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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has ordered residents of Aba, in Abia State, to sit at home, during President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit. Buhari is scheduled to commission the 9.5MW Independent Power Plant, at Ariaria Market in Osisioma Ngwa council area. The President will also attend the All Progressives Congress (APC) rally at the Enyimba Stadium. In a statement signed by the Media and Publicity Secretary of the group, Comrade Emma Powerful, IPOB urged her members in Aba and its environs, to ensure that the visiting President meets an empty Enyimba stadium because he is not welcome in the city. “All family members of IPOB within Aba metropolis are hereby instructed to observe a mini sit at home tomorrow (today) 29th January 2019 in total boycott of the impostor, Jubril AL-Sudani who is slated to be in Aba for an Islamic evil APC rally. “We must ensure that Jubril meets an empty stadium today because his murderous presence is not welcome in our land. Do not go out f

Acting Inspector General of Police IGP Mohammed Adamu The newly appointed acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar Adamu comes to his job with sufficient local experience and international exposure to make all the difference in running a thoroughly professional and ethical policing system – if he chooses to. And from what he has said and done so far, there is every reason for optimism: that Nigerians may have a police force they can trust, respect and cooperate with for the sake of their own and overall national security. There are more than enough suggestions on how to discharge his duty differently and we should add, more respectably – from his predecessor. The political parties, civil society organisations and concerned citizens have generally advised the IGP to clean up the image of the force, restore both respect and respectability to it, avoid partisanship and adhere to the due process in all its dealings. Against the backdrop of the unenviable leadership he

AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI “Oppressed people kill each other all the time. Angered by the misery of their lives, but cowed by the overt superior might of the oppressor they shrink from striking out at the true objects of their hostility. They strike instead, at their more defenceless brothers and sisters near at hand.” -Frantz Fanon While I was ruminating over the above-stated, conscience-pricking quote, someone came visiting and he said: “No Nigerian politician is worth dying for, not one! They are all a bunch of overtly greedy, irredeemably corrupt, self-elevating and vainglorious political parasites who serve the self rather than the state. Forget their party affiliations; they are all the same chameleons changing colours with every electoral season.” That was vintage Andy, my good old friend. He is back on the turf and brutally frank, as usual. Before I could respond he spoke again. “Before now some political analysts had identified Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Kaduna, Kano, Plate

NEW ACTING CJN... Following the suspension of Justice Walter Onnoghen as Chief Justice of the Federation (CJN), President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Tanko Muhammad in Acting capacity. Hon. Mr. Justice I. T. Muhammad, CFR was born on the 31st December 1953. He hails from Doguwa, Giade Local Government of Bauchi State. He attended primary school at Giade Primary School from 1961 to 1968. He proceeded to Government Secondary School, Azare from the year 1969 to 1973. His Lordship then proceeded to Abdullahi Bayero University College, Kano for his IJMB from 1975 to 1976. After a successful completion of his course, Justice Muhammad got admission to read Law at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria from 1976 to 1980. His Lordship attended Nigerian Law School from 1980 to 1981. In furtherance of his educational career, he went back to the prestigious ABU, Zaria for his Masters Degree in Law (LLM) on Part Time basis, from 1982 to 1984. In order to update himself in the field of Law, t

Nigerian Sosoliso plane crash survivor, Kechi Okwuchi took audience and judges at ‘America’s Got Talent: The Champion‘ by storm and got a Golden Buzzer from Simon Cowell. ‘America’s Got Talent: The Champions’ returned on Monday, January 28, with 10 former winners and standout acts from different ‘America’s Got Talents‘ editions around the world, all vying for the chance to advance to the finals round. Kechi first came to fame on season 12 of ‘America’s Got Talent’ in 2017. Kechi is one of the 2 passengers who survived the Sosoliso plane crash that took the lives of 107 people in December 2005. Watch her performance at ‘America’s Got Talent: The Champion’ below, source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/01/heartwarming-moment-nigerian-plane.html

                                                             update by Vanguard By Soni Daniel, Emmanuel Aziken, Clifford Ndujihe,  Ikechukwu Nnochiri,  Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Joseph Erunke, Omeiza Ajayi, Dirisu Yakubu & Ike Uchechukwu AHEAD of today’s meeting of the National Judicial Council, NJC, to deliberate on the boiling crisis in the Judiciary, security within the premises of the Supreme Court was beefed up, yesterday, especially around the office of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN. President Muhammadu Buhari’s suspension of Justice Walter Onnoghen as CJN over assets declaration glitches and the swearing-in of Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as his successor in acting capacity had been generating heat in the polity, especially in the Judiciary A man holds a sign as protesters assemble outside the secretariat of the Nigerian Bar Association during a protest in Abuja over the suspension of Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) in Abuja on January 28, 2019. – Nige

Femi Otedola, a prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of a former member of House of Representatives, Mr Farouk Lawan, over bribery allegation has said the 500,000 dollars offered to the defendant is from the Department of State Services (DSS). Otedola disclosed this before Justice Angela Otaluka of the FCT High Court, Apo on Monday while being cross examined by Mr Mike Ozekhome (SAN), counsel to Lawan. He said the money was given to him by the DSS to set a trap for Lawan after he wrote a petition against him, NAN reports. He accused Lawan of demanding 3 million dollars as bribe from him to exonerate his oil company, Zenon Petroleum and Gas Ltd, from the alleged subsidy scam in 2012. He further told the court that the 500,000 dollars was part payment of the 3 million dollars being demanded by Lawan, which was eventually given to him under the supervision of the DSS. Otedola said he petitioned the DSS immediately Lawan demanded for the bribe. “Lawan said he was goin