•Retired Warrant Officer Monday Ranse A veteran of the war, who was with the 63 NA, and served with the 3 Marine Commando, retired Warrant Officer Monday Ranse, a Biafran veteran, has narrated his experience about Biafran war, saying war is not something anyone should pray for, reports Daily Trust. Excerpts: What do you make […]
•Dangote Refinery When Dangote Refinery, early this year, rolled out its diesel and supplied marketers at a substantially reduced price of N1,200, Nigerians chanted, “Bravo to Dangote”. This was because the N1,200 price represented about 30% reduction from the previous market price of N1,600. The refinery thereafter announced a fur...
•Wizkid and Davido The celebrity feud between music icons Davido and Wizkid has degenerated into an unhealthy squabble such that fans are demanding it ends now. In as much as they agree that there could be disagreements between celebrities, they believe the duo’s fight is not good for the music industry, reports Saturday Vanguard. After [&hell...
•IPOB The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has advised the leadership of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo led by Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu to shirk its purported visit to Sokoto State to apologise to the Northerners on the alleged involvement of Igbo military officers that led to the 1966 coup . Spokesman of the group, Emma Powerful who […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Labour Party (LP), today locked horns over the forthcoming national convention of the party being planned by the Julius Abure-led National Working Committee and scheduled to hold by or before end of March. While the NLC said it was not informed about the plan to hold the national […]
•House of Reps The House of Representatives has passed for second reading, a bill to include Anambra State in the newly constituted Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Board. The bill titled “A Bill for an Act to Amend the Niger Delta Development Commission Act, Cap N86, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 to Provide […]
•Soludo In what looked like declaration of war against the media by the Anambra State Government, officials of the state government have destroyed newspapers and beat up vendors in Awka. The attackers who were officials of the Awka Capital Territory Development Authority (ACTDA) disclosed that the state government does not want any Newspaper t...
•Tinubu Prominent groups in the Northern states are currently at loggerheads over certain policies of the Bola Tinubu administration seen by some as anti-North. The latest of such policies is the recent move by President Bola Tinubu to relocate some departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to Lagos from Abuja, the Federal Capital. [&he...
•Abass, Agbese and Ochefu For Vice Chancellors of public universities in Nigeria, one of the major hurdles they grapple with is having to shuttle between their institutions and the nation’s capital on a weekly or biweekly basis to answer questions from politicians in the National Assembly. This is even as the National Assembly has halted [&hel...
•Uwazurike The leader of the Movement for Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has accused the Archbishop of Owerri Archdiocese, Archbishop Lucious Iwejuru Ugorji, of using the instrument of state to forcibly take over his property at No 26, Housing Area G, New Owerri. He said the landed property on whic...

