SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has disassociated itself from the new head of Radio Biafra Simon Ekpa saying he is not a member  of their Finnish branch and cannot speak on behalf of the organisation.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As you all know in 2001, the Taliban blew up the two Buddhas of Bamiyan that had been tourist attractions for centuries. Although Afghanistan no longer has a Buddhist community, the smaller 38 m Eastern Buddha was built around 570 AD and the larger 55 m Western Buddha was built around 618 AD. They were both huge tourist attractions generating income for the government

NIGERIA'S federal government is confident that it will soon be able to lift its ban on social media platform Twitter as the company has agreed to seven of the 10 demands it made including opening an office in Nigeria.

AFRICAN Independent Television (AIT) journalist Nagari Damina has been paid compensation by the Bauchi State Police Command after he was assaulted and wounded by police officers attached to the Rapid Response Squad while on official duty three weeks ago.

INSPECTOR-general of police Usman Baba has ordered investigation into the detention of a 21-year-old lady who was arrested by Intelligence Response Team (IRT) operatives in Imo State just for being the girlfriend of an Eastern Security Network (ESN) member.

EDO State government officials have condemned in strong terms the planned coronation of Idriss Addano as the Sultan of Shuwa Arabs in the state describing the planned move as sacrilegious and a threat to peace and security.

YORUBA Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo is now planning to apply for political asylum in France and the Republic of Benin and stay in whichever country grants him a right of residency until the end of President Muhammadu Buhari's tenure and then return to Nigeria.

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[1] Nigeria currently spends $8bn a year out of her paltry $33bn annual budget subsidising petrol marketers. As a nation we simply cannot afford this. One does not need to be genius to know this wasteful spending has to go. If this new bill is to be worth the paper it is written on, it has to save us every penny of this crazy subsidy

FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has expressed fears that armed bandits may soon become so accepted that they may even apply for registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and seek listing at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).

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[1] It would be nice to live in a just, fair, equitable and egalitarian world where everyone is treated as an equal. However, the reality of human existence in 2021 is that the strong dominate the weak

[2] Emily Lockhard wrote: "See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.” Basically, that means us that we have to live on the planet as it is and now how we wish it should be