Apprehension on Thursday enveloped Asaba and lllah community, Oshimili South and North Local Government Area of Delta State as a helicopter hovered around the area, bombing suspected settlements of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB. The helicopter which conveyed a combined team of Airforce, police, Army, and Navy, the Vanguard gathered was combing the area for […]
Nyesom Wike has squashed insinuations that he will join the Progressives Congress (APC), taking a swipe at governors who defected to the ruling party. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has in recent months witnessed a wave of defections, raising concerns about the party’s viability. Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State moved to the APC this […]
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), says the re arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu will not stop the agitation of Biafra The group, led by Uchenna Madu, condemned the re arrest of the IPOB leader and warned the federal government to […]
Party members, staff and visitors to National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday evening scampered for safety when alarm of the building sounded, indicating an emergency situation. Pandemonium took over the entire four-storey edifice as people took to their heels. Workers and occupiers of the building were called out of the offices, […]
The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and his Government over alleged role in abduction of its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and subsequent ‘smuggling’ into Nigeria by security agents. The group threatened to sue Kenyatta and his ‘partners in crime’ to the International Criminal Court, ICC. In a […]
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has said troops of Operation HADIN KAI killed 73 Boko Haram Terrorists and rescued 55 victims in Borno State. The acting director, Defence Media Operations, Brig-Gen Benard Onyeuko, disclosed this during an update of the military operations across the country between June 18-30, 2021. He said the operations yielded attendant successes […]
Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, has suspended the Yoruba Nation rally which was scheduled to hold in Lagos on Saturday. Recall that Yoruba Nation agitators had held rallies in different parts of South-West with that of Lagos scheduled for Saturday. However, Igboho who spoke to BBC News Pidgin, stated that the rally […]
The senate has finally passed the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) — but not without fierce arguments. The bill has been in the works since the tenure of former President Olusegun Obasanjo who led Nigeria between 1999 and 2007 but successive sessions of the national assembly failed to pass it. But the PIB passed third reading […]
Operatives of the Department of State Services carried out a midnight attack on the residence of Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, in the Soka area of Ibadan, Oyo State, The PUNCH has learnt. A top security source, who pleaded anonymity because he wasn’t authorised to speak on the matter, told […]
Fiery Catholic priest and founder of Adoration Ministry Enugu, Nigeria, Rev. Fr Ejike Mbaka, has blamed unnamed Governors for re-arrest of detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The cleric did not mention any Governor or directly mention Kanu throughout the message, during his popular Wednesday weekly ministration titled: ‘E no […]
