Beyond the Headlines
Chairman, Senate Committee on the Environment and Member of the Paris-based Climate Parliament, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has said the proposed Green Grid remains Nigeria’s greatest takeaway from the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26. He said the country stood to benefit immensely from the energy superhighway. Ekweremadu, according to a statement by his media aide, […]
The Coalition for Human Rights Development (CfHD) has appealed to the Federal Government and the international community to ensure the release of the international passports of Shi’ites leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenah. The civil society group also pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari, the United States of America, Canada and the United Kingdom […]
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has advised all the candidates in the concluded Anambra State Governorship election to accept the outcome of the polls. Recall that Prof. Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, was declared winner of the election after the supplementary election was conducted in Ihiala Local Government Area on […]
The trail of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has been adjourned to January 19, 2022. Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, made the ruling on Wednesday, when the trial continued. The IPOB leader was brought into the court premises by operatives of the Department […]
Not less than a thousand prisoners have reportedly escaped from the Abolongo prison in Oyo town after some gunmen attacked the correctional centre and freed all inmates. According to TVC News, the gunmen arrived in their numbers around 11pm Tuesday night and started shooting sporadically, and released the inmates who fled to their various destinations. […]
He was neither born with a silver spoon nor did he descend from blue blood, but he broke the jinx of poverty. From his rustic village of Isuofia in Aguata LGA of Anambra state, he rose and flew across the world to live his dreams. Today, another new dream is fulfilled. The curtain has been […]
The Anambra State Governor-elect, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA has dedicated his victory at the just concluded gubernatorial election in the state to the three policemen who were gunned down during a town hall meeting in his hometown. Soludo escaped death on March, 31st, 2021, when unknown gunmen stormed […]
Security operatives on Wednesday prevented Maxwell Opara, one of the lawyers of detained leader of the proscribed separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, from entering the Federal High Court in Abuja, the Punch reports. Also barred from the courtroom include journalists, Igbo traditional leaders, as well as observers and activists. But other […]
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has for some time now become a government of its own in the South East region of the country. The group, which claims to be fighting for the rights of the Igbo of the region, has constituted itself into a law, ordering the people […]
Prof Chukwuma Soludo has been declared governor-elect of Anambra State. Professor Comfort Obi, Returning Officer of the election, made the declaration at exactly 1;30am on Wednesday. She said Soludo, candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra election, polled a total of 112,229 votes in the election followed by Mr Valentine Ozigbo of […]
