JUST IN: Sunday Igboho held in Benin as FG silent on extradition warrant

  Nigeria has not issued an extradition warrant for a separatist activist who has been in jail in neighbouring Benin since July, lawyers said Saturday. Sunday Igboho, who pushes for independence for the southwestern Yoruba people, was arrested in Benin while trying to fly to Germany. “What we feared at the start was an extradition request but there is no such demand,” said Ibrahim David Salami, a lawyer for Igboho. Benin charged the activist with “associating with criminals”. “The fact that he is being investigated for a violation that could have been committed on Beninese territory is a hurdle to

South-East governors demand 2023 presidency

GOVERNORS of the South East zone on Friday asked all political parties in the country to pick their 2023 presidential candidates from the zone. Chairman, South East Governors Forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, while making the call asked political parties in the country not to scheme out the zone in the race. According to him, the region has sacrificed a lot and must be allowed to produce the next President of the country whether zoning or not zoning. Umahi made this known during a prayer summit organised by the state government at Ecumenical centre, Abakaliki. He called

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2023: Pro-Osinbajo support group gets approval to begin mobilisation

Supporters of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, under the aegis of the Progressives Consolidation Group, have received approval of the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, to canvass support for his emergence as the party’s candidate for the 2023 presidential election. The approval was contained in a letter titled, “Letter of Recognition As A Support Group,” dated October 4, 2021, which was signed by the Director, Administration of the APC, Abubakar Suleiman, and made public in Abuja on Saturday. The letter which was addressed to the PCG, read in part, “We write to inform you that the National Chairman, His Excellency,

Olu Falae: Borrowing not bad; but what for, from who, on what terms?

  Chief Olu Falae has said that there was nothing wrong with a government borrowing, but that the right answers must be provided for “for what purpose?” “from who?” and “what are the terms?”. The banker, administrator and politician raised the questions in an interview with Vanguard, while commenting on the debt profile of the Federal Government. He noted that Nigeria got into same foreign debt trap during Shagari’s era, when the government started issuing import licences far in excess of foreign earnings. Olu Falae said: “One is not condemning borrowing. But what are you borrowing for? From whom are

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Confusion as MTN network fails days after Facebook outage

  Nigerians have taken to social media to lament as local mobile network MTN suffers network disruptions, after days Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were hit by major outages. Complaints of MTN’s disrupted data services flooded social media websites such as Twitter on Saturday. The data network problems started at exactly 3pm (NGT), Vanguard gathered. Meanwhile, MTN has not released any statement on the outage at the time of filing this report. See some of the reactions gathered by Vanguard below; @SirLeoBDasilva: “I bought Airtel mifi today and ordered Glo mifi as well. My sister said I am too paranoid. Look

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FUTA Offers Admission To Niger Delta Ex-Militants Without JAMB

The Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Ondo State, has developed admission criteria where Niger Delta ex-militants will not necessarily write JAMB before enrolling into the institution. According to the institution’s management, the pre-degree programme run by the institution will assist the federal government in skill acquisitions and vocational training for the ex-militants who are beneficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Programme. The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman Governing Council of FUTA, Amb. (Dr.) Godknows Igali, stated this when he led the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Fuwape and other top officials of the institution on a courtesy visit to the Interim Administrator of Presidential

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How Kidnap Victims Survived On Grasses For 53 Days

Some of the victims who were kidnapped in different parts of Zamfara State resorted to eating grasses to survive when their captors left them with no food. One of the victims, who gave her name as Iklima Murtala, claimed that 17 persons died as a result of starvation. Receiving the victims on behalf of the government, the secretary to the state government, Alhaji Kabiru Balarabe, said, “The state government will continue to put pressure on the bandits until they finally give up.” The commissioner of police in the state, Ayuba Elkana, had noted that due to pressure and lack of

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Man uses boy as ‘collateral’ to steal two bags of rice from Lagos shop

A retailer on Felicia Oke Street in the Olowora area of Lagos State, Olabisi Opeyemi, is smarting from the loss inflicted on her by a suspected thief who disguised as a customer to steal two bags of rice from her shop. City Round learnt that the suspect, still at large, went to the shop on Thursday afternoon in company with two boys said to be about 15-year-old to buy two 50-kilogramme bags of rice. It was gathered that he made Opeyemi’s younger sister, Alima, who was in the shop at the time, believe that the boys were his brothers and

Abia SS3 student fakes own kidnap to extort ‘stingy’ mother

The Police in Abia State have arrested a Senior Secondary School 3 student, who allegedly staged his own kidnap to extort money from his mother, Mrs. Rose Nwatu, accusing her of being stingy. The suspect, a native of Obikabia in Isiala Ngwa North council area, aged 17, allegedly conspired with another and went into hiding at a hotel in Aba. The Police also arrested a girl, whose bank account was used to pay the ransom of N200, 000. Briefing journalists in Umuahia, Commissioner of Police in the State, Mrs Janet Agbede said on September 19, one Wisdom Nwatu of Obikabia

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Jay Jay Okocha reunites with Westerhof in London

Nigeria’s best ever foreign coach, Clemens Westerhof and his family were in London last week for a documentary on the glory days of Nigerian football.   There, Westerhof met his players in Jay Jay Okocha and his brother Emma.   Emma played in Algiers ’90 where Nigeria won silver under Westerhof. The younger Okocha played in Tunisia ’94 where Eagles won the Nations Cup and landed at USA ’94 as Africa’s champions.   Emma was no longer in the team, but Jay Jay’s skills contributed to the team being adjudged the best entertaining team with Brazil.   They both had

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