The proscribed terror group, IPOB, has announced its decision to enforce another two-week ‘sit at home’ exercise across the southeast in continuation of its protest of the arrest and detention of Nnamdi Kanu. The planned action was announced by Finland-based Simon Ekpa through a statement published on his official Twitter page. According to the statement, the movement and trade restriction will commence on Monday, July 31, through Monday, August 14. During this period, residents are to remain indoors while businesses operating in the region are expected to close shop, except on weekends. Ekpa threatened ‘consequences’ for non-compliance. The region is…
Author: Albus Dauda
Pastor Poju Oyemade of The Covenant Nation (TCN) has continued to endure online harassment and other forms of attacks from supporters of Peter Obi who remain upset that he refused to back the Labour Party presidential candidate in the last election. Unlike other Christian clerics who aided Obi’s political branding as the ‘Christian candidate’ in the presidential contest, Pastor Oyemade maintained an objective stance, with repeated urgings to the people to evaluate all major candidates on the basis of their track records and the practicality of their promises and ideas. His objective stance angered several supporters of Obi who felt…
In a Twitter thread published on Monday, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last election, Peter Obi, congratulated Miss Onyinye Omenugha for winning the Princess Diana Award, an honour reserved for outstanding young achievers in the UK and across the world. But Onyinye Omenugha was not the only Nigerian who bagged the award. At least 17 other Nigerians, including a student of the University of Ibadan, were equally selected as part of this year’s cohort of winners. Unlike the rest, however, Onyinye Omenughe has a distinct feature: she belongs to the Igbo ethnic group, the same as…
Budding Igbo campaigner, Noble Igwe, has faced mockery and criticism online over his unfounded criticism of the Federal Government for failing to provide a seaport in the southeast despite the region’s obvious lack of the most important element required for one to be built: a sea. The southeast is a landlocked region within Nigeria with a charged secessionist history. Although some leaders of the region lay claims to states and geographical areas in nearby South-South geopolitical zone, especially key areas that border the sea and are rich in oil resources, ethnic groups indigenous to the area have rejected such claims…
Residents in states across Nigeria’s Igbo-dominated eastern region are lamenting trade and movement restrictions expected to continue today, Monday, as secessionist group IPOB resumes its violently-enforced sit-at-home exercise. IPOB is a proscribed terror group protesting the arrest of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Currently under the leadership of Finland-based Simon Ekpa, the group has declared weeks-long sit-at-home in the region. It is enforcing the economically-damaging restriction through violent raids and patrols, including the invasion of schools and markets where they whip and shoot at women and children. Residents who initially sympathized with the group’s secessionist agenda, and have been faulted for…
A controversial, self-described activist, Aisha Yesufu, has come under criticism over her refusal to audit and provide an account of funds she claimed from donors during the 2023 presidential election. Like several other prominent supporters of Peter Obi of the Labour Party, Aisha Yesufu led a series of public donations at different points of the electoral season, urging Nigerians across the globe to aid the emergence of the third-placed candidate by contributing funds to the quest. Notwithstanding Obi’s limited chance of success given his relative lack of popularity in other regions of the country except his native southeast, many Nigerians…
Mmesoma Ejikeme has confessed to an eight-member panel set up by Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State that the JAMB result she paraded claiming she had a score of 362 in the 2023 UTME was forged. She made the confession while appearing before the panel, explaining that she completed the forgery before heading to a local cybercafe to print the inauthentic copy showing that she scored 362, instead of the original, JAMB-issued of 249. Headed by Nkemdili Nnonyelu, a professor, the committee confirmed Miss Mmesoma forged the score of 362 as earlier claimed by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.…
Recent events in the eastern part of Nigeria have prompted the revisit of the robust defence of the IPOB terrorist made by Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last election. During an interview with Seun Okinbaloye of Channels TV at the height of IPOB’s seditious challenge of the legitimacy of the Nigerian state, including through the establishment of a parallel military group armed with guns and other ammunitions, Peter Obi rebuked the Buhari-administration for labelling it a terror group. When queried by the journalist over the disagreement, Obi described IPOB as a peaceful organization comprised…
Obiageli Ezekwesili, a former Education Minister who enjoyed momentary national prominence with the Bring Back Our Girls campaign, has faced backlash over her refusal to speak against the terrorist activities of the proscribed Igbo secessionist group, IPOB, despite her loud and consistent commentary on happenings in other parts of the country. Madam Oby, as she is otherwise known, came under criticism after carefully opting to fix her gaze on a JAMB controversy in which a candidate was objectively shown to have paraded a forged result while ignoring the renewed killing rampage of IPOB across states in the eastern region, including…
The combined legal teams of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), only required two days to mount a robust defence of his victory and fitness to stand in the February presidential election at the Presidential Election Petition Court. Unwilling to accept defeat, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP and Peter Obi of the Labour Party teamed up as they did in 2019 when both vied unsuccessfully for the presidency as a candidate and running mate, to challenge Tinubu’s victory with sundry claims. It includes allegations that INEC failed to comply with its own laws in…