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• Okorocha: Imo Governor disowns Biafra again, says Nnamdi Kanu is on his own

  16-09-2017 23:49 via pulse.ng
  Okorocha, who recalled how he was raised in the north and struck success in the south-west, said no Igbo man would support the division of the Nigeria. Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has once again disowned the idea of Biafra, affirming that his "community and identity is Nigeria." The Governor stated this in Owerri on Saturday, September 16, at the new yam festival organised by the State Council of Traditional Rulers, headed by HRM Eze Samuel Ohir."I can see that the unity of Nigeria
  
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• Okorocha: Imo Gov disowns Biafra again, says Nnamdi Kanu is on his own

  16-09-2017 23:49 via pulse.ng
  Okorocha, who recalled how he was raised in the north and struck success in the south-west, said no Igbo man would support the division of the Nigeria. Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has once again disowned the idea of Biafra, affirming that his "community and identity is Nigeria." The Governor stated this in Owerri on Saturday, September 16, at the new yam festival organised by the State Council of Traditional Rulers, headed by HRM Eze Samuel Ohir."I can see that the unity of Nigeria
  
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• IPOB not a terrorist organization – Ohanaeze

  16-09-2017 23:40
  By Dennis AgboENUGU – Ohanaeze Ndigbo has faulted Nigeria army’s declaration of the Indegenous People of Biafra, IPoB, as a terrorist organisation.Ohanaeze said that indeed IPOB is not a terrorist organization going by extant national and international laws, especially the terrorist prevention Act 2011, as amended in 2015.
  It‎ however commended the South east Governors for their role in dousing the escalated tension over army’s siege of the region.
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• South East govs have enslaved themselves in the hands of Hausa Fulani masters – IPOB

  16-09-2017 23:32
  The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Saturday night condemned the South East Governor’s Forum over their proscription of the activities of the organization which it
  
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• Egypt court upholds life sentence for Morsi in Qatar case

  16-09-2017 23:09
  A top court on Saturday upheld a life sentence against Egypt’s ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi on charges stemming from a trial over spying for Qatar, a judicial official and his lawyer said.
  Ex Egyptian President, Mohamed MorsiThe court of cassation upheld a life sentence first passed in June 2016 on the charge of leading an illegal group but threw out a 15-year sentence on the charge of having stolen secret documents, his lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsud told AFP.
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• It is our role as Christians to bind people together - Vice President Osinbajo speaks on Nigeria's unity

  16-09-2017 23:07
  - The vice president has warned that Nigeria's unity must be preserved- Yemi Osinbajo said nobody or group can break Nigeria- he further called on
  
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• Nigerian woman trafficked to Oman begs for repatriation in anonymous audio message

  16-09-2017 23:01
  A Nigerian woman in Oman, a country on the Arabian peninsula, has passionately cried out to Nigerian authorities for help.
  In an apology unverified audio shared on social media, the unnamed woman who made a desperate plea for help, begged anyone who gets the audio to distribute it until it gets to the Nigerian authorities.
  Speaking in Yoruba language, the woman begged for repatriation of herself and other Nigerian ladies from Oman.
  She explained that Nigerian women are used as slaves in the Arab
  
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• Video: No Biafra, Igbo man tells Kashim Shettima

  16-09-2017 22:52
  Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state met with an Igbo man, owner of a filling station in Borno.
  The Igbo man in this video said (Ba maganaBiafra) no to Biafra, saying that ‘now that I have this property in your place (state) where will I go?. But to pray’
  Kashim Shettima speaking said: You are a northern Igbo man. No one will pursue you…
  Igbo man replied: Our forefathers did not say we (Nigerians) should divide so it will not be possible for us to break as a nation…
  
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• Bakayoko: We beat Tottenham, we’ll beat Arsenal too

  16-09-2017 22:39
  Chelsea midfielder, Tiemoue Bakayoko said beating Tottenham at Wembly is a motivation for the Blues to do the same as they face Arsenal today in another English Premier League.
  BakayokoThe Frenchman is in his debut season in English football, but he is well versed in the various rivalries that come with playing for a London club and the heightened importance supporters place on certain fixtures, especially when facing a neighbour who also has ambitions of lifting silverware this season.
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• Hajj: 2,842 Kaduna pilgrims return home

