‘God will bring Biafra by himself,’ Traditional ruler assures IPOB leader
Chief Okoye also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to leave Kanu alone to go and look after his family.
Nnamdi Kanu, director of the banned Radio Biafra, was detained by secret police on 17 October and accused of terrorism.
The traditional Prime Minister of Igboland (Onowu Igbo), ChiefMichael Ozua Okoye has assured the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu that God himself will bring Biafra to actualization.
Chief Okoye also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to leave Kanu alone to go and look after his family, according to Vanguard.
The traditional ruler is said to have made the
comments on Wednesday, February 17, 2016, while speaking to journalists
in Onitsha.
“God will bring Biafra by Himself, So, Kanu should endure what we and Ojukwu endured before, during and after the civil war,”Okoye said.
He also described Kanu as a true son of Ndigbo who acted based on what he read about self-determination.
Kanu has been charged with treason and is currently being held at the Kuje Prison in Abuja.
A 67 year-old Lebanese has been allegedly slaughtered by his close
associate in Kano. The State Commissioner of police, Muhammad Musa
Katsina on Tuesday said, the incident occurred at the deceased resident located at Unity Road of Kano Central Business District.
The Police boss said that 4 suspects have already been arrested in
connection with the gruesome murder of the Lebanese, adding that “they
have so offered useful information”.
Details of the incident, Mr. Katsina said would be made public in due
course. A similar incident occurred last week where unknown assailants
slaughtered one Kabir Umar Gumel in his Yakasai home in the municipality
barely 4 days he was declared missing by the family.
Read What Obasanjo Said About Buhari in Uganda as He Monitors Election (Photos)
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo
is serving as the Chair of the Commonwealth Observer Group at the
Ugandan Presidential election currently holding today, 18th of February.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, while speaking from Uganda on the Hausa Service of the BBC monitored in Jos defined President Muhammadu Buhari as a man of his words.
Obasanjo also disclosed that he does not visit Buhari at will, “No, I am the one looking for him but he did not give me the permission to see him.”
Former president added that the current fight against corruption
embarked upon by Buhari was on the right course, saying he is in support
of the fight.
“I support the fight against corruption of the incumbent administration.
Buhari had prior to 2015 election vowed to fight corruption and he is
doing it. We are seeing how he is collecting the stolen money from
corrupt officials,”Obasanjo said.
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Details of Diezani’s Foreign Diplomatic Passport Revealed in Interview with Dominica Officials
While writing in the Huffington
Post, a prominent journalist interviewed two officials from the
Commonwealth of Dominica government on the citizenship status of the
former Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources.
Journalist, Till Bruckner, writing in the Huffington Post, interviewed two
officials from the Caribbean nation, the Commonwealth of Dominica
government on the citizenship status of the former Minister of Petroleum
Resources Diezani Alison-Madueke.
The Commonwealth of Dominica, like many small nations, allows for
people who invest in the Dominican economy to receive citizenship under
the law. This practice, which has been growing in popularity worldwide,
is a major source of foreign direct investment into the Dominica,
according to the reporting by Mr. Bruckner.
Vince Henderson, Dominica’s permanent representative to the United
Nations, and Emmanuel Nanthan, the head of the country’s Citizenship by
Investment Unit, were interviewed on questions surrounding Dominica’s
Citizenship Programme and its efforts to increase foreign direct
investment.
The issuance of diplomatic passports to non-citizens is a crucial
aspect of the program as it encourages various foreign business leaders
to serve as “ambassadors” for the Dominica, according to the Dominican
officials.
Mr. Bruckner questioned the ethics and practice of granting these
passports, citing Mrs. Alison-Madueke as an example of a passport holder
who clearly is corrupt.
Both Mr. Nanthan and Mr. Henderson argued that the Dominica
government followed its due diligence before issuing Mrs. Alison-Madueke
her passport.
However, the embattled former minister was given her passport only 6
days after meeting with the Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit
in London, leading to questions about how thorough or serious her
citizenship process was.
The Dominica officials argued that Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s passport
approval process was begun long before she met Prime Minister Skerrit.
When questioned on the secrecy behind the former minister’s
appointment as the Trade and Investment Commissioner for Dominica, Mr.
Nanthan and Mr. Henderson admitted that the Dominican government should
have been more forthright regarding the appointment.
Mrs. Alison-Madueke has been in the UK receiving treatment for
cancer since former President Goodluck Jonathan left office in May 2015.
In October, she was arrested by agents of the National Crime Agency in
the UK accused of money laundering and other financial crimes.
It has also been alleged that Mrs. Alison-Madueke was planning to
flee the United Kingdom using her diplomatic Dominica passport but that
plot was spoiled when the UK authorities arrested her and suspected
accomplices.
Mrs. Alison-Madueke worked for Shell Petroleum prior to her
appointment to the cabinet of former President Umaru Yar’Adua. Upon Mr.
