LATEST NEWS IN NIGERIA THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, JUNE 15TH, 2021
Good evening and welcome to latest news updates for this evening, Tuesday, June 15th, 2021.
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1. Insecurity: Bakassi Boys Returns To South-East
They have been blamed for extrajudicial killings. Their objectives are suspected negligible cheats, furnished looters, ceremonial executioners, killers, degenerate people, and by and large, anybody thought about evil. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Ikenga Tochukwu, in any case, said he didn’t know about the CONTINUE READING
2. ECOWAS Court Serves President Buhari Hearing Notice Over Twitter Ban
They sued Buhari for criminalisation of Nigerians and other people using Twitter, and the escalating repression of human rights, particularly the rights to freedom of expression, access to information, and media freedom in the country.” In the suit No ECW/CCJ/APP/23/21 filed 8 June before the CONTINUE READING
3. See Photo As Ekiti University Students Beat Suspected Armed Robber To Death
The students were said to have mobilised and confronted the robbers when they tried to cart away their valuables such as laptops, phones and other items. While other suspects managed to escape with the stolen items, Oluwasola was captured by the irate students and CONTINUE READING
4. Biafra: What Was Her Identity? (Part 1)
Years ago, out of extreme circumstances was a nation born. Harsh as these circumstances were this nation came into being through the instruments of succession as a means of survival. Ironically these people who had opted to secede had prior to this period acted as the cement that kept the CONTINUE READING
5. Biafra: What Was Her Identity (Part 2)
Let me first punt on the heroics, and I will do that on all sides. I will recall the sheer brilliance of the Biafran Army and her people; her ingenuity as well as her resilience in the three years of fighting against such odds leaves her a worthy place in the annals of chilvary and warfare. I cannot forget the CONTINUE READING
6. Release Political Prisoners Or Forget Anambra Election – Biafra Group Tells South East Governors
The group noted that their members had been held in various prisons across the southeast especially in Onitsha and Awka Correctional Centers, where dozens of their members had been held for over 15 years without trial. A statement issued in Enugu on Monday by the CONTINUE READING
7. How Nnamdi Kanu Hired United States Firm To Lobby For Biafra
The agreement, which took effect from March 1, 2021, came months after an earlier one struck by Kanu with another U.S.-based lobbying entity, Mercury Public Affairs LLC, expired. Under the old contract, IPOB, through Kanu, paid $85,000 per month beginning September 23, 2019, in addition to CONTINUE READING