  16-09-2017 22:26
  Kaduna State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, on Saturday said a total of 2,842 pilgrims from Kaduna had returned home after performing 2017 hajj in Saudi Arabia.
  The Board Public Relations Officer, Yunusa Abdullahi, made this known in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna.
  Abdullahi said that the pilgrims returned by Medview and Max Air in six flights.
  He said Medview transported 1,786 pilgrims while Max Air transported 1,078 pilgrims.
  “The 6th batch with 542 pilgr
  
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• Anybody found with Biafra flag will be arrested – Nigerian Police

  16-09-2017 22:23
  Abia State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Anthony Ogbizi has warned that anybody found with Biafra emblem will be arrested and charged to court.Ogbizi who stated
  
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• Updated: DSS allegedly storm Nnamdi Kanu's residence days after military invasion (photos)

  16-09-2017 22:14
  - Operatives of the Department of State Services have allegedly stormed the residence of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu- The
  
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• Urhobo HOSTCOM laments exclusion from PANDEF’s leadership

  16-09-2017 22:01
  The Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas, HOSTCOM, Urhobo chapter, Delta State, has decried not having a representative in the membership of Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF/ dialogue team, led by Chief Edwin Clark, presently negotiating with the Federal Government.
  HOSTCOM, in a letter to Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, Minister of State for Petroleum Resource, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu and Chief Edwin Clark, said Comrade Efe G. Okovwurie, chairman of Urhobo HOSTCOM was nominated and mandated t
  
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• Kokarhaye sworn in as IDU PG

  16-09-2017 22:01
  The new President General Ibruvwe Development Union, IDU,  Mr. Wilson Kokarhaye has assured the people of the community of effective representation.
  Kokarhaye who spoke shortly after he was sworn-in along other members of his executive  to pilot the affairs of  IDU for the next two years, said he would work in harmony with government and development agencies to attract developmental projects to the area.
  “l  use this medium to solicit for your support adding that a tree
  
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• Aisha Buhari's N390K Oscar de la Renta caftan dress causes stir on social media

  16-09-2017 21:58
  An expensive designer dress worn by the First Lady Aisha Buhari during a reception she held for her visiting Ugandan counterpart, Mrs. Janet Museveni, has
  
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• Elders should not complain when python consumes a child – Lauretta Onochie

  16-09-2017 21:57
  By Nwafor Sunday
  Following the recent deployment of Operation Python Dance (11) in the South Eastern part of Nigeria and their ongoing legal activities exercised on the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, the Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, Saturday idiomatically expressed that ‘elders should not complain when python consumes a child who plays with it’ whereas they ‘Elders’ looked away the moment the child started playing
  
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• ICYMI: Ezekwesili fires back at Shehu over IPOB comment

  16-09-2017 21:56
  Kunle Falayi
  A statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu, asking the co-convener of the #BringBackOurGirls group, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, to “rise above pettiness” has triggered a series of tweets from the former Education Minister, in which she described Shehu as incompetent.
  “(I am) Well aware of @GarShehu’s acute incompetency, so, let me give him another opportunity to study my advice to President @MBuhari and don’
  
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• Breaking: S/East govs have enslaved themselves – IPOB

  16-09-2017 21:42
  By Vincent Ujumadu, AwkaThe Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Saturday night condemned the South East Governor’s Forum over their proscription of the activities of the organization which it described as most peaceful body in the world.South-East govs during emergency meeting over IPOB, Op Python Dance
  In a statement signed by its media and publicity secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, the organization said the speed with which the governors announced the proscription of IPOB activities had
  
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• Car bomb kills three in Iraq’s Kirkuk

  16-09-2017 21:40
  A car bomb explosion targeting shops selling alcohol in Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk on Saturday killed three civilians and wounded nine, a security official said.
  He said the blast damaged the shops and sparked a fire in three vehicles.
  Kirkuk is the capital of the oil-rich province of the same name which is disputed by the federal government in Baghdad and the autonomous region of Kurdistan.
  The blast comes as Kurdish leaders prepare to hold an independence referendum on September 25 i
  
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• DANGER: World to end September 23, says numerologist

  16-09-2017 21:34
  There are predictions that the world will on Sept. 23, 2017 following expected collision of a planet with earth.A Christian numerologist David Meade who made
  
