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Before They Set Nigeria Ablaze Again – Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, let me confess my sadness over the unfortunate, illogical and irrational bickering and grandstanding going on all over our dear beloved country at the moment. At the outset of my epistle today, let me confess my exceptional love for this country named Nigeria. Say what you will, Nigeria was created great despite the amalgamation of birds of different feathers. It was not for fun that our country was made the biggest black nation on planet earth. We are better and stronger as a bigger country than as tiny fragments that some people want us to become in their pipe dreams. I disagree vehemently with anyone who insists that the only solution to our myriad of problems, and the only way out of our forests of a thousand daemons, is to break up this gigantic entity called Nigeria. I say without any equivocation that they are wrong, very wrong! Our situation could be compared to the challenges of being in a marriage....

Nigeria Military Sentences Soldier To Death For Killing B’Haram [Terrorist] Suspect The Nigerian Military General Court Martial has sentenced a Lance Corporal, Hillary Joel, to death for killing a suspected Boko Haram terrorist in the Damboa in Borno State. The corporal and four others, Sergeant Samuel Balanga, Private Chima Samuel, Corporal Aliu Audu and Trooper Sunday Ogwuche, were convicted by the court, that sat in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, on Friday on offences related to the Boko Haram Terrorist insurgency. The President of the military court, Brig. -Gen. Olusegun Adeniyi, convicted Joel to death, and announced the reduction in rank to Private for Balanga and Audu, who were convicted for desertion and assault  accordingly. The Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, and 7 Division Spokesperson, Lt.Col. Kingsley Samuel, confirmed the said trial, said that the cases based on human rights violation and other operational offences on Lafiya Dole Operati...

Be At Alert And Prepare For The Worst - Femi Fani-Kayode Advice Biafrans Former Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode has advised Biafrans in the north to be at alert following a 3-month ultimatum given them to vacate the area by northern youths. This is never an accidental utterance by the Arewa Youths. Rather it is a highly premeditated and carefully planned position hatched by the Arewa elders at the background because of their complete jealousy and hatred to the Southerners. He reiterated that the northerners failed to embrace western education, rather they are still stuck in their 14th century Islamic traditions of producing as many children and sending them to the streets to be nuisance and beggars. “The Northern Elders Forum have backed the call by the Arewa Youths for Igbos to leave the north. We should brace ourselves and prepare for the worse," he wrote on his Twitter page. “We are about to enter a season of carnage, chaos and anomie. God deliver our people from thos...

Anti Igbo Threat By Northerners, Niger Delta militants demandreturn of oil blocs held by Northerners held by Northerners A coalition of Niger Delta militants is demanding from the Federal Government the return of all oil blocs controlled by Northerners to the people of the oil producing region. The demand is in retaliation for the order issued by Northern youth organizations to the Igbo in the north to quit the region by October 1. The Niger Delta Watchdogs, Niger Delta Volunteers, Niger Delta Peoples Fighters, Niger Delta Warriors, Bakassi Freedom Fighters, Niger Delta Movement for Justice, Niger Delta Fighters Network and Niger Delta Freedom Mandate,said in a joint statement yesterday that they also intend to declare an independent Niger Delta on October 1 with a view to freeing their people from what they called northern enslavement. The communiqué was signed by ‘General’ John Duku (Niger Delta Watchdogs and Convener: Coalition of Niger Delta Agitators), ‘General’ Ek...

Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), Behind The Quick Notice Given To Igbos By Coalition of Northern Youth Groups To Leave The North In Three Months The group made its position known despite widespread condemnation that followed the ultimatum earlier handed by the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum. The forum expressed “disappointment” with the Northern Governors’ Forum for disowning the youth groups. Mr. Ango Abdullahi, the NEF spokesperson, told journalists in Zaria on Friday that it was hypocritical for the Igbos to continue to live in other parts of the country while agitating for Nigeria’s break up. he said: “I am disappointed in the decision taken by Northern Governors’ Forum disowning and condemning the agitation by this young agile and progressive youth groups. “Let me ask these Northern governors, whom are they representing, are they representing spirits, ghost or people of the north? “Recently, people from eastern part of this country, specifically Igbo, were busy calling for th...

A pro-democracy and non-governmental organization, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has alleged that the group who  ordered Igbos to vacate the North in three months,  Coalition of Northern Youths, CNY, has the backing of some top officials from the Presidency. Disclosing this in a statement, the pro-democracy group claimed that the current “presidency is dominated mostly by known former officials of the AREWA CONSULTANTIVE ASSEMBLY whose youth wing made the threat” to force Igbo residing in the North out and to “confiscate their lawfully acquired housing/business assets.” In the statement jointly by the National coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National media Affairs Director Miss Zainab Yusuf, HURIWA alleged that “there are evidence of high powered backing” of these Northern Youth from the “top most echelons of the current presidency.” The group noted that the venue of the press conference which the threat was issued – bein...

Ex-Senate Leader Denies Supporting B’Haram As FG Insists A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday attended to the no-case submission filed by a former Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, seeking an order terminating his trial on terrorism charges preferred against him by the Federal Government. The former senate leader, through his no-case submission, is seeking an order discharging him of the charges, including the allegation of supporting Boko Haram, and failure to disclose material information arising from his alleged relationship with the sect. His no-case submission was anchored on the grounds that the prosecution had failed to lead evidence linking him to the alleged offences. The no-case submission was further anchored on section 303 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, among other provisions of the same law. While denying the charges on Tuesday, Ndume broke the silence on how he came in contact with the sect and how he disclosed the necessary information ab...