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Senate president Bukola Saraki declared running for president on the coming 2019 general elections  He declared on thursday while delivering a keynote address at a youth and young aspirants dialogue in Abuja. Saraki listed several challenges he believe that clogged the wheels of the nations progress as  extreme poverty, hunger, lack of education and mass unemployment paved way for crime and insecurity in the nation, and now is the time to rebuild the  Nigeria  with new vibrant leadership. Also, he complained about the broken economy and the nation has now witnessed division along regional, religious and ethnic lines, a situation he believes should be addressed urgently in order for the nation to grow. With all these challenges i then decide to answer the call of the youths by agreeing to run for presidency on their behalf “Accordingly, I hereby announce my intention to run for the office of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the coming General Elections in 2019

Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has rejected calls for Nigeria’s restructuring, says that call for referendum by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), is the only way out. According to him, President Muhammadu Buhari made a mistake by charging the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, with treason. “I see every politician now says restructure but I disagree. I also think the acting President was wrong to say that Nigeria is insoluble. “There is nothing sacrosanct about Nigeria. It can blow up anytime. It’s an artificial creation, which was made in 1914 and when it was amalgamated we were not there. It was amalgamated in the interest of the colonialists,” Agbakoba said. Agbakoba said Nnamdi Kanu shouldn’t have been charged with treason. “For me, the best that he can be charged with is unlawful assembly and an act capable of breaching public peace. “Those are the things he can be charged with

INTERNATIONAL Society for Civil liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety, Monday alleged that no fewer than seven secret graveyards have been independently located in three states of Delta, Anambra and Abia. Chinonso Alozie Intersociety in a statement by its board chairman, Comrade Emeka Umeagbalasi Head, Civil Liberties and Rule of Law Obianuju Igboeli and Head, Democracy and Good Governance, Chinwe Umeche alleged that the graveyards arose because of the Federal Government’s military crackdown targeted at unarmed and defenseless pro Biafra activists. It said: “the location of the seven secret graveyards in Igboland are: Asaba Airport location /swamp; Onitsha military cantonment cemetery; Nkpor-Umuoji road environs; Umuahia forest/ Afara-Ukwu palace; Aba National High School; Aba-Port Harcourt Road borrow pits and other designated grave sites where hospitals mortuaries dispose unclaimed or ‘state property’ corpses and Ogwe-Ukwa West forest graveyard discovered in the first week of A