Yar’Adua’s death in 2010, President Jonathan appointed Mrs.
Alison-Madueke to the Petroleum Ministry. She was widely regarded as one
of the most powerful members of Mr. Jonathan’s cabinet.
Her tenure was marked by numerous questionable deals, including
controversies over billions of dollars of oil revenues that were
reportedly not deposited with the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Nigerian anti-corruption police investigators told SaharaReporters
that serious investigations and collaboration with the UK, and the US
would continue to determine the scale of corruption perpetrated by Mrs.
Alison-Madueke and her collaborators. Earlier, her husband was arrested
by agents of the anti-corruption unit accused of laundering over
$600,000 for his wife.
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome and his wife, Anita, finalize their divorce
The divorce proceeding between Chris Oyakhilome, the Senior Pastor of
Christ Embassy and his wife, Anita, has been concluded. Anita’s UK
based solicitors, Attwatters Jameson Hill, confirmed the dissolution of
their marriage on their website. Anita says she is no longer part of
Christ Embassy. Anita and Chris Oyakhilome got married in 1991 and have
two daughters.
About fifteen persons were killed by suspected cultists in Omoku,
headquarters of Ogba Egbema Ndoni local government area on Friday night.
Community sources who did not want their names in print said some of
those killed were beheaded by the assailants. They said the suspected
cultists who were heavily armed struck in the community between the
hours of 8pm till about 10pm unchallenged.
Ritual-killings The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ahmad Muhammad confirmed the
death of six in the sad incident, saying it was largely a battle for
supremacy among rival cult groups in the area. “The incident is
reasonably believed to be a battle of supremacy between rival cult
groups in the town. As it is now the situation is under control as more
anti riot policemen were drafted to reinforce the existing security in
the town. As for casualties, six dead bodies of the suspected cultists
were recovered “, he said, The shooting created tension and panic in the
council headquarters as many residents reportedly ran indoors. ” When
we came out this morning we started hearing wailing in several homes. A
man and his wife were among those killed. Some were even be headed “,
one of the sources said. This incident came barely twenty four hours a
former member of the 5th House of Assembly representing the local
government area and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress,
Hon Monday Eleanya was shot dead on Ada George road in Port Harcourt
while driving out of his compound.
Ibori: UK police chief faces probe for alleged bribery
James Ibori
A Metropolitan Police chief, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, will be grilled
by Members of Parliament this week over allegations that Scotland Yard
and the Crown Prosecution Service were involved in a ‘‘deliberate
cover-up’’ of damning evidence of police corruption.
According to the Daily Mail newspaper, a court was
told that the Met and the CPS repeatedly concealed documents suggesting
that officers, investigating a former Delta State Governor, James
Ibori, for fraud, were paid to leak details of the inquiry that could
have helped him evade justice in 2012.
The extraordinary case centres on Scotland Yard’s prosecution of
James Ibori, who once worked as a cashier at a branch of Wickes DIY
store in West London before becoming Delta State governor.
Ibori is currently serving a 13-year jail term for money laundering
in a UK prison as well as his lawyer, who was also jailed for seven
years after admitting fraud, although he claimed he was wrongly advised
to do so by his then legal team.
One detective was said to have received at least 19 unexplained cash
deposits, totalling thousands of pounds, into his bank account after
illegally disclosing sensitive information, a judge heard.
But when the corruption allegations were revealed by a
whistle-blowing lawyer, Bhadresh Gohil, he was accused of forging the
evidence and charged with perverting the course of justice.
Police privately expressed fears that his devastating claims could undermine the £50m fraud trial.
Last month, the charges against the lawyer were dramatically dropped
after the CPS was forced to produce crucial papers, which it had always
insisted did not exist, that suggest serving Met officers took bribes.
Although
the Met insists no corruption took place, the case leaves the Met
Commissioner – already under fire for his refusal to apologise for the
Yard’s disastrous historical sex abuse investigations – facing difficult
questions from the Home Affairs Select Committee this week, as he was
personally warned about the potential miscarriage of justice three years
ago.
The CPS’s handling of the case, criticised by former police as well
as the defendants, will also increase pressure on Director of Public
Prosecutions Alison Saunders, who faced calls to quit over her failure
to put Lord Janner on trial.
The Daily Mail further reports that a Met Commander, Peter
Spindler, who reported directly to Hogan-Howie, told the BBC the
corruption claims were bogus without having checked if documents were
genuine.
Gohil told The Mail on Sunday, “I uncovered serious
corruption, but when I tried to expose this, I was victimised.
Astonishingly, the CPS used the might of the state and all its resources
to cover up what had happened, and brought trumped-up charges to
persecute me. The truth has finally unravelled.”
The chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, Keith Vaz, said, “Members
have indicated they will want to ask the Commissioner, when he next
appears before the committee, to deal with the latest developments which
raise a number of new questions.”
