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  According to the group, “Since it is Igboho who wants his people out of the North to form the Yoruba nation, we will make it easy for him by asking Mr. Igboho to provide a means of transportation to convey his people to the southwest.” As primordial grievances within the Nigerian state continuously rear their head while the APC ...

  “Ogunde used his creativity to put the people of the Western Region in suspense. He metaphorically used banished to represent ‘maimed'” By Adedara Oduguwa PhD Immediately Chief Awolowo and 27 others were wrongly accused of treasonable felony against the mere geographical expression called Nigeria, many of his political opponents mocked him and celebrated the victory of his incarceration on ...

  But as usual, customs wanted to stop them for another round of check and it resulted in several gunshots in which one person was shot on his leg, which was eventually amputated in the hospital on Friday morning. Report reaching Pegasus Reporters say that there is tension with the port town of Apapa/Tincan and that vehicular movement are been ...

“I am here on an operational visit, I will be here for one week,” Attahiru said. Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, is on a one-week operational visit to Borno, commanding his men to enhance the ongoing fight against insurgency in the North East according to agency report. The COAS, a lieutenant-general, told reporters, Sunday, in Maiduguri ...

  ‌“We are not ready to give any attention or time to a joker like Dokubo who is just looking for attention. We will just take it as one of these entertainment things” The Federal Government, speaking through its spokesman, Alhaji Lai Muhammed has dismissed the reported formation of a Biafra Customary Government by an ex-Niger Delta militant, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, ...

  “Vaccinations in Nigeria started earlier this month and we have not observed any similar adverse reactions. All side effects reported by those who have been administered the vaccine have been mild” NAN Report The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has reassured Nigerians that the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 is safe. The Executive Secretary, NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib, said the ...

  “Probably as a tokenistic gesture, the GOTV, a DTT arm of MultiChoice, has two private northern-owned TV channels out of about 82 others,” The Guardian News report The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has threatened to organise and enforce a boycott of MultiChoice services in the Northern region, as it accused the owners and operators of DSTV, Nigeria’s leading ...

  PRESS RELEASE Sunday 14th March 2021. Agbarijo Egbe Odo Yoruba, (Grand Council of Yoruba Youths) during a meeting it held on Sunday 20th of march to mark its 20th anniversary has come out with a press statement titled Agbarijo Egbe Odo Yoruba @ 20: A Time for Sober Reflections, Thanksgiving and Genuine Appreciation of Nigerian Political Leaders and Youths. ...

  “The leadership of the organized labour has suggested that the state government should begin with piecemeal payment of these outstanding arrears so that the government can gradually relieve itself of these financial burdens. NAN Report The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Ekiti State Chapter, has given Governor Kayode Fayemi till May 1 to pay all outstanding salaries of workers in ...

  Hagler, 66, was a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He was 62-3-2 with 52 KOs. His most memorable win was a three-round KO of Thomas Hearns in 1985 that stands as one of the most exciting fights in Boston history. One of the titans of boxing history and a legend of the century, Marvelous Marvin Hagler ...