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The Directorate of State, DOS, Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, worldwide has declared 23rd September 2016 as the day for Biafrans worldwide to protest against the continued detention of its leader Nnamdi Kanu and for the freedom of Biafra people. In a statement signed by its Media and Publicity Officer, Mr Emma Powerful, IPOB said the worldwide protest will take …

New York (CNN)- A day after a bombing injured 29 people in a Manhattan neighborhood, police are scouring the area for clues about who was responsible for the explosion and why it happened. “We know it was a very serious incident, but we have a lot more work to do to be able to say what kind of motivation was …

A United States District Court, yesterday, dismissed a case by a Nigerian lawyer seeking to stop the repatriation of over $550 million of stolen funds during the regime of late General Sani Abacha (referred to as the Abacha loot) to Nigeria until the payment of his legal fees worth $320 million by the Nigerian Government. The thrashing of the case …

A socio-cultural group, Nedoghama Nedo, has endorsed the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, ahead of the September 28 governorship election in the state. ‎The group, comprising chiefs from the palace of the Oba of Benin, traditional priests, business owners and professionals, announced the endorsement after a meeting in Benin, the state capital.‎ The …

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that prompt and appropriate disciplinary action be taken against those responsible for a wrongful insertion in his speech delivered on September 8, 2016 at the launch of the “Change Begins with Me’’ campaign. Many critics have attacked Buhari for the similarity of his speech with that of President Barack Obama’s 2008 inaugural speech and called …

The Federal Government has released concrete proof of its efforts to secure the release of the Chibok girls, who were abducted from their school in April 2014 by Boko Haram, confirming President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment to the safe return of the girls. Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Friday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said …

The Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Godwin Obaseki, said that he would make Edo, a model to be emulated by other states, in terms of development. The Edo APC guber candidate for the Sept. 28 Governorship election, made the promise at a meeting with the Association of Salon Operators on Friday in Benin. He said the …

Washington – Presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, on Friday called on her rival of the Republican Party, Donald Trump, to repudiate his own history of questioning President Barack Obama’s nationality. Trump, a New York billionaire with little previous political participation, has long encouraged the “birther’’ movement that arose during Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, questioning whether he was born in the U.S. …

The National Examination Council (NECO) on Friday released the 2016 June/July Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) results. About 88.51% (or 905,011) of the candidates got five credits pass and above in English Language and Mathematics. In English, 857,699 or 84.54% had Credit and above while 812,846 or 80.16% had Credit and above in Mathematics. (Vanguard)

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, has assured Nigerians that the current economic recession the nation was experiencing will not be prolonged. She gave the assurance on Friday in Abuja while addressing a news conference. She said that there was a strategic plan by the administration to see that the recession ended soon and also ensure that the economy …