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Latest information from Afaraukwu area of Umuahia, Abia State capital, has it that soldiers finally broke into the home of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), this evening (Thursday, September 14, 2017). “During the operation, they were alleged to have killed four persons and a dog, took away […]

On a day Nigeria’s military high command, the Defence Headquarters, declared the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) a ‘terrorist militant organisation‘, the South East Governors’ Forum added to IPOB woes by outrightly proscribing the pro-Biafra agitators saying IPOB’s activities were now unlawful in any part of the five South East states. Arising from its emergency […]Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari will pass through London, where he spent five months on medical leave this year, on his way home from the United Nations General Assembly, his spokesman said on Friday, September 15, 2017. Buhari will depart for New York on Sunday, his spokesman said in an emailed statement. It will be the first […]

Okezie Ikpeazu, the governor of Abia State, has extended the three-day dusk to dawn curfew he imposed on Aba to Friday, September, 15, 2017. Governor Ikpeazu, in a e-mailed statement to The Trent, by his chief press secretary, Enyinnaya Appolos, on Wednesday, September 13, 2017 dispelled rumours of arson and killings in the southeastern state. He […]

ometimes, I want to laugh at our people and say, it serves you right. Some other times, I just want to “siddon look” at Nigeria, apologies to our Cicero, the late Chief Bola Ige. And yet more often than not, my first instinct when they are complaining about the “strange” goings-on in government is to […]

The Police Command in Nasarawa State has arrested a 20-year-old housewife, Aisha Isah, for allegedly throwing into a well her two stepdaughters, Zainab 4, and Baaba 2, over disagreement with her co-wife. The Public Relations Officer of the command, Kennedy Idirisu, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday, September […]

The Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has urged the Nigerian Army to tread carefully in its present operation in Abia to avoid “a Boko Haram type of insurgency” in the South East region of the country. PANDEF made this known in a statement by its national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, in Abuja on Thursday, September 14, […]

The Plateau State Government on Friday, September 15, 2016 imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on Jos Metropolis following “rumoured skirmishes, tension and confusion” over the situation in South East. The government, in a statement signed by Emmanuel Nanle, director of press affairs, said that the action was to avert a further breakdown of law and order. […]

London’s Metropolitan Police are investigating a Tube incident which has shut down part of a busy London Underground line as terrorism on Friday, September 15, 2017. It’s not yet clear what caused the security alert, which occurred at about 8:20 a.m. local time (3:20 a.m. ET) at the height of rush hour on a busy […]Read More

It is an act of indiscretion for someone occupying the position a minister to make a statement supporting an aspirant even before 2018, the national publicity secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bolaji Abdullahi, has said. Malam Abdullahi stated this on Thursday, September 14, 2017 at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja while […]

n the 15th September 2016, one year ago today, I wrote the following. “You bathed in the blood of Biafrans, you crushed their bones and stripped away their dignity and self-respect just to keep Nigeria one. Now you say their children have no right to ask for self-determination simply because you killed their fathers and […]

Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters has branded the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, as a “militant terrorist organisation’’ and urged parents to dissuade their wards from joining the group. This pronouncement comes as tensions rise in the country over a military operation in the South East region of the country where the dominant tribe, the Igbos, have […]Read More