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• PDP: Over 14,000 Ali Modu Sheriff's loyalists defect to APC

  16-09-2017 21:32 via pulse.ng
  The defectors said they were "suffocated out of the party through deliberate act of impunity which led to the defeat of the party in 2015." Thousands of members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and loyalists to a former national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, Ali Modu Sheriff, have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).It was gathered that more than 14,000 of the defectors were led out of the opposition party by Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, a former National Vice C
  
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• Erosion control: Oko community plants over 1,000 trees

  16-09-2017 21:21
  In an effort to further fight erosion menace that has continued to cause harm in Oko, the home town of former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, the community has begun planting of trees with robust root system.
  The Chairman of  Ezioko village, Oko, Men’s meeting in Lagos, Mr. Chukwuneke Okafor, in a statement disclosed that over 1,000 trees have already been planted in various erosion sites in the town, including the road leading to the Federal Polytechnic, Oko to stop further  d
  
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• APC group alleges hijack of 65 NDDC projects in Delta

  16-09-2017 21:14
  By Brisibe Perez
  TWO months after leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC,  in Delta State resolved to sheath their swords and work for the unity of the party, fresh crack has hit the party over the sharing of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, projects allocated to the state.
  Members of a group, Consolidated Delta APC, convened by a  chieftain of the party in the state, Chief Hyacinth Enuha, and President Muhammadu Buhari’s media aide, Loretta Onochie, are angry
  
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• Stop taking women for granted, Aisha Buhari warns politicians

  16-09-2017 21:12
  By Dayo Johnson
  THE wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, has warned politicians in the country against politicizing the issue of women empowerment.
  Aisha BuhariAisha spoke in Akure, Ondo State capital during the first national workshop organised by the National Council for Women Societies (NCWS) on economic diversification programmes of government.
  She also accused politicians in the different political parties of paying lip service to matters that had to do with women empowerment.
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• Navy fully alert to protect Nigeria's unity - Chief of naval start vows after military declared IPOB a terrorist organization

  16-09-2017 21:11
  - The Nigerian Navy has promised to protect the unity of Nigeria- The Navy said it is fully ready to protect Nigeria's internal security from
  
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• Operation Python Dance is field training exercise – Nigerian Army

  16-09-2017 21:08
  The Nigerian Army on Saturday said the ongoing Operation Python Dance was a field training exercise.Deputy Director, Public Relations 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Enugu, Col.
  
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• …are our Armed Forces evolving with speed and urgency? – Buhari

  16-09-2017 21:06
  By Johnbosco AgbakwuruPresident Muhammadu Buhari has advised officers and men of the Nigerian Armed Forces to explore more scientific ways of dealing with current security challenges in the country.
  President Muhammadu BuhariThe President who gave the advice on Saturday at the combined passing out parade of Regular set 64 and 65 as well as Course 44 of the Short Service, Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA Kaduna urged the military to keep faith with democracy
  President Buhari represented at the occas
  
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• Governor Okorocha rubbishes Biafra agitation

  16-09-2017 21:04
  Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has declared that his “community and identity is Nigeria.”He said no Igbo man would support secession or division of
  
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• Team Delta wins 3rd National Youth Games

  16-09-2017 21:01
  Defending champions Team Delta on Saturday in Ilorin won the third edition of the National Youth Games (NYG), after gathering 22 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze medals.
  Team Akwa Ibom came second with 16 gold, 15 silver and 15 bronze medals, while Ondo State finished third with 12 gold, 12 silver and 12 bronze medals.
  *DalongHosts Kwara which finished third last year with 8 gold, 7 silver and 6 bronze medals dropped one place to fourth with 10 gold, 10 silver and 9 bronze medals.
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• PDP tasks S/East Governors on IPOB

  16-09-2017 20:57
  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), National Caretaker Committee, has advised leaders in the South-East to take actions to allay fears and address grievances of the people within the region.
  The National Publicity Secretary, Mr Dayo Adeyeye, gave the advice in an interview with newsmen on Saturday in Abuja.
  Adeyeye granted the interview when he received a delegation of Communists Party of China led by Dong Weihua, who visited the party.
  “I believe that IPOB may have been allowed to be an o
  
