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Follwing protests by the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB and the Indigenous People Of Biafra, IPOB, the Campaign for Democracy CD has lambasted Igbo indigenes who are against the peaceful protests. CD South East Chairman, Dede Uzor A. Uzor insited that the right to peaceful protest was enshrined in the constitution. He said his group will only be against the demonstrations if they become violent. CD, however, called on the people of South East who are sympathetic to the demands of the two groups to boycott all the products from the stable of vocal Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr Ejike Mbaka, who described the protesting youths as evil, because “an evil person is not expected to use the product of a saint like Fr Mbaka”. CD further urged the Catholic authority to call Fr Mbaka, “who cannot count as the one of the first 1000 best priests in Nigeria”, to order. The group said Mbaka was a disgrace and may end up being an embarrassment to the respe...

Mikel Obi”s girl, Olga Diyachenko shared a video of him playing with his twin babies, Mia and Ara at their home. The girls are growing to be so beautiful. Continue to see more lovely photos…

by Chinedu Nwosu Your Excellency Sir. Social Media had been on fire just because today marked the day of your birth. From Viola Ifeyinwa Okolie to Ena Ofugara, from Prince Henry Nwazuruahu Shield to Bile Nuhu, from Wale Smith to Chinomnso Awazie, from Phil Smart to Osi Peter Asika. And many more from your supporters all over Facebook and Twitter. Sir, while you have gone. 1.) Those who accused you of cluelessnesss are today taking selfies at the Auto plants and with Made in Nigeria vehicles a dividend of your auto policy. 2.) Those who insulted you and insisted that the Petroleum subsidy program was a scam just approved a 0.5 Trillion naira subsidy scam payment. 3.) The Professor who claimed your successor will definitely bring fuel pump to N40 have suddenly gone deaf and dumb while fuel prize is currently cruising around 600 naira in some cities. 4.) Those who claimed you were heading to Chad to plan more attacks on us were the first to visit Chad after you left. 5.)...

A male teacher has been arrested for illegally running a strip club and brothel where he usually piped women out for sex in Tennessee. The 44-year-old teacher identified as Walter Mccrimmon of Memphis, resigned from his job after he was suspended without pay. McCrimmon, who was employed at the Raleigh-Egypt High School in Shelby County, was booked into jail on eight counts of promoting prostitution, illegal sale of alcoholic beverages and money laundering. According to WWWN, police raided Walt’s Place located at 3572 Commerce Circle, after undercover officers made eight offers of prostitution deals, including some directly with McCrimmon. Unsuspecting McCrimmon offered the undercover officers sex for $50 but was arrested in the middle of the plans

Soludo delivered this lecture in Enugu on Thursday, November 19 The timing of this lecture is auspicious—coming in the 6th month after the inauguration of a new administration, and also with a new federal cabinet now in place. Before the government rolls out its full agenda, this is a good time to begin our citizen duty of joining the ever continuous discourse on the economy. Our focus for now shall be pre-emptive and provocative— to challenge the Buhari/APC regime not only to demonstrate that it can manage the economy better than the PDP but also that it can lay the foundation for sustainably shared prosperity in a post-oil economy. Let me make three quick points to provide some context to our discourse. First, I supported President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) over Jonathan not because I was convinced about the credibility of the APC manifesto (and I said so in my article in January this year) but for three reasons. I was convinced that the last economic team was bankrupting the econo...

The Director General, National Taskforce to Combat Illegal Importation of Small Arms, Ammunition, and Light Weapons, NATFORCE, Dr. Emmanuel Osita Okereke, on Friday alleged that former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki wanted him dead for reporting some of his (Dasuki) activities to former President Goodluck Jonathan. He also threw his weight behind the Department of State Services, DSS, for preventing Dasuki from traveling abroad. The DSS operatives have continued to lay siege on Dasuki’s residence despite a court order. However, briefing journalists in Enugu, the NATFORCE DG advocated that anybody standing trial on criminal case should not be allowed to travel overseas under whatever guise. He alleged that Dasuki was one of the people that deceived former President, Goodluck Jonathan, when he convinced him to remove all the service chiefs. According to him, “There is information we made available to the former President and he was directed to invite us for more inform...

Eighty hostages held by Islamist gunmen have been freed from a luxury hotel in Mali's capital as government special forces moved floor by floor to clear the building, Mali's state broadcaster and a security source. "The attackers are still inside. We're hearing gunfire from time to time," said a witness outside the Radisson Blu hotel. Malian special forces entered the Radisson Blu in the capital Bamako on Friday after Islamist gunmen attacked the luxury hotel and took hostages, a witness and a police source said.

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, should be thanking his stars right about now for escaping Friday morning’s attack on a hotel in Bamako, Mali by unknown gunmen. The media was awash with reports that gunmen had stormed the Radisson Blu hotel in the Malian capital on Friday morning taking 140 guests and 30 staff hostage. The reports elicited apprehension in Nigeria over reports that the business mogul was trapped in the hotel, but it has now been confirmed that he checked out of the facility 24 hours earlier. Aljazeera English correspondent in Nigeria Yvonne Ndege, confirmed via her Twitter handle that she had a direct conversation with the President of the Dangote Group of Companies, who has since being in Nigeria, safe. Meanwhile, Dangote has said a word of prayer for those caught up in the Mali hostage situation. He wrote on Twitter: “Rumour about me being held hostage is false. I was in Mali yesterday. Thank you for your concern. My prayers with those involved”.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has denied signing out $2 billion dollars for the procurement of arms in South Africa as claimed by the the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki. Jonathan made the statement at a forum titled “Presidential elections and democratic consolidation in Africa: Case studies on Nigeria and Tanzania” in Washington DC, on Thursday. The session was co-hosted by National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) with Jonathan as the sole speaker. A presidential investigations committee into arms procurement under the administration of President Jonathan revealed in its interim report that it found extra-budgetary spending by the Jonathan administration to the tune of N643.8 billion and an additional $2.2 billion in the foreign currency component, all managed and supervised by Sambo Dasuki. Read More : On Dasuki President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday received the interim report of the investigative co...

Gunmen suspected to be Jihadists have taken about 170 people hostage after they attacked Radisson Blu Hotel, a five-star hotel in Mali's capital Bamako this morning. The armed men stormed the hotel and started a shooting rampage. "It is all happening on the seventh floor, jihadists are firing in the corridor," an unnamed security official told AFP. Automatic weapon fire could be heard from outside the 190-room hotel, where security forces set up a security cordon. "The Rezidor Hotel Group ... is aware of the hostage-taking that is ongoing at the property today... As per our information two persons have locked in 140 guests and 30 employees," the company said in a statement. The shooting follows a 24-hour siege and hostage-taking situation at another hotel in August in the central Malian town of Sevare.

The 36 state governors at a meeting yesterday, at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja under the umbrella of Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, said that dwindling prices of oil has affected their states income thereby making it difficult to pay the N18,000 minimum wage that was signed into law in March 2011 by former President Goodluck Jonathan. However, the Labour Union rejected the governors stance saying that workers will shut down the government if the Governors don’t pay the minimum wage.  The factional president of the NLC Ayuba Wabba said the Governors salaries were ridiculously high asking them to declare salaries their as approved by the Revenue and Fiscal Mobilisation Commission, that of their commissioners, advisers and others, their security votes and others. He also asked about the bloated overhead cost, inflated contracts by the Governors. The Governors said it was easier to pay the minimum wage when oil sold at $126 as against the current $41 per...