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Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state has said that his people do not take orders from the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). This, he said, accounted for the failure of IPOB’s recent stay-at-home order in Imo state. Speaking with newsmen Wednesday after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja, Uzodinma said it was only his government that can give order on when people can stay away from their work or businesses and they will obey. According to him, it is because people in the state do not obey IPOB’s order that normal activities have continued to flourish…

• Bandits contact NDA, demand N200m ransom for abducted Major – Source • Nigeria’s security on reverse gear, says Arewa leaders • Group demands immediate overhaul of security architecture • Nigerians have lost hope in Buhari, APC, says PDP Barely five days after the National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno (retd.), announced that the President’s security strategies were working owing to questionable surrender of Boko Haram terrorists to security forces, bloodthirsty gunmen, yesterday, attacked the nation’s foremost military university, the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna State, killing two military officers and kidnapping another. The unknown gunmen shot Lieutenant Commodore…

The perennial occurrence of gas flaring and oil spills in the Niger Delta region of the country has become very worrisome. The stories of suffering of the people of the Niger Delta as a result of gas flaring is pathetic and should have no place in modern oil exploitation. Over the years, various governments from the First Republic to the present have seemingly paid lip service to the resolution of this avoidable and recurring challenge in the region that lays the golden egg for the survival of the country’s economy. Invariably, the problem appears to have come to stay. The…

PDP, APC trade blame over vote-buying, thuggery Speaker, Imo State House of Assembly, Paul Emeziem, has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win the November 6, 2021 governorship election in Anambra State. Speaking to newsmen in Owerri, yesterday, the Speaker said the choice of Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo to head the party’s campaign in Anambra was a clear testament of the governor’s political sagacity and leadership dexterity. He said: “Uzodimma has continued to distinguish himself as an astute politician, who knows his onion as far as electoral processes are concerned and who has what it takes to achieve…

The US Department of Justice has agreed to hand FIFA $201 million (171m euros) confiscated from corrupt football administrators, the governing body of world football announced on Tuesday. Most of the cash comes from US legal actions in the wake of the “FIFAgate” scandal, which erupted in May 2015 with the dramatic arrest of seven world football executives in Zurich and led a few months later to the departure of Sepp Blatter, FIFA’s president since 1998. “This money was seized from the bank accounts of former officials who were involved in, and then prosecuted for, years of corruption schemes in…

Real Madrid has offered 160 million euros ($188 million) to Paris Saint-Germain for France World Cup winner Kylian Mbappe, French and Spanish media reported on Wednesday. According to outlets L’Equipe and Le Parisien the Ligue 1 club have rejected the proposal for 22-year-old Mbappe, whose contract at the Parc de Princes expires next June. PSG paid 180 million euros to Monaco for the forward in 2017 and are keen for him to sign a new deal. After the arrival of Lionel Messi in Paris earlier this month club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi said Mbappe “has no reason to do anything else”…

Super Eagles striker, Victor Osimhen, has been handed a two match-ban, following a red card offence he committed against Venezia in a Serie A game on Sunday. The Nigerian international was given a straight red card in the 23rd minute for shoving Daan Heymans, as Napoli played a corner into the box. Napoli had hoped that the striker would only miss the clash against Genoa this weekend, as they believed it was not violent conduct. However, Serie A disciplinary’s committee see the challenge, which led to his dismissal as violent conduct and has subsequently banned him for two games. It’s…

ADEYEMI ADEPETUN, in this report, writes that while the National Identification Number (NIN) is getting entrenched in the Nigerian system, its impact on security remains critical.   Identity management is very key to the economic success of countries, especially developing ones. Countries racing to catch up with developments are working ceaselessly to develop robust and responsible identity ecosystems for progress and humanitarian action. Such countries are buoyed by the need to establish identity-for-all, not just as a legal right, which is consistent with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16.9, but also as a practical necessity to enable inclusive access to services.…

Tunde Odesola His name outnumbers the 26 letters of the English alphabet. Arguably, the most creative hands to ever hold a chisel and a paintbrush, but unmistakably the sublime genius embodying the inventive force of the Renaissance Age. A sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni is the 38-letter name a little wizard was given at birth. But the world picked Michelangelo from the names and stuck it to his forehead. A year before he died at age 88, Michelangelo, an Italian, who lived between March 6, 1475 and February 18, 1564, wrote in Italian…

Tayo Oke The United States and its Western military allies had been involved in a 20-year war with the Taliban in Afghanistan, during which time they trained, equipped and established a new National Army numbering more than 300,000 soldiers, who had also become embroiled in the same war alongside hundreds of thousands of NATO troops. The West went into Afghanistan in 2001, determined to avenge the “9/11” attack on New York. The US, the UK, Canada, Australia, France etc deployed the most sophisticated weaponry at their disposal, including state-of-the-art communication gadgets against a barely literate improvised Taliban army, numbering…