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• Nigerians must never turn on each other – Goodluck Jonathan

  16-09-2017 20:40
  By Nwafor Sunday
  Ex-President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Friday, said that Nigerians must never turn against each other irrespective of whatever provocation that might spur them and equally call on the Council of State to intervene on IPOB and Operation Python dance (11) in the South East.
  Former President Goodluck JonathanSpeaking on the need to co-exist amongst each other Jonathan said that “In as much as there may be a need to enforce order, there is a greater need to reinforce our h
  
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• Anybody found with Biafra flag ‘ll be arrested – Abia CP

  16-09-2017 20:36
  BY UGOCHUKWU ALARIBEABA – Abia State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Anthony Ogbizi has warned that anybody found with Biafra emblem will be arrested and charged to court.Ogbizi who stated this while parading 7 suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, explained that with the proscription of the group by the South East governors, it has becomes illegal for anyone to operate under IPOB or adorn Biafra emblems.He lamented that one of the injured officers, an Assistant Superinte
  
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• Greeks commemorate murder that sparked neo-Nazi probe

  16-09-2017 20:35
  Hundreds of people joined an anti-racism protest in Athens on Saturday held to commemorate the shock murder of an anti-fascist rapper in 2013 by a member of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn.
  Rapper Pavlos Fyssas’s death sparked an investigation into the actions of Golden Dawn, which until then had not been sanctioned despite being linked to a campaign of violence against migrants and political opponents.
  Nearly 70 members and supporters of the violently xenophobic and anti-Semitic formation
  
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• Buhari: 'President did more for Bayelsa than Jonathan,' GEJ's kinsman says

  16-09-2017 20:26 via pulse.ng
  He said made sure that some persons from Bayelsa were given a license to build refinery and were awarded oil blocks. Former Senator, Mr. Clever Ikisipo, has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari's efforts to develop the Niger Delta region, especially Bayelsa State.Ikisikpo, who is a kinsman to former President Goodluck Jonathan, said Buhari did what Jonathan failed to do for the people of Bayelsa.The Senator stated this on Saturday, September 16, when students' representatives from Bayelsa East Dist
  
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•  Operation Python Dance is field training exercise – Army

  16-09-2017 20:22
  Ihuoma Chiedozie, EnuguThe Nigerian Army on Saturday said the ongoing Operation Python Dance was a field training exercise.Deputy Director, Public Relations 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Enugu, Col. Sagir Musa, disclosed this in a statement which was made available to journalists in Enugu.Sagir said the operation was not targeted at anybody.The statement read, “The 82 Division, Nigerian Army, is currently on a field training exercise code-named exercise EGWU EKE II (Python Dance).&
  
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• Harry Redknapp sacked by Birmingham

  16-09-2017 20:22
  Veteran manager Harry Redknapp was sacked by second-tier Birmingham City on Saturday after a 3-1 home defeat by Preston, the club announced.
  Harry Redknapp The 70-year-old, whose coaching career has included Tottenham Hotspur and Portsmouth, was briefly hailed as a saviour after he kept Birmingham in the division last term having taken over following a disastrous spell in charge by Italian Gianfranco Zola.
  However, despite an influx of players in the close season, Birmingham suffered a sixt
  
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• Bundesliga: Stuttgart’s Gentner swallows tongue, saved by doctor

  16-09-2017 20:18
  Only the quick thinking of VfB Stuttgart’s team doctor rescued captain Christian Gentner, who swallowed his tongue in a horror clash in Saturday’s Bundesliga game against Wolfsburg.Gentner
  Genter was left bloodied after Wolfsburg goalkeeper Koen Casteels’ knee caught the midfielder on the head late in the 1-0 home victory.
  Gentner swallowed his tongue in the collision and only the fast reactions of Stuttgart doctor Raymond Best, who ran onto the pitch, prevented a tragedy.
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• Nigeria’s unity non-negotiable – Osinbajo

  16-09-2017 20:17
  Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday in Yola, reinstated the commitment of the Federation Government to keep one, indivisible Nigeria.
  Osinbajo made the commitment while speaking at the reception in Yola in honour of the new President of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), the Most Reverend Musa Filibus.
  The vice-president, therefore, urged Nigerians to sustain the unity which he said was the dream of the fore fathers of the country.
  According to him, Christians are encouraged to pursue jus
  
