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Jan

27

2020

Femi Adesina: Insecurity not as bad as under Jonathan

PoliticsAll Progressives Congress, Boko Haram, Crime, Herdsmen, Mohammadu Buhari, Next Level, Opinion

Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, says despite the growing insecurity in the country, security has improved under the Buhari administration. Adesina said while the latest bomb blast at a Borno mosque is regrettable, Nigeria used to experience as many as 10 bombings in a day before President Muhammadu Buhari took over from former president Goodluck Jonathan. The presidential spokesman said this on Sunday when he appeared on a Channels TV programme. OHAFIATV News broke the story of how the bombing carried out by suspected Boko Haram insurgents killed a 12-year-old. The incident is the latest in a series of attacks in the north-east —…

Jan

27

2020

By OHAFIATV

Frederick Forsyth attacks Britain: You committed crimes against Igbo.

News, PoliticsAfrica, Biafra, Nigeria, Politics, World News

Frederick McCarthy Forsyth, the English journalist and author will be 82 this year. He was born on 25 August 1938. At such age when a man is inching closer to his grave or Maker, his conscience becomes sharper, his propensity for remorse greater. He tends to make all crooked ways straight; he confesses his sins or does so vicariously- that is, on behalf of his clan or community or country. That is exactly what Frederick Forsyth has done, blaming his country, Britain, for its bias against the Igbo during the Nigeria-Biafra war that spanned three years, 1967 to 1970.…

Jan

13

2020

By OHAFIATV

Guinea-Bissau Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Presidential Election Result

Guinea Bissau, PoliticsAfrica, Freedom, Guinea Bissau, Politics

BISSAU - Guinea-Bissau's Supreme Court on Sunday rejected a challenge against Umaro Cissoko Embalo's victory in last month's election run-off by the defeated candidate, who complained of fraud. The ruling confirms a surprise election win for Embalo, a 47-year-old former prime minister and ex-army general. He will replace outgoing Jose Mario Vaz, who was eliminated in the first round of voting in November after a five-year term marked by political dysfunction and corruption allegations. The court's ruling said runner-up Domingos Simoes Pereira, the candidate of the majority party in parliament, should have first filed his complaint with the national electoral commission,…

Dec

10

2019

By Amos Oge Kalu

Gov. Ikpeazu, Ogah, Otti Set To Grace, Receive AFN Awards

Abia State, Lifestyle, News, PoliticsAbia State, AFNews, Nigeria, Okezie Ikpeazu, Politics

The Abia State Governor Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu PhD, has praised the efforts of the Abia Facts Newspaper in maintaining balanced and objective journalism. Speaking through his Chief of Staff Dr. ACB Agbazuere, at government house Umuahia, Dr. Ikpeazu accepted his nomination as Media Friendly Governor of the year 2019 and thanked Abia Facts Newspaper for recognizing his efforts in governance. Mean while, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) gubernatorial candidate in the just concluded general election in Abia State Dr. Alex Otti and the All Progressives Congress counterpart Honorbale Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Sampson Ogah…

Nov

14

2019

By Amos Oge Kalu

BISSAU: The trend of media strangulation by American Press worrisome

Guinea Bissau, PoliticsAfrica, Politics, World News

By Comr Amos Kalu For the umpteenth time. America and her press should stop this media strangulation of Africa occasioned by bias and preconditioning of their minds based on unverified reports. It is very inconveniencing for few people to continue to psychologically blackmail Africans from thousand of miles away. Guinea Bissau What yardsticks did they use to predict the "Presumed" Prediction of the presidential outcome because have stayed here to observe over two weeks, the narratives is quite the contrary. The only thing I see here is attempt by ECOWAS to place other candidates at disadvantage in favour of a…