrying various weapons of war, helicopter parts and 2 Sports Utility Vehicles (SUV) The seizure of the plane has been confirmed by the General Manager of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN),  Yakubu Datti  and investigations are currently ongoing into the incident.

As the next half of the anti-corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration begins, the relationship between the presidency and the judiciary appears soured by heated exchanges following the recall of six judges accused of corruption. The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, had at several fora pledged the cooperation of the judiciary to the Federal Government’s anti-corruption campaign by reforming the judiciary for better service delivery. However, the latest faceoff has been stirred by the recall of six of the eight judges accused of corruption following the raid on’ residence of some judges by the Department of State Services (DSS). Many believe that the situation may have affected the level of confidence between the two arms of government. The NJC had at its 82nd meeting on June 1 recalled Justice John Inyang Okoro of the Supreme Court; Justice Uwani Abba Aji of the Court of Appeal; Justices Adeniyi Ademola, Hydiazira Nganjiwa and Musa K

Edited by Livingrich Ezeikpe "Go and tell them that Biafra is coming and no man or woman can stop the restoration of Biafra, no amount of bribery can stop the restoration of Biafra" said Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on the occasion of the visit of both the riverine communities of Biafra land and the IPOB media team on the 22nd day of June 2017. The Indigenous people of Biafra family from Yenagoa , Bayelsa state who visited their leader Mazi Nnamdi kanu made history on that day with their gifts signifying many qualities of the director of the popular Radio Biafra. It is important to note that the name Niger delta and south south were given to Biafrans in the riverine areas like Igweocha (Portharcourt) Bayelsa, cross river states and beyond. These names were given to them during the regime of former president Olusegun Obasanjo under divide and rule tactics of Nigeria. The idea was to create enemity between the Biafrans from the up land and their cousins from the riverine areas. An elderl

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has stated that the voice message purportedly from President Muhammadu Buhari is “fake and a scam”. He said this in reaction to the recording aired on Sunday by some radio stations, including the BBC. The presidency had  released the audio  to debunk reports that Buhari is suffering from speech impairment. But the former presidential spokesman accused Buhari’s handlers of taking Nigerians for a ride. “Like I wrote in my latest essay published on your website, Nigeria is not a free nation. “The essay asked some fundamental questions and the the truth is that Hausa/Fulani control this country. “Every body knows the recording is not the president’s voice. We are firmly in the grip of dictatorship “They are on top of the pyramid, the rest of us are slaves. God forbid that Nigeria continue like this, we must free ourselves.” Fani-Kayode added that the “strategy gone wrong” voice message was the same handlers of late Presiden