Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Thursday declared that his Eastern Security Network, ESN, will operate without the support of Southeast governors. Kanu said ESN revolved around the people and not Southeast governors or politicians.  The IPOB leader made the claims while disregarding Southeast governors who are not involved with the security outfit. He spoke through the Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Emma Powerful. A statement by Powerful reads partly: “Now that the southeast govs have distanced themselves from the eastern security network, how can it work successfully without their support? “We never expected the governors to support Eastern Security Network. The governors are part of our problem because of their selfish interests. They are the ones benefitting under the current one Nigeria slavery. “But the truth remains that their dissociation from the security outfit is of no significance or consequence. ESN is the people’s movement. It doesn’t rev...

The Catholic Church has backed Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Fr. Hasan Kukah’s position on the state of the nation. Bishop Kukah had in his Christmas message which has generated a lot of reactions opposed the nepotism, which according to him, had potray the government of President Buhari. The cleric claimed there could have been a coup or war in the country if a non-Nothern Muslim was the President in the last five years and did some of the things Buhari was doing. The Director of Social Communication, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, in CSN, Rev. Fr. Mike Umoh, in a statement expressed concern over allegations that Kukah was trying to instigate violence and hinder national integration with his message. Rev. Umoh, describing the attackers as ‘agents of evil’, said that the Catholic Church of Nigeria stands with Kukah owing to the continued security and economic challenges facing the country. Umoh said, “As expected, the agents of evil have gathered to attack the person of the Bis...

                      Image  Courtesy - Skitter/Pixabay The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Aviation, Senator Smart Adeyemi, on Monday said the National Assembly and the Ministry of Aviation were considering banning flights from the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries with high rates of COVID-19. Adeyemi said a decision on the issue would be announced next week. He expressed the National Assembly and the Federal Government were concerned about the second wave of COVID-19. He stated that the joint National Assembly Committees on Aviation, the Aviation Ministry and agencies in the sector had been holding regular meetings in the past few days on the matter.  “We are still trying to study the situation so as to know the appropriate steps to take. It is a very sad situation no doubt. “The National Assembly and the Aviation Ministry are looking at what really should be done on the call to ban some of the f...

                          Photo -    File Copy.   Award-winning and outstanding musician   Adedeji Adeleke popularly known as  Davido, has taken to his verified Twitter page to reveal his intention to quit music. His decision followed the multiple online reports that he had a dispute with Burna Boy at a club, Hype, in Ghana. According to several unconfirmed reports, Nigerian singers Davido and Burna Boy got into an altercation at a nightclub in Ghana. In his tweet, the FEM singer simply said, “I go leave this music for una.”   A video shared by a Twitter user shows when  Davido attacked another man reported to be Burna Boy at the nightclub, over the weekend.

The U.S. Attorney says that Anthony Quinn Warner 63 - year - old is the Nashville bomber, he died at the bomb site. A uthorities confirmed during a press conference Sunday. DNA evidence was processed by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation overnight and it was confirmed that DNA evidence at the bomb site (human tissue) matched that of Anthony Quinn Warner. The blast occurred Friday at 6:30 a.m. CT, after a computerized voice emerging from a parked RV loudly warned people to evacuate, saying the vehicle would explode in minutes. No pedestrians perish from the blast, but  explosion left at least three people injured,  set several other vehicles on fire, destroyed a number of buildings and knocked out wireless service in the area. Th VIN recovered from the RV linked it to Warner. The FBI says that they are still working to determine the motive. Anthony Quinn Warner

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to Saudi Press Agency reports on Friday. Salman's vaccination came as a part of the national immunization system administered by Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health. Health Minister, Tawfiq Al-Rabiah thanked the crown prince to be a part of the vaccination drive. He tweeted, "The wonderful collaboration between government agencies in this crisis situation, is succeeded with the help of the exceptional leader, who works tirelessly. He created a harmonious team that works with high professionalism and the welfare of the people is it s first priority. Over 500,000 people have already registered to take the COVID-19 vaccine in Saudi Arabia.

Mobster suggested to be members of the Boko Haram guerrilla  group have killed at least six persons and burnt a church in Chibok, Borno state. They also abducted another seven, including a pastor," Kachallah Usman, secretary of the Chibok local government area, told CNN on Friday.  Local sources said about six cars and five other houses of the church were burnt. The attack was carried out on Christmas eve on the EYN [Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a ] also known as Church of the Brethren Nigeria in Pemi, a ward under Chibok local government area of Borno state. “The insurgents came in around 5:30 pm through Gogombi,” one of the villagers said. “They came in batches of two. The first came in with a motorcycle while the other came in heavy vehicles. As soon as they entered the village, they started shooting sporadically and towards the EYN church. “Then they set it on fire. They also torched six cars and five other buildings around the church. Some of us ran to the bush, but unfortunately ...

Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land, also  the latest ordained Apostle of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, has advised Christian faithful to show love and compassion towards others, especially the poor, during the festive season He spoke at the second edition of the Aare Onakakanfo Christmas Carol held at Agindingbi, Ikeja, Lagos. Adams enjoined Christian faithful to learn from the scriptures and have a target in the coming year. He said: “This carol is never a jamboree; it is organised to reflect on the life and times of Jesus Christ, and to look forward to the New Year with hope and excitement. “This year has been tough and turbulent; COVID-19 affected every sector of the global economy, and I think we need to use this event to reflect on the way forward because despite the seemingly global health challenges, God counted us worthy to be alive. “I assure everyone that the coming year will be of abundant rewards. All that we have lost because of COVID-19 will be given to us back in ab...

                                                    Image Courtesy - AFP Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to the President, Mallam Garba Shehu, stated yesterday that there was need to stop herdsmen from roaming all over the country to prevent clashes with farmers. Shehu spoke when he featured on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme. He said: “This country has a grazing problem because the herders are mostly Fulani. The challenge is from these places they had practiced, you know, the encroachment by desert leading to drying up of a lot of grazing lands in the northern-most parts of the country.  “This has put pressure on the herders who have been looking to the south-west green grass so that their cattle will eat and also have water to drink. It is a global climate situation which is unfortunate considering what has happened along t...

  A heartless police sergeant attached to the Elelenwo Police Division has shot dead a 38-year-old man, Abiodun Jimoh, in Elelenwo community, in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. Abiodun was shot right at the entrance of Elelenwo Police Divisional Office by the Officer where a patrol team of the Division had dragged him along with Ismaheed, his brother, after arresting them on a bike they were riding.  Ismaheed, a phone and laptops repairer, who, along with the late brother, hails from Kwara State, said: “On Friday night, police on patrol stopped us. I was riding a lady’s bike with my brother on the passenger seat. “They searched us, saw our ID cards.  When they saw nothing implicating, one of the senior officers told a restless junior officer to leave us. “The defiant junior officer insisted we were criminals and he must take us to the station. My late brother entered their van, I pleaded to ride on my bike joined by one of them. “I rode in front with...

A Nigerian medical  doctor in the United States, Dr Ben Okigbo, has shot himself to death.  Ben Okigbo and his wife, Theresa, were found dead in their Sugar Land, Texas home on Friday morning, according to police. Sugar Land Police Department, Texas officer, Chief Eric Robins, was quoted as saying: “One of the kids dialed 911 apparently when he suspected that there was a fight or disturbance going on inside the residence. When police officers arrived at the house, they found the couple dead inside their home. It appears that it could be a potential murder-suicide, but it has not been totally ruled.” Police said the couple’s three adult children were also at the scene, with two of them suffering non-life-threatening injuries. Chief Robins said it is a tough situation, especially with Christmas a week away. “When these types of things happen, especially during this time of the year, holiday season with everything else that is going on, we ask people who have crisis in their home...

President-elect Joe Biden is receiving his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on live television as part of a growing effort to convince the American public the vaccines are safe. “I don’t want to get ahead of the line, but I want to make sure we demonstrate to the American people that it is safe to take," Biden has said of his decision. Biden and his wife, Jill, will also thank health care workers at the facility where they receive the shots, his incoming press secretary has said. Vice President Pence, second lady Karen Pence and Surgeon General Jerome Adams were administered their initial vaccination shots during an on-camera event on Friday.

                                          Image Courtesy-useche70/pixabay Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Sunday urged the federal government to immediately restrict flights, temporarily, from the United Kingdom.  Atiku’s call comes on the heels of news of a new strain of COVID-19 circulating in the UK. The new strain is reported to be more infectious than the original COVID-19 virus. Several countries, including France and other EU states, have already suspended flights from the UK. “The reason Nigeria took a harder than necessary hit during the first wave of the #COVID19 virus is that the Federal Government failed to heed the warnings of well-meaning Nigerians, like myself and others, to shut down our borders once the virus became a pandemic,” Atiku said in a statement on Sunday. “Hindsight is 20/20. Nevertheless, we must learn from history, or we stand the risk of r...

                              Image Courtesy- Amber Clay/Pixabay Police and Local  vigilante groups in Katsina State have rescued eighty-four kidnap victims, mostly Islamiyya school children in Mahuta village of Dandume Local Government Area of the state. The DPO of Dandume LGA got a distress call and moved in his men. Police Spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, in a statement Sunday said the DPO led Operations “Puff Adder,” Sharan Daji and Vigilante group to the area and engaged the bandits into a fierce gun duel. The bandits had already abducted four people and stolen a dozen cows when they ran into the schoolchildren who were on their way home from a celebration, Katsina state police spokesman, Gambo Isa, said early Sunday morning. Police and a local community self-defence group rescued the children from the bandits after a gunfight, he said. "The teams succeeded in dislodging the bandits and rescued all the 84 kidn...

