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CORRECTION TO BUHARI, BIAFRANS ARE MERELY DEFENDING THEIR LIVES FROM THE BRUTALITY OF NIGERIA, MASSACRE AND GENOCIDE. Let me officially respond to the reckless comment of Lt. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari on Biafra and the civil war. 1. First let see the comment, "the Nigerian army was soft on Biafra during the civil war". There have been many reactions and spontaneous reactions over this comment since it was made. No one has welcomed the statement or has defended it. The statement exposed the recklessness of our president, his dark mind and deep-seated hate for the Biafrans. 2. The worst thing to victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing is denial of the act. Throughout history, denial of the acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing have always provoked spontaneous reactions like street protests, riots and violent demonstrations. This is because to deny the fact of genocide is equivalent to the actual act. It reopens the pains of tragic history and recreates the animosi

JUSTICE AT LAST, SUPREME COURT ORDERS GTBank TO PAY INNOSON'S N14Billion Judgment Debt Into An Interest Yielding Account Today, 7th of June 2018, The Supreme Court struck out GTBank’s motion for stay of execution of the Enugu Court of Appeal Division’s order that GTBank pays over N6 Billion into an interest yielding account at the Court of Appeal. Innoson’s legal team which was led by Prof McCarthy Mbadugha ESQ told the Supreme Court that the Judgment debt which arose from excess and unlawful cha rges which GTB took from Innoson’s account now stood at over N14billion. The Supreme Court decision follows GTBanks motion for stay of execution at the Supreme Court when the Court of Appeal Enugu Division ruled on 9th Dec, 2014 that the appellant (GTB) is hereby ordered to pay the sum of Five Billion, Nine Hundred and thirty Six Million, One Hundred and Twenty Six Thousand, Two Hundred and Nineteen Naira, One Kobo (N5,936,126,219.01k) to the Deputy Chief Register of the Court with

The Abia State House of Assembly has passed into law the bill to control nomadic cattle rearing and prohibition of grazing routes in the state, sponsored by Rt. Honorable Martins Azubuike, member representing Isiala Ngwa North state constituency. Speaking to journalists after the passage of the bill, the Speaker, Rt. Honorable Chikwendu Kalu said the anti-grazing law was necessary to checkmate the worrisome activities of herdsmen who he said have been a major threat to lives, property and peace of the land. The speaker added that the, “law stipulates that every cattle entering into tbe state must be registered at the entry point to the state and must be conveyed in a vehicle, failure of which would attract seizure of the cattle and severe sanctions.” He also  noted that the law stipulates strict sanctions for defaulters, charging those saddled with the responsibility of implementing it to be up and doing.

The award  of Nigeria’s highest national honour to late Moshood Abiola  is illegal, a former Chief Justice of Nigeria has told PREMIUM TIMES. President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday evening named Mr Abiola, winner of 1993 presidential election that was annulled by former dictator Ibrahim Babangida, a holder of the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic, GCFR, 20 years after his death in 1998. Alfa Belgore, CJN from 2006-2007, said the national honours cannot be awarded posthumously, much less the GCFR, which is the highest honour in the land. “It is not done,” Mr Belgore told PREMIUM TIMES by telephone Wednesday night. “It is for people living.” “The only thing they could do is to name a place after him, but national honours award, no,” he added. Mr Belgore, chairman of the 2016 national honours committee, also said he “was not consulted” by the Buhari administration before the decision was taken. Mr Belgore said under the 1963 National Honours Act, only soldiers or oth

Former Minister of Defence and respected business mogul, General TY Danjuma (Rtd) has taken his protest against killings in the North Central region of Nigeria to the United States of America. Speaking at a session hosted by the International Committee on Nigeria (ICON), in collaboration with Heritage Foundation and 21 Wilberforce, he said the issue of extremism among some Fulani people has led to horrific attacks on villages that echo Boko-Haram tactics. General Danjuma who was at the event with Taraba State Governor, Daruis Ishaku discussed implications of Nigeria’s escalating religious and ethnic violence. Representatives from the U.S. government and prominent NGOs also joined the discussion. According to Danjuma “Evidence is there that President Buhari has failed. Corruption continues and ineffective governance does not confront attacks on villages.” “If chaos continues in Nigeria, refugees will flood over West Africa, then Europe and eventually America – whether you bui

I nternational Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety, yesterday, said that the Nigerian Army massacred 150 pro Biafra activists and hurriedly declared them terrorists to cover their alleged extrajudicial killings and used Operation Python Dance II, as a cover to escape accountability. Intersociety in a statement signed by its board chairman, Comrade Emeka Umeagbalasi, and head, Civil  Liberties and Rule of Law Programme, Obianuju Joy Igboeli, entitled: “How Nigerian Army massacred 150 pro-Biafra activists and hurriedly declared them terrorists using Operation Python Dance II as cover to escape accountability,” also said that the combined authorities of the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Air Force are responsible for killing no fewer than 456 defenceless and unarmed citizens of Nigeria in 2017 alone. The group further said the “Nigerian Army is also responsible for killing between December 12 and 14, 2015, no fewer than 1000 members of Islamic Movement in

Femi Fani-Kayode “ I f you thought oil was discovered in Nigeria in 1959, you could pass your high school economics with that information. It was, however, actually discovered 50 years earlier. Did you know that oil from the territory was sold for almost 50 years before the approach of Independence in 1960 forced the disclosure of Oloibiri by Britain? Even at that, the quantities were concealed from the newly Independent Nigerian governments, until the counter coup of July 1966, when the North packed their baggage to head back North in the famous ARABA putsch. The then British High Commissioner to Nigeria, of course on the promptings and direction of his home government, zoomed in upon Gowon halfway and prevailed on him to reverse the decision of moving the North out of Nigeria, at a time Gowon already hoisted the Arewa flag in a temporary capital city, Ilorin . In the hurry to announce this reversal, the Gowon’s speech that was originally designed to take out the North, was

Gusau – Barely one week after the killing of 26 people in a community in Zamfara, Fulani Herdsmen again hit another village in the state, killing 15 people. The Public Relations Officer of the Zamfara State Police Command, DSP. Muhammad Shehu, on Saturday in Gusau said that they killed the people in a village called Zakuna. He said the village is in the Anka Local Government Area of Zamfara in Nigeria’s northwest. Zamfara State has seen repeated attacks in recent times that have left scores dead and added to the agony of unending attacks that have been blamed largely on the jihadist group, Fulani Herdsmen and Boko Haram which has waged a deadly insurgency on Nigerians of non Fulani since 2009 in a bid to enthrone a strict Islamic code in the north and Nigeria at large Shehu said that they invaded Zakuna in the early hours of June 1 and rustled cows belonging to villagers, and a vigilant group known as Yansakai took on the rustlers, forcing them to flee only for them to reinforce and