The government of the United Kingdom has condemned ethnic profiling and disenfranchisement of Igbos in Lagos during the just concluded governorship election held on March 18. “People chanting anti-Igbo messages and walking on the streets by polling units on election day is totally unacceptable. Not just in Lagos,” Ben Llewellyn-Jones, British deputy high commissioner to…
Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo hosted the 2022 CAF Confederation Cup final. The 21-storey Dakkada Towers was opened in 2021. It has its own airline, Ibom Air which is Africa’s only sub national airline. Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria has one of Africa’s largest libraries, Ibom E-library in Uyo. It has a 1,000 capacity conference…
The Nigerian Union of Journalists has called on the Rivers State government to shelve its plan to demolish the transmission station of Daar Communications Plc. Barring any last-minute change, the Rivers State Government will demolish the transmission station of the African Independent Television/Ray Power in Ozuoba, on the outskirts of Port Harcourt. This followed the…
A former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu; his wife Beatrice and their doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking, in the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act. Ekweremadu, 60; his wife, Beatrice, 56; and Dr Obinna Obeta, 51, were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain…
Dr. Peter Mbah while addressing the press after his victory at the poll, the Enugu State Governor-elect, Dr. Peter Mbah of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has assured that he’ll be the governor for all parts of Enugu irrespective of the cultural divide. Dr. Mbah gave the assurance on Thursday in his acceptance speech after…
… Urges Nigerian Politicians to Borrow from his uncommon Touch Politics An erudite scholar, author and political analyst of our time, Prof. Udenta O. Udenta of the Eastern Mandate Union (EMU), on behalf of the Global BAM Campaign Organization, congratulated His Excellency, Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State on his stunning reelection victory in the…
By Kenneth Okonkwo 12th March 2023. Winston Churchill once said that: “democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried.” He said this in the House of Commons, November 11, 1947, when he postulated that “Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in…
Tinubu married Delta woman – he and his children are not Igbo Seyi Tinubu married Igbo woman – his children are not Igbo. Akeredolu married Igbo woman – his children and him are not Igbo. Davido’s father/Uncle are children of an Igbo woman- But they are not Igbo. Gbadebo Rhodes Vivor’s Yoruba dad married an…
Chatham House, an independent policy institute based in London, has stated that from its analysis of the February 25 presidential election, it would appear that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) failed to learn new lessons. The organisation stressed that the electoral umpire failed to adhere to its own guidelines, which it enunciated before the…
Archbishop Onaiyekan‘Our attention has been drawn to a post making the rounds on the internet that His Eminence John Cardinal Onaiyekan, during his homily at Church of Assumption Asokoro urged Nigerians to “accept the result of the 2023 presidential election as announced by INEC.” ‘This is to let the general public know that such post…
