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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has told South-East leaders that the court will determine the fate of the Indigenous People of Biafra’s leader, Nnamdi Kanu. He stated this during a meeting with leaders from the region at the New Government House in Abakaliki, capital of the State. The Igbo leaders had pleaded with Buhari to release Kanu and Igbo other youths in detention across the country. The Igbo leaders made the plea in an address during a meeting with Buhari at the Executive Council Chambers, New Government House Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi State. Chairman of South-East Traditional Rulers…

The Government of the United Kingdom(UK) has made a u-turn on its treatment of members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), recognising Nigeria’s classification of the group as a terrorist organisation. According to the The Cable, in a May 2022 update of its asylum policy,  the UK government excluded members of the group from seeking refuge in England. TheCable had reported in April 2021 that the UK was planning to grant asylum to persecuted members of the separatist group, as part of its refugee policy published at the time. The policy, at the time, was for asylum to be granted…

Carlo Ancelotti said the “history of the club” helped his Real Madrid side stage another Champions League comeback to down Manchester City on Wednesday and reach the final. The 13-time European champions trailed 1-0 on the night and 5-3 on aggregate in the last-four tie entering the 90th minute, but Rodrygo scored a late double and Karim Benzema’s extra-time penalty sent them through. Real had also come from behind to beat Paris Saint-Germain in the last 16 and Chelsea in the quarter-finals. “I cannot say we are used to living this kind if life, but what happened tonight it happened…

Abimbola Adelakun The news that actor Yul Edochie took a second wife rebooted discussions about polygamy. Typical of our clime, issues bordering on long complex history too quickly descended into superficial exchanges and self-serving arguments. It gets worse when the interventions are headlined by a self-labelled “deep thinker” whose grasp of any issue hardly goes beyond his gut instincts. A successful debate about polygamy in contemporary culture must do away with the perfidious assumptions of the exceptionalism of the African male’s sexual needs and the faulty conclusion that polygamy solves the problem of adultery by satiating male desires. African…

EVEN in its twilight, the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), continues to be a relentless disappointment. First elected on the promise to change and then take the country to the next level, this regime has only changed and moved Nigeria retrogressively in the economy, security and corruption that it promised to tackle. These facts are evident to anyone who does not live in a fool’s paradise, even though government agents try to colour the truth. We hear about the progress they said they have made in infrastructure. Still, it is a shame that anyone elected to…

•Wants attackers of Global Body’s Building in 2011 Prosecuted United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the intergovernmental organisation remains steadfast in its commitment to a peaceful Nigeria. Guterres stated this yesterday in Abuja during a two-day visit to the country. Guterres called for the prosecution of those that attacked the UN House in Abuja on August 26, 2011, stressing that perpetrators of terrorism in Nigeria must be held to account. He said the international body dedicated to maintaining global peace and security was adopting a victim-centred approach to the fight against terrorism in the country. Guterres, who also paid…

• Guterres lays wreath for 2011 UN bomb blast victims • UN to support reintegration of 50,000 repentant terrorists in Borno • Your trip a charade without visiting theatres of criminality in Northwest, Akintoye tells Guterres • 60,000 killed in Northern Nigeria due to insecurity, says CDD President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Abuja, said Nigeria remains grateful to the United Nations (UN) and some world leaders for their steadfast partnership in fighting terrorism, adding that the spotlight on Russia and Ukraine could easily distract from other pertinent global challenges. President Buhari, who received the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, at the…

Ekiti State governor Kayode Fayemi on Wednesday declared his intention to run for the office of Nigeria president on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Fayemi made the declaration at the Hilton Hotel, Abuja in the company of his wife Erelu Bisi Fayemi, APC Governorship aspirant, Biodun Oyebanji, members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, and traditional rulers. “After a careful consideration of where we are as a nation, I believe that my entry into the race will offer Nigerians the opportunity to examine competing visions for national rebirth,” Fayemi said. “I am a full-blooded child of…

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured families of those kidnapped by bandits in the ill-fated Abuja-Kaduna train service of March 28 that efforts were ongoing to ensure their safe return. The president gave the assurance on Monday in Abuja when he hosted residents of the FCT who paid him Sallah homage. He directed security agencies and the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) to provide detailed information to families of the victims regularly saying the government would explore every opportunity to secure their return alive and unhurt. “As we celebrate this occasion with joy amidst friends and family members, we are fully conscious…

Heavily armed Al-Shabaab jihadist fighters on Tuesday attacked a military base in Somalia where African Union peacekeepers are stationed, causing casualties, a local military commander and witnesses said. The pre-dawn raid targeted a camp housing Burundian troops near Ceel Baraf village about 160 kilometres (100 miles) northeast of the capital Mogadishu, the sources said. “The terrorists attacked the Burundian army base outside Ceel Baraf early this morning, there was heavy fighting and casualties inflicted on both sides, but we don’t have more details about this incident so far,” local military commander Mohamed Ali told told AFP by phone. “They launched…