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Dec

26

2022

Christmas: Peter Obi celebrates with displaced persons in Nigeria IDPs camp

Lifestyle, Metro, News, Politics, Sponsored2023, IDPs, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Peter Obi, Politics, Security

The Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi celebrated Christmas at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Abagana, Makurdi, on Sunday, calling on the Federal Government to resettle the IDPs. Obi told the IDPs that their plight would not continue, adding that they should have hope they would soon return to their ancestral homes. “As long as you remain here in the camp, Nigeria is not doing well. It is my desire that you will leave this camp and continue to do what you know best to do, which is farming. “As long as you remain in the IDP…

Dec

26

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

2023: Sheikh Gumi urges Nigerians to vote leaders who won’t fight bandits – [VIDEO]

Lifestyle, Metro, News, Opinion, Politics2023, Bandits, Boko Haram, Crime, Metro, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics, Security, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi

With less than 90 days to the 2023 elections, popular Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has told Nigerians to vote for those who will not fight bandits if elected into office. In a sermon, the controversial Islamic cleric urged Nigerians to vote for leaders who would negotiate with bandits when elected into office. Describing bandits as “our people,” Gumi said Nigeria’s next set of leaders should negotiate and give bandits what they want for peace to reign. “Don’t vote for those who will fight bandits. The fighters (bandits) are our people. So please vote for those who, after attaining power,…

Dec

22

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

The OBI-DATTI Campaign, Doyin Okupe And The High Moral Ground Of Project Take Back Nigeria.

News, Opinion, Politics2023, Labour Party, Next Level, Nigeria, Nwaokobia Jnr, Opinion, Peter Obi, Politics, Security

Of the four leading Presidential Candidates seeking the High Office of President come 2023 only one has great bragging rights to integrity, only one can boast of unimpeachable credibility, and clearly Peter Gregory Obi is the proverbial Caesar's Wife who must be above board, and indeed Peter Obi is above board. Need I say that this position is without an ounce of equivocation? Like Archaeologists, the Leviathan the APC, and the Behemoth the PDP have been more engaged in searching for darts against Peter Obi and The Campaign than they would articulate policies that must take Nigeria out of the…

Dec

21

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Taliban bans women from attending universities in Afghanistan

Education, Lifestyle, NewsAfghanistan, Education, Taliban, World News, World Peace

The Taliban regime has announced the closure of universities to women in Afghanistan, BBC reports. A letter by the higher education minister indicated that the move is until further notice and is expected to take effect immediately. It further restricts women’s access to formal education, as they were already excluded from most secondary schools. One Kabul University student told the BBC that she had been crying since she heard the news. After the Taliban took over the mantle of leadership of the war-torn country last year, universities introduced gender-segregated classrooms and entrances, where only female students could be taught by…

Dec

21

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Truck driver kills tricycle rider, hoodlums loot rice

Lifestyle, Metro, NewsAccident, Crime, Metro, Nigeria, RIP, Security

There was tension at Itam Market in the Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State following the murder of a tricycle rider by a truck driver. Market sources told PUNCH Metro that trouble started when the Hausa truck driver, while trying to negotiate space to park for easy offloading of his bags of rice, was obstructed by the tricycle operator and tables used by traders to display their wares, resulting in a traffic snarl. It was gathered that in the ensuing confusion, the driver climbed down from his truck with a machete, which he used on the tricycle rider, who died…