Day: September 28, 2017

Ohanaeze takes Biafra to London

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Leader of the apex Igbo socio-cultural group in Nigeria, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, John Nwodo, has maintained that restructuring remains the only way forward for Nigeria. He faulted the belief in some quarters that the north would be doomed if the country was restructured. He stressed that rather, the North, with right agricultural policies, would be the richest part of the country, if Nigeria is eventually restructured. Nwodo made these submissions when he spoke yesterday at the Chatham House, in London, where he delivered a paper on “Next Generation Nigeria: Accountability and…

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INEC releases names of Anambra guber candidates

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the names of all candidates for the November 18 Anambra state governorship election. The commission said on Wednesday in Abuja that political parties presented candidates. The Commission, in a statement by its Director of Publicity, Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, said the candidates included five women, and eight vying for the office of Deputy Governor. The governorship candidates are Mr Willie Obiano, the incumbent governor, with his deputy Nkemakonam Okeke, on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Others are Mr Oseloka…

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Trump, Facebook’s Zuckerberg in fire-for-fire

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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has fired back at US President Donald Trump after he accused the leading social network of being “always anti-Trump.” Zuckerberg rejected the notion, countering that Facebook is working to ensure “free and fair elections” with an online platform that does not favor one side over another. Zuckerberg’s post at Facebook on Wednesday came after Trump accused the social network of bias in a morning tweet that read: “Facebook was always anti-Trump.The Networks were always anti-Trump hence,Fake News, @nytimes(apologized) & @WaPo were anti-Trump. Collusion?” Early morning Twitter…

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Jonathan blasts Okorocha over 2015 election‎ bribery claims

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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has denied that he offered a bribe to Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, ahead of the 2015 presidential election. In a statement released by his spokesman, Ikechukwu Eze, Jonathan said he did not offer “huge sums of money and an influential ministry” to Okorocha in order to make him dump the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). “We offer to quickly dismiss these claims as lies, because we are clear in our minds that such conversation never happened. “We are wondering…

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Nigerian govt. rejects U.S. position on IPOB

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The Federal Government has described as “unfortunate” and “unacceptable,” the position of the U.S. Government over the declaration of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist group. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the government position Wednesday night in London when he featured on BBC Television programme, “Focus on Africa”. The Minister, who stressed that the Federal Government was right in declaring IPOB a terrorist organisation, noted that he could not make up with the U.S. seemingly disagreement with the position. “It is very…

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