Tension engulfed Ekpaomaka community in Ikwo local government area of Ebonyi on Wednesday as gunmen invaded the community, killed four persons and set a building ablaze. Mr Steve Orogwu, Chairman of Ikwo local government council told newsmen that the hoodlums attacked Ekpaomaka, his country home, killed his elder brother, two of his brother’s sons and a security guard. He said the assailants also set his family house ablaze in the onslaught. “They attacked my house at night and killed my elder brother and two of his sons; they killed our security guard and also set the family house ablaze,” he…
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A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, refused to admit Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to bail. Justice Binta Nyako, in a ruling, held that since Kanu was earlier granted bail in 2017 and jumped the bail, the court must first determine the real reason he jumped the bail before he reapply for another one. Justice Nyako then dismissed the application for bail. The court had, on April 8, exonerated the Federal Government on the allegation that the leader of the IPOB was forcefully abducted abroad to stand his trial. Nyako, in a ruling,…
Bandit terrorists on Tuesday evening, struck the Abuja-Kaduna highway and abducted scores of passengers in an operation that lasted almost an hour, Daily Trust has reported. According to the report, the bandits blocked the highway between Kurmin Kare and Katari in Kachia local government area of Kaduna state and abducted passengers from commercial and private vehicles. The incident occurred just days after a youth corps member traveling on the highway was killed in a cross fire between bandits and security agents. Sources from Katari told Daily Trust that the incident occurred around 4pm, adding that the bandits had in the…
The United States of America says it will impose visa restrictions on anyone who promotes violence as Nigeria holds its general elections in 2023. America’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Mr Michael Gonzales, handed out the warning at an international conference with the theme: “United States Policy and Nigeria’s National Decisions in the 2023 Elections”, held at Johns Hopkins University, United States. The conference, which held at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC , virtually, brought together Nigerian and American policy communities to discuss issues around the 2023 general elections. It was organised by…
Nigerian government has warned Facebook and other social media platforms, to disallow the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) from using their platforms to incite violence and instigate ethnic hatred in the country. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed made the demand at a meeting with a team from Facebook in Abuja on Tuesday. According to him, since IPOB had been proscribed and classified as a terrorist organization, Facebook has no justification for yielding its platform to the organization to further its campaign of hate and destabilization of the country. “I have called this meeting to enable us…
A veteran journalist and activist, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman has called for a law to protect the press after reports of recent harassment and intimidation by presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar’s aides at the Plateau State Peoples Democratic Party PDP (PDP) Secretariat. Atiku Abubakar reportedly chased journalists out of the Secretariat, when he visited on Monday to meet with the State leadership and delegates of the party to discuss his 2023 Presidential ambition. Taking to his Facebook page, Suleiman said the recent case of Atiku’s personal guards and aides threatening and intimidating reporters in Plateau State highlighted the need for a law to…
Apple says it plans to introduce a new set of accessibility tools to its devices to aid those living with disabilities. The tools to include a door detection tool which uses sensors in an iPhone or iPad to help those with sight problems find their way when arriving at a new location. The suite of new software features would be introduced later this year, the technology giant confirmed. The door detection tool will be available to users with newer models of the iPhone and iPad Pro which house the firm’s Lidar scanner, which will be used alongside the device camera…
The National Industrial Court, on Tuesday ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to pay a judgment sum of N2.5 billion into an interest yielding account in the name of the court’s Registrar. The judgment sum as ordered by the court was contained in a judgment in a garnishee proceeding delivered by the same court on January 27, in favour of 110 disengaged staff of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, that were sacked in 1996. Garnishee proceedings is simply a judicial process of execution or enforcement of monetary judgment by the seizure or attachment of the debts due or…
By Fadhlillah Abdallah The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has explained that there is no error in the scoring system and does not plan to organise another 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Rumours have littered social media that the just concluded examination were full with errors and that the Board plans to conduct another. However, the spokesperson of the board, Dr Fabian Benjamin in a statement made newsmen on Tuesday, debunked the rumour. “The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned the general public, particularly candidates in the just- concluded 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), to…
Ahead of the National Convention to elect the flag-bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 Presidential election, the Nigerian women Arise For Nigeria (NIWAFON) has commenced what it described as aggressive mobilisation of delegates for Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State. The group said over 600 women groups, drawn from different parts of the country, and across all sectors of the economy, were in on what it described as the first-of-its-kind one-on-one delegates’ persuasion. Some of the women groups involved in the movement include: Non-Governmental Organisations, Civil Society Organisations, professional bodies, women in media, politics, market women…