  Spokesman of Defence Headquarters, Major General John Eneche, claims that the troops of Operation Hadarin Daji rescued all 344 abducted students of  GSSS Kankara,   in  northwestern Katsina State, Nigeria  . Bello Matawalle, governor of Zamfara, and Bello Masari, governor of Katsina , had disjointly said the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association played a major role in the release of the schoolboys.   Meanwhile, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) has denied they negotiated the release of students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State. In a statement, General Enenche disclosed that the military rescued the boys, thanking “the members of general public who volunteered information are also appreciated”. He explained that the school boys were rescued “on the heels of credible intelligence by the gallant troops”, who deployed high-tech expertise to ensure that there are no casualties on the part of the boys. “Keeping...

The Conference of Igbo Elders for Peace and Development announced Thursday in a statement signed by National President, Dr. Festus Edochie, and National Secretary, Barrister (Mrs) Esther Amadi. The elders have condemned  the formation of  South East Security Network  by the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, The elders also advised Igbo governors to immediately move to stop Kanu’s “illegal” action by creating a security outfit for the South-East zone.  They begged the southeast governors and businessmen in the region to pull resources together and form a security outfit like Amotekun or civilian JTF backed by law, which can be controlled and be effective.” According to the statement, the elders said their attention was drawn to a trending video of some misguided youths armed with prohibited firearms and dangerous weapons, describing it as an “inglorious activities of Mr. Kanu”. “We observe with utmost shock and concern a disturbing video of a gr...

Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram, had on Tuesday said his group was responsible for the attack. In a new video released on Thursday by the insurgents, some of the boys, looking confused appealed to the government to comply with the terrorist so that they can be freed.  “Please help us. Tell the vigilantes and soldiers not to come around,” one of the boys in the video said, adding  “more than 500 of us are in the forest”. “Close any form of school, including Islamiyah. Please send the army back. They can’t do anything to help us. Please sir, we need your assistance,” the distraught boy said. At the end of the video, a voice believed to be that of Shekau said, “he was doing Allah’s work”. Aminu Masari, governor of Katsina, had  claimed that bandits  and not Boko Haram abducted the schoolboys.  But a recent video clip released by Boko Haram and made public on Thursday by HumAngle shows teenagers believed to be the Kankara schoolboys. “The report we have and fr...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) announced that it will start implementing  the National Identification Number (NIN) directive on driver’s license processing in Nigeria, starting from Dec. 21.  The NIN is established to be used for all transactions that need identity verification  .  Mr Bisi Kazeem, Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM), Corps Public Education Officer, said in a statement on Wednesday, in Abuja. Kazeem said that the enforcement became necessary following the Federal Government’s directives  and advised the citizens going for driver’s license  to comply with the notice. “As a follow up to that, FRSC management has resolved that effective Dec. 21, 2020, all applicants for the National Driver’s License in Nigeria must present the NIN from the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). “This is necessary before they can be captured for any class of the licenses produced by the FRSC.” The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) has also ma...

The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, on Sunday, was ordained as an Apostle at the Saviour’s Ministry in Lagos. Speaking after his ordination, Gani Adams criticized President Buhari's administration for  not doing enough about the security matter in the country, He said that the recent abduction of 330 students in a school in Katsina is a clear evidence of security threats in the country. In his words -  “There is no denying the fact that Nigeria is at crossroads because the present situation in the country is a pointer to the fact that this government has failed. “How can you explain the abduction of about 600 students in a school? It is saddening to accept this as a parent, but also ridiculous as a leader who knows much about what it takes to lead a country like Nigeria. “The abduction happened in Katsina State, the country home of the president, where he was presently on a week-long visit. It is absurd. “The whole event is a justification of...

  Boko Haram jihadist force has claimed responsibility for the abduction of over 300 students from the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State, last Friday, December 11. In a 4 minutes 28 seconds audio released on Monday night December 14, the leader of the deadly terror group, Abubakar Shekau, said contrary to reports ongoing in the news, the group is yet to make any demands . “What happened in Katsina was done to promote Islam and discourage un-Islamic practices as Western education is not the type of education permitted by Allah and his Holy Prophet. They are also not teaching what Allah and his Holy Prophet commanded. They are rather destroying Islam. It may be subtle, but Allah the Lord of the skies and earth knows whatever is hidden. May Allah promote Islam. May we die as Muslims.” In a nutshell, we are behind what happened in Katsina,”  The government said a joint rescue operation was launched Saturday by Nigeria’s police, air force and army after ...

President-elect Joe Biden stated Monday, hours after the Electoral College made his victory over President Donald Trump, he said that "the rule of law, our Constitution and the will of the people prevailed" over Trump's efforts to undo the results of the election " "The flame of democracy was lit in this nation a long time ago. And we now know nothing, not even a pandemic or an abuse of power, can extinguish that flame," Biden said.