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• Police hunting other potential suspects in London attack

  16-09-2017 20:14
  British police said Saturday they were keeping an “open mind” as to whether more than one person could have been behind a bomb attack on a London Underground train that injured 30 people.
  A police forensics officer works alongside an underground tube train at a platform at Parsons Green underground tube station in west London on September 15, 2017, following an incident on an underground tube carriage at the station.
  Police and ambulance services said they were responding to an &ldqu
  
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• France 2018 Qualifiers: Falconets defeat Tanzania 3-0

  16-09-2017 20:14
  The Falconets on Saturday in Benin defeated visiting Tanzania 3-0 in the first round first leg match of the Africa qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup in France.
  Newsmen report that two goals from striker Rasheedat Ajibade and a goal by defender Lilian Rule removed the steam from the visitors in the match.
  The three goals calmed the nerves of the home fans and supporters, who became restless as the Falconets wasted so many goal scoring chances.
  In the match played at th
  
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• Photos: Northern youths dress in Igbo attire, preach peace in Kano streets

  16-09-2017 20:09
  Photos trending on social media allegedly show some northern youths, dressed in Igbo cultural attire, and, as a way of showing patriotism,held out the olive branch to other Nigerians of Igbo extraction by preaching peace and cohesion. The youths, reportedly, went round some streets in Kano state to demonstrate the oneness of every Nigerian in Nigeria regardless of ethnic, religious or otherwise background.
  This is coming at a time and, most expediently, when reports of some clashes between indig
  
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• Buhari to military: You must defeat ideologies of mindless killings

  16-09-2017 20:08
  As 689 new officers were commissioned into the armed forces on Saturday, President Muhammadu Buhari has told the military that they must defeat the ideologies
  
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• IPOB does not mean good for Igbo, Igwe Egbuna Obijiaku says

  16-09-2017 20:05
  The Eze Igbo in Zamfara State, Igwe Egbuna Obijiaku, has said that the agitation for secession by the Indigenous People of Biafra does not mean good for Igbo, because it was aimed at disrupting the peace and stability of the country.
  He also commended the South East Governors’ Forum for outlawing the activities of the IPOB.
  Obijiaku, who gave the commendation on Saturday while speaking to newsmen in Gusau, said that Igbo in Zamfara were not in support of the activities of IPOB.
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• Nigerians react to the rise in cross-dressing among men in Nigeria

  16-09-2017 20:03
  Some residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Saturday expressed surprise by the rise in the number and societal acceptance of cross-dressed men across
  
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• I don’t want to see another war in Nigeria - Obasanjo

  16-09-2017 19:57
  Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has warned against the present tension in the country degenerating into a war situation.Obasanjo spoke while responding to the wave of
  
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• Rochas Okorocha disses Biafra, says ‘My community and my identity is Nigeria’

  16-09-2017 19:37
  Gibson Achonu, Owerri
  Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has declared that his “community and identity is Nigeria.”
  He said no Igbo man would support secession or division of the country, adding that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra’s leader, Nnamdi Kanu, should be treated as a single individual.
  He said this is because well-meaning Igbo people have condemned Indigenous People of Biafra in all ramifications.
  Okorocha spoke on Saturday, in Owerri, at the new yam
  
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• Delta State ULC directs members to proceed on indefinite strike

  16-09-2017 19:36
  DELTA State council of United Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC,has directed all affiliates in Delta to immediately commence total withdrawal of its services
  
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• Nigerians endorse President Buhari ahead of 2019 elections - Poll results

  16-09-2017 19:34
  A recent poll conducted by NAIJ.com on social media, has shown that many Nigerians believe President Muhammadu Buhari is fit to rule the country in
  
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• No reasonable Igbo man is asking for secession, says Okorocha

  16-09-2017 19:32
  Governor Rochas Okorocha has said that no reasonable Igboman would support secession or division of the Country, adding that the IPOB leader should be treated
  
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• FG warns International Community to steer clear Nigeria’s internal problem

  16-09-2017 19:30
  The Federal Government has warned
  the International Community against interfering in Nigeria‘s internal problem.This warning follows the ongoing
  battle by the government to flush out the Indigenous
  
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