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WAFU Cup final: Nigeria, Ghana light up Cape Coast

West African heavyweights, Nigeria and Ghana will make the grass suffer more than a little bit when they clash in the final of the sub –regional WAFU Cup of Nations at the Cape Coast today. The Black Stars edged Niger Republic in the second semi final on Thursday to set up a date with the high –flying Super Eagles, who confined...

School dropout builds N0.7m special tricycle

…Says he will become an aeronautic engineer From NOAH EBIJE, Kaduna Jude Onah, a 24-year-old secondary school dropout caused a pleasant stir on Prince Njoku Street, Sabongari, Zaria, Kaduna State, when a large number of people in his neighbourhood rushed out to catch a glimpse of the gleaming red special tricycle he built, and which has features of a car. As Onah drove...

Lecturers turn sex predators in Ebonyi varsity

They demand sex, money in exchange for marks —Students, alumni members We’ve so many cases —VC rewind to 2014 when Miss Uloma Nkwegu (not real names) secured admission into the Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, to study Human and International Relations. Her admission into the state-owned university came after two years of unsuccessful attempts to get into one of the federal universities in the South...

IPOB: APC lawmakers issue 21-day ultimatum to FG

  Members of State Houses of Assembly, controlled by the All Progressives Congress (APC), have issued a 21-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to re-arrest the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr Nnamdi Kanu or face a nationwide protest.  Addressing newsmen in Abuja, the lawmakers said they cannot sit back and allow Kanu plunge the country into another...

FG will break DISCOS’ monopoly – Osinbajo

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the Federal Government was working to break the monopoly of electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOS) following their inefficiency in the collection of tariffs.   Osinbanjo, who said this while inaugurating the Electricity Metres Making Company in Onna, Akwa Ibom State, also said that the Federal Government has put machinery in place to ensure that electricity consumers...

Saraki, S’East senators prevented mass killing of IPOB members

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) yesterday said that the prompt intervention of the Senate President, Olusola Saraki and the South-east Senators averted the mass execution of innocent IPOB members by the Nigerian government.  Consequently, IPOB has commended the South-east caucus of the Senate and leadership of the Senate for standing firm in condemning the proscription of the group by the...

Biafra not realisable now – Primate Ayodele

The agitation by secessionist group for Republic of Biafra may not be actualised any time soon. One of Nigeria’s leading seers, Primate Babatunde Elijah Ayodele made this known in an interview with Sunday Sun shortly after the press presentation of the 2017/2018 and beyond edition of a book, “Warnings to the Nations- (a collection of divine signals). The book, a compendium of divine...

Biafra not realisable now – Primate Ayodele

The agitation by secessionist group for Republic of Biafra may not be actualised any time soon. One of Nigeria’s leading seers, Primate Babatunde Elijah Ayodele made this known in an interview with Sunday Sun shortly after the press presentation of the 2017/2018 and beyond edition of a book, “Warnings to the Nations- (a collection of divine signals). The book, a compendium of divine...

Biafra designed to be achieved without bullets – Uwazuruike

LeadER of Biafra Independence Movement and founder of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (BIM-MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, yesterday, disclosed that his organization was the first in the continent to adopt the non-violent approach in the struggle for independence, assuring that BIM-MASSOB would continue to be a role model for groups seeking self determination without resorting...

Biafra designed to be achieved without bullets – Uwazuruike

LeadER of Biafra Independence Movement and founder of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (BIM-MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, yesterday, disclosed that his organization was the first in the continent to adopt the non-violent approach in the struggle for independence, assuring that BIM-MASSOB would continue to be a role model for groups seeking self determination without resorting...